Move to Cloud

Resources

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

To Do

• How to backup/restore an image
• I should really learn vim
• https?
• if I run my own DB, how does load balancing work (I can always just use the Amazon services)
• http://aws.amazon.com/articles/1663
• Rebooting
  • Do all the necessary services start automatically
  • Does the database attach correctly
  • Can I create a script to attach the database
• Scripts
  • Create Server
    • Can I fully automate tasksel
    • Can I pass in my passwords as arguments?
  • Restore Server
  • Move DB to new machine
  • Move webserver to new machine
  • Move DB back to main machine
• FTP
• Git
• MySql Workbench

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
8. vncserver :1
9. Open ports 5900-5910
10. Connect! I recommend Remmina (or RealVNC for windows)

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.