1. Verify prerequisites in terminal command has zip unzip apt yarn
2. SSH as root user ec2-user/ubuntu depending on AWS 2023 selected OS.
3. Enable PHP.ini extensions by installing extensions via sudo apt install
   • php-gd
   • php-zip
   • php-curl
   • php-imagick - Sometimes the imagick.so is not properly linked. Hence, use extension=/usr/lib/php/20210902/imagick.so
   • php-simplexml
4. Restart php service
   • sudo service php8.1rc-fpm restart
5. Update node to v20
6. To copy project and database from old server. Use terminal, navigate to the folder
   • /var/lib/ , and zip -r mysql.zip mysql ** Use root user if encounter EACCESS/permission issues.
   • /home/<user>/webapps/ or /var/www/html , and zip -r <project_name>.zip <project_name>
7. Download the zipped files using VSCode,

1. To upload to new server, navigate to the user folder /home/ubuntu and drag the downloaded folder into the VSCode file explorer.
2. Then move to target folder /var/lib by sudo mv /home/ubuntu/mysql.zip /var/lib
3. cd /var/lib
4. sudo unzip mysql.zip
5. Verify using MYSQL Workbench or HeidiSQL that the database is appearing in the Schema/Database Explorer.
6. Clean up the mysql.zip sudo rm /var/lib/mysql.zip on both servers.

For project

1. Repeat same from step 7-12 for copying project folder with target folder of the following:
   1. Note: Rename the unzipped folder to replace existing folder if required.
   2. var/www/html for Apache setup.
   3. /home/runcloud/webapps for Nginx setup.