• For Linux: Connect to your Linux instance via port no. 22 using SSH. Please refer this article: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AccessingInstancesLinux.html  Sign-in credentials: Username: ubuntu

• Required Laravel prerequisites with their latest versions are installed here:

1. To verify the installed version of composer composer --version Composer version 2.5.8

2. To verify the installed version of php php -v PHP 8.2.7

3. To verify the installed version of apache2 apache2 -v Server version: Apache/2.4.41 (Ubuntu)

4. To verify the installed version of mysql mysql --version mysql Ver 8.0.33

• To verify the installed version of laravel please run below commands,

1. cd /var/www/html/laravelapp
2. php artisan --version

• Here we have installed Laravel with composer using create-project command in the path of Apache default root directory /var/www/html. For demo purpose we have created "laravelapp" project, you can created new project using following commands,

1. go into the require path, cd /var/www/html
2. Now, install Laravel using the composer command, type, sudo composer create-project laravel/laravel laravelapp note:here laravelapp is a demo project we have created. The command creates a new directory called laravelapp and installs all the files and directories for Laravel.
3. Change the ownership of the Laravel directory to the webserver user and also the permissions: sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/laravelapp sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/html/laravelapp/storage note: Feel free to replace laravelapp with a preferred directory name.
4. Once the installation is done navigate to the installation directory and check the Laravel version. cd laravelapp
5. Run the command to ckeck the lavavel installed version and additional commands. php artisan --version

• Configure Apache to serve Laravel site:

• Lastly, we need to set up the Apache webserver to host the Laravel site. For that to happen, we need to create a virtual host file. cd sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/laravel.conf

• Next, paste the content shown and replace the ServerName directive with the public IP of the server.

<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName example.com ServerAdmin admin@example.com  DocumentRoot /var/www/html/laravelapp/public <Directory /var/www/html/laravelapp> AllowOverride All </Directory> ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined </VirtualHost>

• Save the changes and exit the file. Next, enable the Laravel site and Apache rewrite module using these two commands.

  sudo a2ensite laravel.conf sudo a2enmod rewrite

• To apply the changes, restart Apache. sudo systemctl restart apache2

• To access Laravel from a browser: Finally, to access Laravel visit your server's public IP address. The default Laravel webpage will be displayed.

• Below are the minimum external resources subscriber needs to have to use this product: -An Internet Connection is required in order for this product to function as expected. -We recommend keeping your crucial data in a custom made encrypted EBS in order to save from termination in future.