Appendix E. Installing a ZF3 Web Application to Amazon EC2

Once you have developed a ZF3-based website, you'll need to install it on some publicly acessible web server to make it visible to other people.

If you want to install a Zend Framework 3 based web application, but do not have a web server yet, this tutorial is for you. In this tutorial, we will show how to create a virtual Linux machine in the Amazon Web Services Cloud for free and how to install the Hello World application on that machine.

• What is Amazon Web Services?
• Creating Amazon Web Services Account
• Creating a Key Pair
• Launching EC2 Linux Instance
  • Step 1 – Choose an Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
  • Step 2 — Choose an Instance Type
  • Step 3 — Configure Instance
  • Step 4 — Add Storage
  • Step 5 — Tag Instance
  • Step 6 — Security Group
  • Step 7 — Review Instance Launch
• Assigning an IP Address to the Instance
• Connecting to EC2 Instance through SSH
• Installing Apache HTTP Server and PHP Engine
• Installing the Hello World Web Application
  • Creating Virtual Host
  • Installing Zend Framework 3 with Composer
• Results
• Summary