Move to Cloud

Also see Development

Random Notes

For wordpress make sure to chown to www-data.

Resources

• http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html
• http://lifehacker.com/5943452/five-best-domain-name-registrars

Migration Steps

AdamColton.net

WS2

up and running, need to fill in

need to get pics

transfer to NameCheap (last)

Wiki

WS2

need to fix index.php in url

Projects

WS2

not all databases are up and running

move the videos to Vimeo/Youtube

Moon-Jumper

WS1

always a pain to move

maybe just start building V3 here, I don't think it will take that long this time around

transfer to namecheap

AlexColton.net AlexColton.com

D5

transfer to namecheap

LaurenColton.com

Transfer to Lauren

To Do

• https? - Can do a self-signed cert
• http://aws.amazon.com/articles/1663
• FTP
• Git
• Get MySql Workbench running
• WP with RDS
• sshfs
• Try Dev Environments
  • Eclipse
  • Vim
  • Cloud 9
• SQS
• How to create strict relationships / cascading deletes
• Try AWS load balancer (and look at rates)
• Security for webmin (apparently it's very exposed)

Look into component systems

• Testing
• Build/publish
• Bug tracking
• Task tracking
• Source control

Notes

startup script (for ubuntu) in /etc/init.d/ec2 and to make sure it's run at startup, "update-rc.d ec2 defaults"

Tools and Setup

Server Type

I've been using Ubuntu server, and that seems to be work very well. The only quirk (and perhaps not a bad one) is that the system does not allow you to log in as root, you must instead issue sudo.

Update

Do this first. Do it.

sudo apt-get update

Server Setup

Tasksel seems to be a good tool for system setup and is already installed in Ubuntu, just run "sudo tasksel".

More here: http://www.unixmen.com/install-lamp-with-1-command-in-ubuntu-1010-maverick-meerkat/

Webmin

Note, the initial attempt to install webmin will fail, but it will tell apt what it needs to finish. When the apt-get -f install command is run, it will get everything and install webmin.

http://www.webmin.com/deb.html

1. wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin_1.610_all.deb
2. sudo dpkg --install webmin_1.610_all.deb
3. sudo apt-get -f install
4. sudo ufw allow 10000
5. sudo sed -i 's/ssl=1/ssl=0/g' /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf
6. sudo /usr/share/webmin/changepass.pl /etc/webmin root PASSWORD
7. sudo /etc/webmin/restart

PhpMyAdmin

sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

AWS Command Line Tools

http://alestic.com/2012/05/aws-command-line-packages

Attaching Database Volume

Through UI

1. Attach a volume through AWS interface
2. sudo parted /dev/DEVICE
   1. mklabel msdo
   2. mkpart primary 1 -1
   3. quit
3. sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/DEVICE1
4. sudo mkdir -m 000 /vol
5. sudo mount /dev/DEVICE1 /vol
6. sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop
7. sudo mkdir /vol/etc /vol/lib /vol/log
8. sudo mv /etc/mysql /vol/etc/
9. sudo mv /var/lib/mysql /vol/lib/
10. sudo mv /var/log/mysql /vol/log/
11. sudo mkdir /etc/mysql /var/lib/mysql /var/log/mysql
12. sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start

Through CLI

http://aws.amazon.com/articles/1663

• availabilityZone=`wget -q -O - http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/placement/availability-zone`
• volumeId=`ec2-create-volume -z $availabilityZone -s 8 | grep -Eo 'vol-\w{8}'`
• instanceId=`wget -q -O - http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id`
• ec2-attach-volume $volumeId -d /dev/xvdf -i $instanceId
• parted /dev/xvdf --script -- mklabel msdos
• parted /dev/xvdf --script -- mkpart primary 1 -1
• mkfs.ext4 /dev/xvdf

VNC Setup

1. Update the system
2. Install a desktop either through tasksel or sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
3. sudo apt-get install vnc4server
4. vncserver :1
5. vncserver -kill :1 (starting and stopping it generates some necessary files
6. sudo pico ~/.vnc/xstartup
   • Erase the last two lines
   • add "gnome-session &" at the end
7. sudo passwd ubuntu ALTERNATIVLY try just doing vncpasswd
8. vncserver :1
9. Open ports 5900-5910
10. Connect! I recommend Remmina (or RealVNC for windows)

As of 13.04, this doesn't work and you need Gnome-Fallback. As of 13.10, it doesn't work at all.

To connect, I needed

 123.123.45.67:1

Blender

Still don't have this working, but http://www.noobslab.com/2011/09/nvidia-drivers-for-ubuntu-1110-oneiric.html got me past the first set of errors.

Server Setup with Script

• Upload aws.tar.gz
  • pscp -i minecraft.ppk aws.tar.gz ubuntu@54.235.214.84:
  • scp -i Minecraft.pem aws.tar.gz ubuntu@54.235.214.84:
• tar -zxvf aws.tar.gz
• wget projects.adamcolton.net/startup/webServer.sh
• sudo chmod u+x webServer.sh
• sudo bash webServer.sh
• source $HOME/.bashrc

PuTTY Notes

To make the display cleaner, in Window > Appearance change the font to Courier New and in Window > Translation change the remote character set to UTF-8.

What Needs to Move

Before

• projects.adamcolton.net
• wiki.adamcolton.net - DONE
• alexcolton.net and alexcolton.com
• laurencolton.com
• moon-jumper.com - DONE
• Adamcolton.net

After

• christmas.adamcolton.net
• miearthship.com
• Move minecraft controller on this server
• Move minecraft wiki on this server

Steps

1. Export files - DONE
2. Export Databases
3. Copy up files and setup up sub-domains
4. Copy up Database files
   • adamcolton.net wordpress
   • wiki
   • alexcolton.net wordpress
   • miearthship wordpress
   • moon-jumper databases
5. Configure connection strings
6. Setup Hosts file and do testing
7. Domain transfers
   • Laurens domain gets transferred to her
8. Eat a cookie!