This guide will walk you through setting up an Amazon Lightsail instance with a LAMP stack using PHP 8, and configuring it to deploy a PHP application from GitHub with database setup.

If you haven't already, create an Amazon Lightsail account at AWS Lightsail.

1. Click on Create instance in the Lightsail dashboard.

2. Choose your preferred Availability Zone (e.g., eu-west-1).

3. Select Linux/Unix platform and choose LAMP (PHP 8) as your blueprint.

4. Click on +Add launch script and paste the following script into the launch script text window.

# Remove default website
cd /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs 
rm -rf *

# Clone GitHub repo
git clone -b loft https://github.com/mikegcoleman/todo-php .

# Set write permissions on the settings file
sudo chown bitnami:daemon connectvalues.php
chmod 666 connectvalues.php

# Inject database password into configuration file
sed -i.bak "s/<password>/$(cat /home/bitnami/bitnami_application_password)/;" /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs/connectvalues.php

# Create database
cat /home/bitnami/htdocs/data/init.sql | /opt/bitnami/mariadb/bin/mysql -u root -p$(cat /home/bitnami/bitnami_application_password)

5. Click on Enter a name for your instance and choose Create instance

6. Wait for the instace to go into running state and access it via the IP