A Service of Softnik Technologies

Installing on Amazon EC2 & Amazon Linux 2

Installing Watch My Domains SED v4 on an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance is straightforward.

Install LAMP

Follow the instructions at AWS

LAMP on Amazon Linux 2

Install and Enable SSL/TLS

SSL/TLS on Amazon Linux 2

Install the required PHP modules

Install php-mbstring and php-xml required by Watch My Domains SED v4

sudo yum -y install php-mbstring php-xml
sudo service php-fpm restart

Install PEAR and NET_DNS2

sudo yum -y install php-pear
sudo pear install net_dns2
sudo service php-fpm restart

Install ionCube

cd ~
wget http://downloads3.ioncube.com/loader_downloads/ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz
tar zxvf ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz
cd ioncube

sudo cp ioncube_loader_lin_7.2.so /usr/lib64/php/modules/

The above assumes that you have PHP 7.2, if not replace the 7.2 with appropriate version string.

Edit /etc/php.ini and add

zend_extension=/usr/lib64/php/modules/ioncube_loader_lin_7.2.so
at the top and restart PHP / apache

Create a database

mysql -u root -p
provide your mysql root password and login.

create database wmdsed;
grant all privileges on wmdsed.* to 'wmdsed'@'localhost' identified by "yourpasswordhere";
flush privileges;
quit

Install Watch My Domains SED v4

cd /var/www/html
wget --content-disposition https://domainpunch.com/sed/wmdsed40_trial.zip.php
unzip wmdsed40_trial.zip
cd wmdsed40
cp config-sample.php config.php
nano config.php
Now edit config.php and provide database details, setup user password, etc. (please see the link below)

Installation & Setup

Open the application in your browser at https://<ip address>/wmdsed40/