This is pretty cut and dry. If you want the more verbose version, head over to AWS: Building a LAMP instance on Amazon Linux.
Start an Amazon Linux instance (I default to 64 bit), and be sure the security group allows access over ports 22 and 80.
sudo su - yum update # add the AMP yum install httpd mysql mysql-server php php-mysql php-xml php-pdo php-odbc \ php-soap php-common php-cli php-mbstring php-bcmath php-ldap php-imap php-gd # Add a user and give sudo privs useradd someUser passwd someUser # Give password vim /etc/sudoers # if this is unfamiliar to you, be careful: # insert line "someUser ALL=(ALL) ALL" # Configure ssh key and disable password authentication cd /home/someUser mkdir .ssh vim .ssh/authorized_keys chown -R someUser:someUser .ssh/ chmod 700 .ssh chmod 600 .ssh/* vim /etc/ssh/ssh_config # insert line "PasswordAuthentication no" service sshd restart # Validate connection in another terminal before exiting the current session! # Primary MySQL config chkconfig mysqld on service mysqld start /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation # Root access from local only # Set a root password (that's good) # Delete test db # Delete anonymous users # Apache chkconfig on chkconfig httpd on service httpd start # Create a mysql user/schema for your site(s) # DON'T CONNECT AS ROOT FOR YOUR WEB APPS mysql -u root -p # Enter the password you set mysql> CREATE SCHEMA someAppName; mysql> GRANT ALL ON someAppName.* TO someAppName@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'somePassword';
Now you can connect with ssh, using your key and the username you configured. Use MySQL Workbench’s Standard TCP/IP over SSH connection type to tunnel to MySQL over SSH.
You will likely also want to create a key on this server and install a version control system so that you can pull code directly from your version control (you are using version control, right?!?).
I use mostly git these days, so:
ssh-keygen -t rsa sudo yum install git
Copy the public key to your version control service, and you’re good to go.