Short recipe to configure EC2 for www.agtek.com

• Allocate EC2 instance - Use the Agtek Web Server private AMI
  • This is pre-loaded with httpd, php, mysql
  • Note that the mysql database is pre-loaded with old content. A dump / restore is required.
• Create dump of database from old machine
  • Log into old machine
  • Connect to mysql for dump:
    • mysqldump -u root -p –all-databases > web.dump
  • Copy web.dump to new machine
  • Log into new machine and restore
    • mysql -u root -p < web.dump
  • Can set password on db root to some value:
    • Use mysql command to connect and use mysql then
    • set password for 'root'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('XYZ');
  • Set up to mount web site store
    • mkdir /mnt/web/
    • Add to /etc/fstab: “/dev/sdf /mnt/web ext4 defaults 0 0”
    • Attach the web EBS store to the instance
    • link /var/www/html to point to /mnt/web/html
  • Add content to /var/www/.htaccess

    ''RemoveHandler .html .htm''
    ''AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .html .htm''
    ''AddHandler server-parsed .html''
    ''AddHandler server-parsed .shtml''
    ''AddHandler server-parsed .htm''
    ''php_flag  display_errors        on''
    ''php_value error_reporting       2039''