How to setup cakePHP site on Amazon Web Services

Question

Does anybody know how to get started hosting a cakePHP on Amazon Web Services, if that is even the correct service, or if it is even possible. I have seen a few articles that refer to being able to do this. AWS seems like a pretty full feature set, without a lot of guidance.

I am specifically would like to get Cake Baked on AWS with Amazon RDS. Just getting the default dite up and running would be enough.

I have seen these links as well as a few others, but I haven't found any basic how-to information.

https://github.com/joebeeson/amazon

Hosting CakePHP app with Amazon Web Services (EC2, etc.)?

Thanks,

James

Answer 1

Everything works -- I have several cakephp sites on AWS. I will warn you there are a lot of annoying little bugs and hurdles with AWS though.

You'll need to understand two things -- how to use AWS and how to configure a server from scratch. If you've never configured a server from zero, I'd highly recommend going with another host.

Answer 2

As you stated I don't know any how-to guide on exactly that, and it is basically because any server that can run PHP 5.3 with mod_rewrite works great. I recommend you to follow any tutorial to get a server on Amazon AWS and then just download cake on the server with wget.