Alibaba Cloud is the cloud server provider with the largest number of users in China. Many users like to use Alibaba Cloud servers to build their own websites or applications. This must go through the three steps of registering an Alibaba Cloud account, purchasing an Alibaba Cloud server, and building a website or application. , The following is a complete graphic tutorial for reference:
1. Alibaba Cloud registered account
You can register a personal account or a corporate account. Under conditions, it is generally best to register a corporate account. After all, Alibaba Cloud has a lot more preferential policies for corporate users. Regardless of whether you register a personal or corporate account, you are recommended to go to the official Alibaba Cloud website. It is better to register at the cloud station. After registering, you can receive universal coupons for the first purchase, repurchase, and upgrade of Aliyun's latest cloud products, which can save a lot of money when purchasing cloud servers!
1. Enter the official Alibaba Cloud website and click the register button in the upper right corner
2. When choosing the registration method, you can choose Alipay quick registration or account password registration. Individual users recommend choosing Alipay quick registration (automatically complete account real-name authentication), and corporate users can choose account password registration.
3, if you select the account password is registered, the next step is real-name authentication, you can select individual enterprises real-name authentication can also select real-name authentication, refer to specific certification process aliyun official help Tutorial:
①, personal real-name authentication
②, corporate real-name authentication
③ 、The difference between personal real-name authentication and enterprise real-name authentication
4. Once the real-name authentication is successful, you can directly receive the voucher on the cloud station.
Second, purchase cloud servers
The first step: Determine the cloud server instance specifications and configure the
cloud server purchase. Many novice users are the worst choice for cloud server configuration, because Alibaba Cloud Server has many instance specifications, different regions, cpu and memory configurations, and the prices are all It is different. Generally speaking, it is almost the same for individual users to choose the shared s6 instance. Enterprise users generally choose the computing type c5 and c6, and the general-purpose g5 and g6 are almost the same. If you don’t know how to choose, you can refer to the official Alibaba Cloud information below to learn about different Alibaba Cloud instance specifications
1. Recommended purchase (Alibaba Cloud official recommended configuration)
2. Introduction to the instance specification family
3. Configuration selection
Step 2: Choose the activity
that suits you. For newly registered users, you must purchase Alibaba Cloud servers through various official Alibaba Cloud promotions or official cloud sites to make the purchase. There is a new user area on the cloud site, Enterprise new user area, student user area and explosive cloud products 50% off area, the cloud server configuration and price inside are synchronized with the cloud server configuration and price in the current popular activities. If the discount area of the cloud station has its own satisfaction If you don’t have the configuration, you can buy it directly through the cloud station. If not, it is recommended to refer to the following Alibaba Cloud official long-term popular activities to buy:
1. Individual users recommend to follow:
①, Aliyun will grab the hot money activity
②, Aliyun hot money special offer Activity
2. Recommended focus for corporate users:
①, corporate specials
②, corporate users exclusive discounts
The third step: purchase cloud server After
choosing your own cloud server configuration and activities, the next step is to buy it. Choose the configuration you have selected in Alibaba Cloud activities and click to buy. When you finally pay for the order, Don't forget to use the voucher received on the cloud station. The effect of the voucher is shown in the figure below:
Three, build a website or application
Here we take the installation of the pagoda panel and building a WordPress website as an example: the
first step: install the pagoda panel
First-stop the instance >> disk and mirror >> replace the operating system.
Step 2: Select the pagoda panel from the mirror market
Step 3: Select the pagoda control panel
Step 4: Log in to the back of the pagoda.
Enter the URL http://instance IP:8888, enter the back of the pagoda, and set the login account and password.
Step 5: Install the operating environment To
build a website using WordPress, we generally need to install five operating environments: Nginx+MySQL+PHP+PureFTPd+phpMyAdmin.
Step 6: Add a site
Step 7: Upload the WordPress program to the root directory of the website
After the upload is successful, unzip the package and copy and paste all the files under the file to the root directory. As shown below:
Step 8: Log in to the WordPress backend
Enter the default login address of the WordPress backend, http://your domain name/wp-admin
And follow the instructions to enter the database account correctly. The database name, user name, and password of the database are checked in the pagoda background. After the operation is completed, you can enter the WordPress background.
Step 9: Configure pseudo-static After
deploying the website, you must configure pseudo-static, otherwise you will not be able to access the article details page. Enter the pagoda backstage>>website>>settings>>pseudo static>>choose WordPress>>save, as shown in the figure below:
At this point, the pagoda panel is installed and the WordPress website is built.
Of course, many users, especially corporate users, often need not to build a wordpress website, but to build their own corporate website or application. This involves installing IIS, FTP, and deploying a Web environment. , Alibaba Cloud official also has tutorials, you can refer to:
1. Windows instance to build FTP site
2. Linux instance to build FTP site
3. Windows 2012 installation of IIS and FTP
4. Deploying the web environment (Windows)