Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) is a web service that allows users to rent virtual computing capacity on which they can run their applications.
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ec2-import-instance of VMWare vmdk of Windows OS success, but can't RDP access the new ec2 instance
I have a virtual machine for CI/build (Subversion, Jenkins) environment running Windows Server 2008 inside a VMWare server 2.0. We are migrating to AWS EC2 so using ec2-import-instance command line ...
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installing Abbyy OCR server on Amazon EC2
I'm trying to run ABBYY server (version 10) in Ubuntu.
At home, I realized that Abbyy requires a different (lower) GLIBC version than the one that comes with Ubuntu 12.04.
It installed successfully ...
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how to open httpd.config (or any file) in ec2 terminal with PuTTY
How do you open a write to the httpd.config file on an ec2 linux instance using PuTTY? How does one edit the file locally and upload it to the Apache server?
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EC2 — can't connect to my web server
I can ssh into my machine but can't connect to my jetty server running at port 8080.
I've disabled the firewall.
I've setup Forward rules correctly (Security Group)
Inside the machine, If I do
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How Can I Automatically Rename an AWS Machine during Boot
I have an AWS ami (based on Windows Server 2008 r2) that will be used to start several instances at the same time
I would like the hostnames to be unique but i also need them to only contain letters ...
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Adding a disk to an Amazon EC2 instance
I am using Amazon EC2 instance where I have low disk space
[root@ip-10-59-143-73 ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvde1 5.7G 3.3G 2.3G 60% /
none ...
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Windows Server not installing audio drivers properly
I am trying to install a dummy sound card on a Windows Server machine (in Amazon EC2 cloud) in order for one of my application to work.
I'm trying to accomplish that with Virtual Audio Cable and ...
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How to install PHPMyAdmin on Linux EC2 instance?
I just finished setting up a default Linux EC2 instance and would like to install PHPMyAdmin. I already have Apache and MySQL installed but cannot seem to install PHPMyAdmin. I tried using
sudo ...
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Cannot find “.ssh” Folder on Mac
I am trying to build up a connection to Amazon EC2 via SSH.
Sadly I cannot find the folder to put my .pem file in.
When typing
~/.ssh
In the terminal I get:
No such file or directory
I have ...
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How to speed up mahout learning process? [closed]
I have been using a dataset with million documents as a training set. It takes a day for mahout to learn in my machine with 8GB ram, intel i5 2.50GHZ?
Is there any tweak to improve the learning ...
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How do I configure a Netgear FVS336g for use with Amazon VPC?
I think it should be possible to create an IPSec tunnel between a Netgear FVS336Gv2 firewall/router and AWS VPC however, I've been unable after several tries. How do I setup a connection for a Amazon ...
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Transfer Amazon S3 data to MySql Database [closed]
I have about 350000 files in my Amazon S3.
I need to transfer them to a MySql database running in my server..
Which is the best way to do this?
I saw this post which uses Pipeline, but Pipeline is ...
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How to estimate compute time on EC2?
I need to generate data samples for my thesis, using some R/C++ code I've written. It can be embarrassingly parallel, and I've generalized it to run on local multicore machines without much trouble.
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Get a fixed dns for an ec2 instance
I want to use an ec2 instance just to do work on some personal programming and text processing projects in the cloud (from an ssh terminal) rather than on a desktop. I don't always need access to the ...
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what is the best way to setup SSL for amazon ec2 Lamp Structure [closed]
I have setup my EC2 instance with LAMP structure based on php/mysql. I have my web directory www ready and running my php files. I also have a static IP for this.
I wanted to know how I can install ...
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Keep GUI app running after vncserver shutdown
I am trying to do the following:
Connect through SSH to an Amazon EC2 instance
Start a VNC server
Connect through VNC
Start a GUI application and log in
Kill the VNC server but keep the GUI ...
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How to fix Glassfish 3.1 on Amazon EC2 free tier crashing when an ADF application is deployed?
I can deploy ADF application on Glassfish on my local machine. However, when I try to deploy it on a Glassfish domain in Amazon EC2 free tier, the server log suddenly says "the DAS was stopped" and ...
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How to extract IP address from Amazon hostname?
I really don't know why, but Amazon Web Services provided me with some weird hostnames for my machines. Now I need to list all them with knife to use in a bash script. I'm saying that the IPs are ...
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installing redis server on an ec2 instance where postgres is installed
I have an ec2 microinstance. I have installed only my postgressql database server over there.
I want to try redis for celery backend and also for some realtime value storing.
I am expecting as of ...
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Unable to find source of mounted volume on AWS EC2 instance
I have an Amazon EC2 instance running Ubuntu with a mount, /mnt/resources. When I run df -h, I can see the following:
/dev/sdb 414G 238G 155G 61% /mnt
I can't seem to figure out ...
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On ec2 how do I use navigation shortcut keys?
Whenever I ssh to ec2 I notice that ctr+a (beginning of line), ctrl+e, and other navigation keys do not work in terminal.
Is there a way to set up my ec2 terminal so that I can use these navigation ...
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Python taking too much memory on server,
I have a running EC2 instance on amazon AWS. and some time server gives me the memory maximum utilization above 97%.
When i saw my server stats on newrelic That showed me the below running processes ...
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getting my domain name to point to my amazon ec2 instance
I'm trying to get my godaddy.com domain name pointed to my Amazon EC2 instance and am having some difficulty.
I created a hosted zone for my domain name on route 54 and set the namesevers up as the ...
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Unable to use sudo su - command
I am new in ubuntu, i am trying to run following command
sudo su -
Bu i am getting following message
sudo: unable to open /etc/sudoers: Permission denied
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, ...
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How to install PHP 5.3.18 on Amazon EC2?
