Aidan Macliver | ICT171 Cloud Portfolio

Project Overview

This website is my ICT171 Cloud Server Project. The project demonstrates how a personal portfolio website can be deployed using Infrastructure-as-a-Service instead of a website builder or local hosting.

Website Status: Online and accessible through public IP address 15.135.138.233

Cloud Infrastructure

Cloud Provider

Amazon Web Services was used to host the virtual server.

Service Used

Amazon EC2 was used to create an Infrastructure-as-a-Service Linux server.

Operating System

The server runs Ubuntu Linux and is managed through the command line.

Public Access

The website is available online using the EC2 public IPv4 address.

Server Setup

I connected to the server using SSH and installed Apache as the web server. Apache serves this website from the /var/www/html/ directory.

Key commands used during setup included:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install apache2 -y
sudo systemctl enable apache2
sudo systemctl start apache2
sudo systemctl restart apache2

JavaScript Scripting Component

This website includes JavaScript to make the page interactive. The live date and time displayed at the top of the page updates automatically every second.

The dark mode button also uses JavaScript. When clicked, it toggles a CSS class on the page body and changes the visual theme of the website.

The navigation buttons also use JavaScript. When a tab is clicked, the selected section is displayed and the other sections are hidden. This makes the website more interactive than a simple static page.

Feature 1

Live date and time display using JavaScript.

Feature 2

Dark mode button using JavaScript and CSS class toggling.

Feature 3

Interactive tab navigation using JavaScript to show and hide sections.

Testing and Verification

The website was tested in a web browser using the public IP address: http://15.135.138.233

The scripting output can be verified by watching the live time update at the top of the page, clicking the dark mode button, and switching between the navigation tabs.

Student Details

Name: Aidan Macliver

Student Number: 33401722

Unit: ICT171 Introduction to Server Environments and Architectures

Project: Cloud-hosted personal portfolio website