Configuring NGinX Web Server on Linux for free with Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Side Study

Published: 19 January 2017
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In this video, we will show you how you can configure your first server with Amazon Web Services.

Firstly we will give you a little knowledge about Amazon Web Services also known as AWS. AWS is leading cloud service provider. It provides lots of managed cloud services to developers. To use their services you have to register your account with AWS. Also, you will get 12 months of free access to limited AWS resources.

If your account is new and you are following our video, you will not be charged anything as we have used all the free tier eligible options in the video. But be alert, because changing any of the options will charge you bills.


Here is the full explanation of the video:

1. Login to AWS management console at http://console.aws.amazon.com

2. Launch an ec2 instance as shown in video. Remeber if you are using free tier and don't want to pay for instance use consider using t2.micro.

3. Connect to your ec2-instance with help of putty.

4. Run following commands in order:

a. sudo yum update
b. sudo yum install nginx
c. sudo service nginx start

5. Now these 4 commands has installed and started your server.

6. You can host your files in /usr/share/nginx/html


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