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🌌 Solar System Explorer

An interactive, multi-page website showcasing the Solar System — hosted on an Amazon EC2 instance using Apache web server.

Solar System


🚀 Overview

This project features an educational and visually rich interface to explore our solar system. Each celestial body (Sun and planets) has its own page with real images and facts.

  • 🌍 Built with: HTML, CSS, JavaScript
  • ☁️ Hosted on: Amazon EC2 (Free Tier) with Apache HTTP Server
  • 🔒 Accessed via SSH using PEM key
  • 🛰️ Backup created with AMI for safe image of server state

🌠 Features

  • 💫 Home page with clickable planets
  • ☀️ Individual pages for:
    • Sun
    • Mercury
    • Venus
    • Earth
    • Mars
    • Jupiter
    • Saturn
    • Uranus
    • Neptune
  • 📸 Real space images from NASA/Wikipedia/CDN
  • 🧾 Planet descriptions with scientific info
  • 🌐 Public access via EC2 public IP

🛠️ Technologies Used

Category Tools Used
Frontend HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript
Hosting Amazon EC2 (Fedora), Apache2
Access SSH (PEM key)
Image Mgmt curl, wget
Backup AMI (Amazon Machine Image)

📷 Example Screenshots

Example


🧠 What I Learned

  • Hosting a static website on EC2 using Apache
  • Configuring EC2 security groups (port 80 for HTTP)
  • Using Linux commands (scp, chmod, curl, file)
  • Troubleshooting image MIME issues
  • Creating and restoring from AMI
  • Domain/IP-based deployment

🧾 License

This project is for learning purposes and open to public use.


About

Developed an interactive multi-page website displaying detailed info about planets. Hosted on AWS EC2 using Apache. Configured SSH access, AMI backups, and public domain.

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