EC2 Instructions

When using EC2 instances, by default you don't have root access, and Dokploy needs root access to install the necessary packages without restrictions.

To do this, you need to make manual modifications to the instance:

1. Click on launch instance

2. Select the distribution of your choice (we recommend Ubuntu, Debian or Amazon Linux)

3. Choose your instance type and all the other settings you want

4. In the Network settings, click on:

   • Allow SSH traffic from the internet
   • Allow HTTPS traffic from the internet
   • Allow HTTP traffic from the internet

5. Click on Launch instance (If you see a warning about adding a new key pair, just skip it)

6. Now go to your instance and click on Connect

7. Type this command sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config and find the line #PermitRootLogin prohibit-password and change it to PermitRootLogin yes. Save and exit.

8. Restart the SSH service by typing this command:

   sudo systemctl restart sshd

9. Go back to the EC2 instance and click on Connect but instead of using the default username ec2-user, type root

10. Connect using the root user

11. Create a server in the Dokploy dashboard in the remote server section

12. Specify the server details:

    • IP field: IPv4 public address of the instance
    • Username field: root
    • SSH key: Select the SSH key you created earlier
    • Click on Create Server

13. Click on action Setup Server in the SSH Keys tab, follow the manual process (Copy the Command and paste in the server manually)

14. Connect to the server - you should now be able to setup the server properly and deploy your applications