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Setting up on EC2

Thanks to my friend Dustin, and his EC2 demo using Elasticfox Firefox Extension for Amazon EC2 I got an EC2 image setup. With other references Link 1,Link 2,Link 3 I was also able to create my own AMI.

Some notes specific for my configuration.

Pre-config ElasticFox key for launching directly from ElasticFox SSH connections.

mkdir ~/ec2-keys
mv ~/Downloads/elasticfox.pem ~/ec2-keys/id_elasticfox
chmod 600 ~/ec2-keys/id_elasticfox
chmod 700 ~/ec2-keys/
ssh -i /Users/rbradfor/ec2-keys/id_elasticfox root@ec2-99-999-999-999.compute-1.amazonaws.com

Installed Software.

apt-get update
apt-get -y autoremove
apt-get -y install apache2
apt-get -y install mysql-server
# Prompts for password (very annoying)
apt-get -y install php5
apache2ctl graceful
echo "Hello World" > /var/www/index.html
echo "< ? phpinfo() ?>" > /var/www/phpinfo.php

Configuration to save AMI.

scp -i ~/ec2-keys/id_elasticfox ~/ec2-keys/id_elasticfox pk-CHK7DP4475BWUKIUF4WFDIW3VMYDYOHQ.pem cert-CHK7DP4475BWUKIUF4WFDIW3VMYDYOHQ.pem root@ec2-99-999-999-999.compute-1.amazonaws.com:/mnt

ec2-bundle-vol -d /mnt -c cert-CHK7DP4475BWUKIUF4WFDIW3VMYDYOHQ.pem -k pk-CHK7DP4475BWUKIUF4WFDIW3VMYDYOHQ.pem -u AccountNumber -r i386 -p ubuntu804_lamp
ec2-upload-bundle -b rbradford_804_lamp_ami -m /mnt/ubuntu804_lamp.manifest.xml -a AccessID -s SecretKey

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2 Responses to “Setting up on EC2”

  1. Norbert Tretkowski says:
    June 22, 2008 at 7:43 pm

    Raising the debconf priority would prevent you from the password prompt during installation.

  2. alvina says:
    July 30, 2008 at 9:22 am

    I’m having the hardest time with elasticfox. Mostly because most of the tutorials I found are for windows or putty. I’m using wubi ubuntu hardy, java sun, elasticfox. when I get to the point where I open ssh connection a screen pops up with an error. i’m wondering if I have to preconfid the ssh to allow elasticfox to do it. That’s what I gathered from your post. Maybe I’m way off. I tried watching the video you have above but even after searching for codec and downloading it didn’t work so I am going to try over in windows I have the codecs there for sure. I would appreciated deeply any advice or tips you can pass along.
    TIA,
    Alvina

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