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How to deploy a static website on AWS?

I bought a domain name, e.g. www.mydomain.com. Also I have the Amazon EC2 instance. I uploaded the folder with website files to /var/www/html/mywebsite.

What I want to do is to link a public DNS of the EC2 instance to www.mydomain.com. When a user opens www.mydomain.com, he/she should see what I have in /var/www/html/mywebsite of the EC2 instance.

To reach this goal, I changed the configuration of the server in EC2 instance (httpd.conf):

DocumentRoot /var/www/html/mywebsite
ServerName www.mydomain.com:80

And restarted the server sudo service httpd restart.

When I go to www.mydomain.com, I do not see the content of /var/www/html/mywebsite. Which steps have I missed?

P.S. I found many articles explaining how to deploy static websites on Amazon S3. However, I don't want to use S3.

Solution

  • Did you setup DNS so that your domains/subdomains point/connect to your AWS EC2 instance?