How to build and Deploy an E-Commerce Platform with Git-Linux-and-AWS

Project Description:

To develop an e-commerce website for a new online marketplace name "Agate Interior". This platform will feature product listings, a shopping cart, and user authentication.

Task:

1. To utilize Git for version control, develop the platform in a Linux environment, and deploy it on an AWS EC2 instance.
2. Continous integration and development workflow
3. Developing New features and fixes
4. Version Control with Git
5. Pull Requests and Merging to ain branch
6. Deploying Updates to the Production Server
7. Testing the new changes

Step 1:

Initialize Git Repository

• Create a new Repository

• Copy SSH/HTTP (depending on the one you use best)

• Clone the Repo
  git clone "Paste the URL"

• Confirm it has been successfully downloaded into your local Repo

## Step 2:

Obtain and Prepare the E-Commerce Website Template

Instead of developing the website from scratch, use a pre-existing e-commerce website template

• Download A website template from (https://www.tooplate.com/) or any website template hub you know

• Extract the Downloaded template into your project Directory that you've created

• Customize the template if you have a basic web development skill. (I Tailored mine to Agate Interior)

## Step 3:

Stage and Commit the Template to Git

• Run ls to confirm the directory
• git add "Directory_name" to stage the codes

• Run git status to see if it's successfully staged

• Run git commit -m "your message" to commit your code

• git push / git push -u origin main to push your code to your remote Repo

• Go to your Github to confirm the changes

## Step 4:

AWS Deployment

To deploy, you'll start by setting up an Amazon EC2 instance

• Log in to the AWS Management Console

• Launch An EC2 Instance Using an Amazon Linux AMI

• Remember to download a key pair

• Connect to the to your local Repo using SSH
• Copy the URL

You have successfully launched an EC2

## Step 5:

Connect and Clone the repository on the Linux Server

You need to clone the GitHub repository to your AWS EC2 instance. This process involves authenticating with GitHub using SSH

• Open your Local Server
• Paste the URL copied from your EC2 to connect your local server to the remote server

• Run ssh-keygen to generate an SSH keypair

• Press enter to use the default file directory and passphrase

• Run cat /home/ec2-user/.ssh/id_rsa.pub (copy the content)

• Navigate to your Repository in GitHub Console, click on settings

• Navigate to SSH and GPG key, create a new SSH key

• Paste the Copied content, and add the SSH key

Install git on your EC2 server if you have it installed

To check if it is installed or not

• Run which git

• To install, run sudo yum install git

Clone the Repository

• Navigate back to Repo and copy the SSH URL

• Clone Repo

## Step 6:

Install a Web Server on EC2

Apache HTTP Scerver

Installing it on Linux EC2 server allows you to host "Agate Interior"

• Install the Apache web server on the EC2 instance.

sudo yum update -y
sudo yum install httpd -y
sudo systemctl start httpd
sudo systemctl enable httpd

• Configure httpd for the website

sudo rm -rf /var/www/html/*
sudo cp -r ~Agate_interior/* /var/www/html/

• Reload httpd

sudo systemctl reload httpd

Step 7:

Success Website from browser

• Open a web browser and access the public IP of your EC2 instance to view the deployed website

## Step 8:

Continuous Integration and Deployment Workflow

• Developing New Features and fixes

• git checkout -b Development to create a new branch

• Make your New development

• Stage your Edit

git add "index.html"
git commit -m "your message"
git push

• Go to your GitHub

• Git pull

Step 8:

Deploying Updates to the Production Server

• Pull the latest changes on the Server

• Follow and study the code

• Code Updated

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