PHP App Server Layer Reference - AWS OpsWorks

PHP App Server Layer Reference

Note

This layer is available only for Linux-based stacks.

The PHP App Server layer supports a PHP application server by using Apache2 with mod_php.

Short name: php-app

Compatibility: A PHP App Server layer is compatible with the following layers: custom, db-master, memcached, monitoring-master, and rails-app.

Open ports: A PHP App Server layer allows public access to ports 22 (SSH), 80 (HTTP), 443 (HTTPS), and all ports from load balancers.

Autoassign Elastic IP addresses: Off by default

Default EBS volume: No

Default security group: AWS-OpsWorks-PHP-App-Server

Setup recipes:

  • opsworks_initial_setup

  • ssh_host_keys

  • ssh_users

  • mysql::client

  • dependencies

  • ebs

  • opsworks_ganglia::client

  • mysql::client

  • dependencies

  • mod_php5_apache2

Configure recipes:

  • opsworks_ganglia::configure-client

  • ssh_users

  • agent_version

  • mod_php5_apache2::php

  • php::configure

Deploy recipes:

  • deploy::default

  • deploy::php

Undeploy recipes:

  • deploy::php-undeploy

Shutdown recipes:

  • opsworks_shutdown::default

  • apache2::stop

Installation:

  • AWS OpsWorks Stacks uses the instance's package installer to install Apache2, mod_php and the associated log files to their default locations. For more information about installation, see Apache. For more information about logging, see Log Files.