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• An AWS account
• Basic knowledge of SSH and command-line operations
• A domain name (optional, but recommended for SSL)

1. Go to the AWS Management Console.
2. Launch an EC2 instance with Ubuntu 24.04 as the AMI.
3. Choose an instance type (e.g., t2.micro).
4. Configure security group to allow HTTP (port 80), HTTPS (port 443), and SSH (port 22) traffic.

Use AWS Console

Use SSH to connect to your instance. (Terminal or Putty)

ssh -i your-key.pem ubuntu@your-ec2-instance-ip

Create a new user and follow prompts

adduser chandima

Add user to superuser group to unlock admin privileges

usermod -aG sudo chandima

change user

su - chandima

cd ~ && sudo apt-get update -y && sudo apt-get upgrade -y && sudo apt-get install nginx -y && sudo ufw allow 'Nginx Full' && sudo apt-get install mysql-server -y && sudo apt-get install ufw -y && sudo apt install certbot python3-certbot-nginx -y && cd ~ && curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.3/install.sh | bash && source ~/.bashrc && nvm install v18.13.0 && npm install ghost-cli@latest -g

Enter mysql

sudo mysql

mysql root password

ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH 'mysql_native_password' BY 'Strong_password';FLUSH PRIVILEGES;exit;

change permissions linux

chmod 755 /home/chandima

Create directory: Change sitename to whatever you like

sudo mkdir -p /var/www/ghost/example.com

Set directory owner: Replace user with the name of your user

sudo chown chandima:chandima /var/www/ghost/example.com

Set the correct permissions

sudo chmod 775 /var/www/ghost/example.com

Then navigate into it

cd /var/www/ghost/example.com

ghost install

navigate nginx config

cd /etc/nginx/sites-available/

file list

ls

edit nginx config

sudo nano example.com.conf

change to root user

sudo su

nginx check

nginx -t

#restart nginx system

sudo systemctl restart nginx.service

#Install SSL

sudo certbot --nginx -d example.com -d www.example.com