I am googling for a while but with no luck. I am looking for quickest way of installing PHP in 5.3.x version on Amazon EC2.
Could someone give me any advice?
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SVN error after server crash
Suddenly, this morning, my webserver (running on EC2 amazon instance ) was not online anymore. So I had to restart apache, mysql and SVN servers. To do so, I used
sudo /etc/init.d/svnserve restart ...
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how to correct sudo permission
I'm running AWS EC2 Micro instance and had issues getting permission to the root access with EC2-user.
Followed a tutorial online and ran the following commands:
sudo chgrp ec2-user /etc
sudo chmod ...
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Setting correct permissions for uploading files
I have a php script that uploads a file to a directory called "uploads". The only way I can get the upload to work is if I do:
chmod 777 uploads
I know this isn't correct but I don't know ...
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SSH connection to AWS EC2 servers terminate often [duplicate]
SSH connection to AWS EC2 servers terminate often, what configuration needs to be modified so that we could minimize the remote shell from being terminated.
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AWS Beanstalk AMI, instance tags
Folks,
When using BeanStalk to deploy and scale a simple application, is there a way to add instance metadata to launched ec2 instances?
Thanks
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How do I copy files into `/var/www` with WinSCP?
When I try to place my web files into /var/www in apache on my ec2 Ubuntu instance it is giving me an error stating that I don't have permission.
Permission denied.
Error code: 3
Error message from ...
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unable to create txt record using amazon route 53
I can't add the following TXT record to my Route 53 DNS config:
v=msv1 t=whatever
Doing so produces the following error:
The record set could not be saved because:
- The Value field contains ...
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EC2 - run a script immediately after ssh login?
I don't even know if this is possible but I thought I'd ask anyays!
I'm wondering, is it possible to run a script immediately after a SSH login? My thought is to make a python script that executes ...
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Disable Amazon AWS Echo to Different SSH Connections
I am on a Power Mac OSX mountain lion. I ssh into an amazon aws ec2 instance. Then I want to ssh into the same aws ec2 instance. When I do any command in one connection it is echoed in the other ...
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Setup EC2 for Crawling [closed]
I do write my python crawlers and collect data using mysql databases and sometime postgres, but I really want to move to EC2 where I can run more instances and setup more row bust crawling. What I ...
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Can I run Windows 7 in Amazon AWS
I'd love to be able to do some testing on blank images of a windows 7 machine, and rather than have to set up VirtualBox with Windows 7 and use snapshots etc I thought I might just use EC2 on AWS and ...
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Connect to Amazon EC2 with NFS
I'm trying to connect to my Amazon EC2 from my laptop using NFS. I've installed nfs-utils rpcbind and have the following in /etc/exports
/mnt/data/myuser *(rw,async)
Then load the changes
exportfs ...
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Site hosted by WAMP on amazon-ec2 not visible from other machines
I am building my own website, for which I have installed WAMP on Windows Server 2008, on an Amazon-ec2 instance. I am able to run the WAMP and view the site but only locally. If I try to access the ...
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Is it a good idea to setup a vnc server on an Ubuntu EC2 instance?
I launched an Ubuntu instance on EC2 recently.
And on my desktop Ubuntu, I am familiar with the GUI with it.
I can do most jobs with the command line, but if I encounter some problems, I have to ...
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Can't ssh to ec2 after using afw
I just used ufw to enable port 1337 on my Ubuntu system for the first time. After that, my instance was fine, but port 1337 was still not open, so I changed the security group from the ec2 console. ...
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How to configure SFTP at amazon EC2 WITHOUT key file [closed]
My EC2 server running a Debian distribution: Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
I need to connect dreamweaver to an Amazon EC2 instance but it is not working with keys.
I need do configure my server to work ...
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Host Interceptor gives localhost as hostname in aws
I'm trying to write my apache logs from my ec2 instances. I want the logs separated by hostname.
I'm using host interceptor to get the hostname. My configuration is below.
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User management for linux server
Here is the first part of my question.
Should I set up two user accounts; one for the database and another for the web server? Or is it better to have one root user for all purposes?
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Moving EBS snapshots to Glacier
I have hundreds of large EBS snapshots I need to move to Glacier.
What's the best way to go about doing this?
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How can I configure FTP on an Amazon EC2 instance for use with Dreamweaver?
I'm setting up a web server on EC2 running Debian GNU/Linux 6.0. For simplicity's sake I'd like to use FTP. I realize this is insecure but I'm using Dreamweaver which doesn't support SFTP (see this ...
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mysql remote connection on Amazon ec2 ubuntu
I installed a MySQL server in an Amazon EC2 instance. Then, I made the following changes in /etc/mysql/my.cnf:
bind-address = 0.0.0.0
#skip-external-locking
After restarting the server, I executed ...
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SSH into Linux box from EC2
I can't seem to ssh from my ubuntu EC2 server into my work linux box.
From my work linux box, I can ssh into myself via
ssh -p <my listening ssh port> <user>@<my ip>
The same ...
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How to reduce memory footprint of t1.Micro Amazon AMI? [closed]
I recently launched (several tries) Amazon Linux AMI 2012.09 because of the 1 year free tier. However, its always running out of memory. How can I reduce the initial memory footprint of this AMI?
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Tried and tested VNC for Ubuntu on EC2
There seem to be quite a few documents on how I can set up freenx on Ubuntu -- however I have Ubuntu 12.10 set up on EC2, and I dont seem to be able to install freenx on the instance as the repository ...
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Steps to Map my Domain in AWS
I just bought an "on demand instance" in AWS, would like to know the steps to map my domain ( www.abc.com ) for my amazon instance to perform the name servers updates, etc ?
I got to know about Route ...
