Installing Laravel on Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 makes it very easy to scale the servers that our web applications live on. This video tutorial will show you how to load up an Amazon EC2 ubuntu server and setup Apache, PHP, & MySQL on the server. I will then go through the basics of setting up the environment for a basic Laravel 4 installation.

Here is the cheat sheet of commands that I was using throughout the video:

---------- Installing Apache ----------

$ sudo apt-get install apache2

---------- Installing Latest PHP ----------

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php5
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5

---------- Installing PHP Mcrypt ext. ----------

$ sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt

---------- Installing MYSQL ----------

$sudo apt-get install mysql-server

---------- Installing GIT ----------

$ sudo apt-get install git-core

---------- Laravel GIT Repo ----------

https://github.com/laravel/laravel.git

---------- Installing Composer ----------

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

Here are a few additional resources:
This is the command I used at the beginning of the video to run apt-get update:

$ sudo apt-get update --fix-missing

Here is the URL to the documentation on how to SSH into your Amazon EC2 instance:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AccessingInstancesLinux.html