Hi All!
I’m getting started with Reclaim Cloud, and was wondering if there was a set of instructions somewhere for spinning up just a vanilla LAMP stack web host for trying things out. I’d like something I could SSH into and install stuff on, or just drop HTML onto and serve it. Ideally it would use just the env-SOME_NUMBER.us.reclaim.cloud for a domain name to get started. I’d like to be able to play about some before committing to paying for a domain.
I tried just spinning up a VPS, and I can get to it in SSH but can’t seem to get to it via the web? Should I be doing something else? Is there a howto somewhere?
Thanks!
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Hi Andy,
Will take a look here shortly, but wondering if you have a public IP address associated with the VPS? Sometimes that can create an issue with web access. Beyond that, we might need to look at firewall settings, but I’ll know more once I can take a look at environment, so more soon. In terms of documentation for vanilla LAMP I am not sure we have anything for the VOS route, but this exchange might change that 
Jim
I tried having a public IP and I tried not having a public IP. Either way, trying to connect to the us.reclaim.cloud domain got me a “environment does not exist” error page and trying to connect to the public IP in a web browser just timed out (I think? my last experiment was over a week ago and I can’t remember for sure).
I can drop LAMP onto a VPS no trouble, I mostly just need routing to the thing so I can view it in a web browser…
Also, if it would be easier to use one of the “application servers” that’s also fine. I’m not picky. Any route that gets me a box I can SSH into, deploy a dirt simple bit of PHP or some HTML/Javascript to, and then access what its serving up in the browser (via the auto-assigned domain or a public IP) is OK with me.
Hi Andy,
Sorry for the slow response over the weekend. I am going to tag my colleague @taylorjadin to take a look at this and see if it might be easiest to just spin up an apache server if you don’t need a database. Otherwise, I am interested in what a containerized LAMP stack from DockerHub might look like, stay tuned.
Andy, This is very doable, what you want to do is log in to Reclaim Cloud, then use the New Environment button:
Then select PHP, enter a name for your environment, then click Create:
This will deploy the LAP in LAMP, so a Linux container with Apache as the web server server, with PHP installed and ready to go. That Environment name also gets used as part of the URL, so in my example you’d visit the site at https://mysite.us.reclaim.cloud
If you also want a databse, you can click on the SQL button and it will deploy a separate container running MariaDB (or several other DBs if you have a preference):
From here, let us know if you have any other questions, and don’t hesitate to reach out to our support email (support@reclaimhosting.com) if you have other specific questions we can help you out!
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