Questions tagged [amazon-lightsail]

QUESTIONS ABOUT SERVER ADMINISTRATION ARE OFF-TOPIC. Consider https://serverfault.com for those. Virtual Private Server (VPS) platform from Amazon Web Services. NOTE: Since there are a number of OS options available on Lightsail, it will help people answer your question if you indicate what blueprint you are using.

Amazon Lightsail is a simplified and minimalistic Virtual Private Server (VPS) platform, part of the Amazon Web Sevices infrastructure. Questions about professional server administration should typically be posted on Server Fault.

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CodeDeploy onpremise registration failing with AccessDeniedException on Amazon Lightsail

aws deploy register-on-premises-instance --instance-name XXXXX --iam-user-arn arn:aws:iam::XXXXXXXXXXXX:user/LightSailCodeDeployUser --region ap-south-1 An error occurred (AccessDeniedException) when calling the RegisterOnPremisesInstance operation:…
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How do I use a EC2 load balancer with AWS Lightsail instance?

I am trying to install a wildcard certificate in my AWS lightsail instance load balancer. But the Lightsail instance does not allow wildcard certificate. Although EC2 loadbalancer allows wildcard certificate. Can anyone explain how i can use EC2…
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How do I create a FTP user in Amazon Lightsail to update Wordpress Plugins

I successfully migrated a Wordpress site from BlueHost to AWS Lightsail. When I go to update the plugins, Wordpress is asking for FTP credentials (see the image). By default, you can only connect to the Lightsail instance via SSH Certificate, which…
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How to enable .htaccess in AWS Lightsail LAMP module

I am new to AWS Lightsail. I have successfully migrated my web application to a LAMP server (bitnami) and I generated SSL certificate. now I want to redirect to HTTP to HTTPS. Hence I created .htaccess and copied the below the code and restarted my…
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How to deploy dotnet core application on Ubuntu server with Nginx server?

I have a dotnet core application built on dotnet core 3.1 and when I tried to deploy the same in ubuntu 18.04 server by following the steps given in this doc but not able to access the app on port 80 (accessing through public IP) Here is the Nginx…
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Is there a way to assign multiple static IPs to an Amazon Lightsail instance?

I am currently using Amazon Lightsail to provide Wordpress Multisite Hosting for a couple of my clients, but I'm running into an issue. I am working with the following technologies: 1) Wordpress Multisite (2 installations on the same server) 2)…
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Does an AWS Lightsail database instance support multiple databases?

I am trying to understand exactly what a "Database" is within Amazon Lightsail. I've attempted to research this as much as possible through Google and various forums, but information on this particular issue seems limited. My impression (and hope)…
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How to create AWS Lightsail instance from EC2 snapshot?

One of my AWS EC2 instances would be a better fit for Lightsail (and more cost-effective). Is there a way to create a Lightsail instance based from an EBS snapshot?
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What is the difference between AWS lightsail vs codeStar

I am exploring options to quickly deploy and start a project on AWS stack. And I came across above two services, "LightSail" and "CodeStar". I could not find any comparison of these two services from internet. Hence would like to know more about…
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wordpress : How to specify the cause "This site can’t be reached"

I have used Let's Encrypt for WordPress on AWS Lightsail. I found that it was expired because I didn't renew it. So I tried the Let's encrypt to renew, the bitnami guide https://docs.bitnami.com/aws/how-to/generate-install-lets-encrypt-ssl/ and…
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"Error while running apache2ctl graceful" Let's Encrypt on AWS Lightsail Bitnami

Being the resident tech in the family I'm helping with launching the new family business website. My experience is extremely limited when it comes to coding and web development (I made a basic html/css website in high school). Please bear with me So…
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How to setup email with AWS Lightsail

I've recently hosted my wordpress website through AWS Lightsail. The site has a contact form and a newsletter, but neither are working. I'm also unable to send a password reset email through wordpress, receiving a message that the host may have…
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Unable to access amazon RDS mysql instance from lightsail instance

I am new to AWS and not a network admin, mere a developer, and need your help. I am unable to connect to my aws RDS (mysql) from my lightsail ubuntu instance. when trying to connect, it just wait for a minute and then fails. I am unable to ping my…
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Is WP-CLI incompatible with Bitnami's Wordpress install on AWS Lightsail?

Using a new instance of Wordpress on Ubuntu, I installed wp-cli via these instructions. I tried downloading the .phar package, chmodding it, etc.I also tried installing a .deb package. In both cases I get the same errors when running wp plugin…
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Lightsail versus Lambda + S3

May sound like a strange question, but bear with me here. I need to build a small web project. For the sake of making it free, I was going to host the front end portion on S3 as a static site, and have it invoke server side functions by making AJAX…