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-# staticsite_starkexpo
-Static Website files to deploy in EC2 instance for MLSA Stark Expo Event. Visit http://3.87.25.35/
+# Introduction
+A simple static website deployed using an Apache http web server within an EC2 Linux instance for demoing AWS in the MLSA Stark Expo Event. 
+
+# Prerequisites
+
+- Go to [AWS](https://aws.amazon.com/) and create a new account if you don't have one. This project will stay entirely within AWS Free Tier limits which is applicable to new accounts for upto 12 months since creation.
+- Download the website files from this repository
+
+# Instructions
+
+1. After logging in, go to the Services tab in the AWS Console homepage.
+2. Search EC2 and scroll to `Launch Instance`
+<details>
+  <summary>EC2 Instructions</summary>
+
+  ### Creating a Linux EC2 instance
+
+  1. Choose a name for your EC2 server.
+  2. Under `Application and OS Images (AMI)` choose Ubuntu. This sets what OS your Linux server will be running.
+  3. Under `Instance Type` choose `t2.micro`. This specifies what the technical specficiations of your server will be such as no. of CPUs, memory etc.
+  4. Under `Key Pair (login)` select Create a new key pair. This gives you a key which will later be used to access your server manually and run commands and functions on it.
+     * Provide a key name for example *awslinux* and leave the rest of the settings to default. Click Create key.
+  5. Under `Network Settings` choose `Create security group` under Firewall. Enable allow HTTPS and HTTP traffic from the internet. This handles the security of the connections to and from the server. We have a public website so we want to allow any user(traffic) to access our site over the Internet.
+  6. Under Summary, choose `Launch Instance`.
+  7. Click on Instances on the left pane. The EC2 instance you just created will show up. It will take a while for it to get ready and show `Running` under the Instance State column which indicates your server is ready.
+  8. Click on the Instance ID. This will open up a pane showing all the details of your server. Set aside the `Public IPv4 Address` which will later be used to access our website on the server.
+  9. Click on the `Connect` button at the top of this pane. Under the Connect to Instance page, select `EC2 Instance Connect` and click `Connect`.
+
+  ### Setting up the Website
+
+  1. Once the browser based EC2 CLI opens up run the following set of commands in order.
+
+     ```bash
+      sudo su -
+      apt-get update -y
+      apt-get install -y httpd
+      systemctl status httpd
+      mkdir aws_site
+      cd aws_site
+      wget https://github.com/SourasishBasu/staticsite_starkexpo.git
+      ls -lrt
+      unzip main.zip
+      ls -lrt
+      cd staticsite_starkexpo-main
+      mv * /var/www/html/
+      cd /var/www/html
+      ls -lrt
+      systemctl status httpd
+      systemctl enable httpd
+      systemctl start httpd
+      systemctl status httpd
+     ```
+
+     This installs an Apache HTTP server onto the Linux machine to have it behave as a web server and host the website files we transfer inside it from this git repository. The website files have been taken from [Free CSS](https://www.free-css.com/free-css-templates/page203/image-less).
+</details>
+
+3. Use the `Public IPv4 Address` from the EC2 instance to visit your website on the Internet.
+
+## Setting up CI/CD
+
+CI/CD is the software practice that automates software development, testing, and deployment for faster and more reliable releases.
+
+In our case we would like to make changes to our website files within the Github repository and have those changes automatically added, deployed and reflected in the website online immediately.
+