From your local server (Xampp) to Google Cloud VM

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Incase you have a website or webapp developed using HTML template, PHP and MSQL database, you can freely host it on google cloud with same set up as of your local computer in a few minutes. Lets break down the steps:

  1. Deploy a LAMP Stack VM from marketplace using Deployment Manager
  2. Navigate into the /var/www/html folder, delete the default index.html file
  3. Using SSH connection, connect your VM to your local machine
  4. Copy all files in Xampp into VM /var/www/html folder
  5. Access phpmyadmin of the VM by adding /phpmyadmin after its External IP
  6. Export local database content to vm database

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Trevor (Al Rashid)

Cloud Engineer | Educator | Entrepreneur | Champion Innovator at Google Cloud Innovators 🎖️