Installing Yii2 on Graviton Servers

Steps to configure EC2 instance

Create EC2 instance

1. Login to AWS console
2. Go to Services > EC2 > Instances > Launch Instances
3. Select Amazon Linux 2 64-Bit ARM
4. Select instance type and click next to launch the instance.

Configure EC2 instance

To configure the instance SSH into the EC2 instance and follow the steps below

1. Install Apache, PHP and other dependencies

   yum update
   amazon-linux-extras install epel
   amazon-linux-extras install php7.4
   yum install httpd php-ctype php-mbstring php-intl php-fpm php-zip php-xml php-gd php-imagick php-curl php-memcache php-opcache php-bcmath php-soap php-apcu php-pdo php-pdo_mysql

2. Install imagick

   yum install php-pear
   yum install php-devel
   yum install gcc
   yum install ImageMagick
   yum install ImageMagick-devel
   pecl install imagick
   echo "extension=imagick.so" > /etc/php.d/imagick.ini
   service httpd restart

3. Open /etc/php.ini and edit the following lines

   expose_php = off
   session.use_strict_mode = 1
   max_execution_time = 180
   memory_limit = 512M

4. Open /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and edit the following lines

   # Supplemental configuration
   <IfModule mpm_event_module>
       ServerLimit             500
       StartServers            100
       MinSpareThreads          75
       MaxSpareThreads         250
       ThreadLimit              16
       ThreadsPerChild           8
       MaxRequestWorkers       4000
       MaxConnectionsPerChild 10000
   </IfModule>
   KeepAliveTimeout 600
   MaxKeepAliveRequests 500
   TimeOut 600
   ServerSignature Off
   ServerTokens Prod
   
   # Load vhost configs
   IncludeOptional conf.d/vhosts/*.conf

   Commnt out in file conf.modules.d/00-mpm.conf: LoadModule mpm_prefork_module modules/mod_mpm_prefork.so and uncomment : LoadModule mpm_event_module modules/mod_mpm_event.so

5. Run mkdir /etc/httpd/conf.d/vhosts/.

6. Edit '/etc/httpd/conf.d/vhosts/test.conf'.

   <VirtualHost *:80>
   # ServerName [domain].samarth.ac.in
   # ServerAlias www.[domain].samarth.ac.in
   # RequestHeader set "Host" "[domain].samarth.ac.in"
   DocumentRoot /var/www/html/
   CustomLog /var/log/httpd/access_log combined
   ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/error.log
   <Directory  />
   Options FollowSymlinks
           DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
           AllowOverride All
           Require all granted
   </Directory>
   <LocationMatch "^(.*\.php)$">
           ProxyPass       unix:/var/run/php-fpm/www.sock|fcgi://localhost/var/www/html/
           DirectoryIndex /index.php index.php
   </LocationMatch>
   </VirtualHost>

7. Check Syntax httpd -t

8. open /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf

   pm.max_children = 150
   pm.start_servers = 30
   pm.min_spare_servers = 20
   pm.max_spare_servers = 70

9. Check syntax php-fpm -t

10. Restart apache and php-fpm

    service php-fpm start
    service httpd start

11. Add apache and php-fpm to auto restart

    chkconfig httpd on
    chkconfig php-fpm on

12. Create test files in /var/www/html

13. Change the timezone

    rm /etc/localtime
    ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Kolkata /etc/localtime

14. Install yum-cron

    yum install yum-cron

15. Edit /etc/yum/yum-cron.conf file

    change the folowing line: apply_updates=no to apply_updates=yes

16. Go to http://[ec2-pblic-ip]/test.html and http://[ec2-pblic-ip]/test.php to check if everything is working.

Note: The pre-configured AMI is ami-05579e96af93dc54a.

tip

Warnings while performing composer update with Php7.2+ need to resolved after thorough testing.

1. Package phpoffice/phpexcel is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use phpoffice/phpspreadsheet instead.
2. Package swiftmailer/swiftmailer is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use symfony/mailer instead.
3. Package codeception/base is abandoned, you should avoid using it. No replacement was suggested.
4. Package phpunit/php-token-stream is abandoned, you should avoid using it. No replacement was suggested.
5. Package phpunit/phpunit-mock-objects is abandoned, you should avoid using it. No replacement was suggested.