PHP with mod_rewrite Sample Project on AWS Elastic Beanstalk

This is a sample PHP web application to be run in AWS Elastic Beanstalk. The intention of the app is to answer a question in stackoverflow.com. The question is how to use mod_rewrite in AWS Elastic Beanstalk using PHP environment, which uses Apache as web server at the time of writing this app.

Note: This app is NOT secure. Don't use it in actual/production environment. Please destroy the AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment after you tried this app.

The app contains some PHP files:

• index.php: Home page
• phpinfo.php: Print phpinfo()
• searchPage.php: Print $_SERVER and $_REQUEST variable

How to create PHP environment on AWS Elastic Beanstalk:

1. Open AWS Elastic Beanstalk Web Console.
2. Click Create a New Environment.
3. Fill the Application Information.
4. Choose Create web server and attach appropriate IAM role.
5. In Environment Type page:
   1. Choose Predefined configuration: PHP. Make sure you configuration is 64bit Amazon Linux 2015.03 v1.4.3 running PHP 5.6 or any other compatible configuration.
   2. Environment type Load balancing, auto scaling.
   3. Click Next.
6. In Application Version page:
   1. Choose Upload your own and select the zip file of this app (can be downloaded here).
   2. Choose Fixed and fill the param with 1.
   3. Click Next.
7. Fill the Environment Information.
8. In Additional Resources, check on Create this environment inside a VPC.
9. Fill the Configuration Details.
10. Fill the Environment Tags.
11. Fill the VPC Configuration. Make sure your ELB visibility is External.
12. Check the Review Information.
13. Deploy and wait until finish.

What you can check in this app:

• http://<your-env-url>.elasticbeanstalk.com/aws-eb-php-mod-rewrite-sample-master/index.php: Check for successful PHP deployment.
• http://<your-env-url>.elasticbeanstalk.com/aws-eb-php-mod-rewrite-sample-master/phpinfo.php: Check for your PHP environment. You can make sure your mod_rewrite is enabled here.
• http://<your-env-url>.elasticbeanstalk.com/aws-eb-php-mod-rewrite-sample-master/searchPage.php?crs_category=business: Original PHP script for mod_rewrite test.
• http://<your-env-url>.elasticbeanstalk.com/aws-eb-php-mod-rewrite-sample-master/category/business/: mod_rewrite test. This url will be handled by searchPage.php.