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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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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Nginx hangs on SSL
I'm running Nginx on an Amazon EC2 micro instance, with some some backend node processes and mongodb.
Recently, I had about 5k hits in about 40 hours, and after a little while,the SSL site hung on ...
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Amazon EC2 (Linux) + RDS (MySQL) + PHP + pdflatex = LaTeX to PDF online
I would like to have a website capable of converting LaTeX documents to PDF online. So for example user types in some raw LaTeX (document), I'm saving it into my MySQL database and I'm able to convert ...
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Lost sudo/su on Amazon EC2 instance
I have an Amazon EC2 instance. I can login just fine, but neither "su"
nor "sudo" work now (they worked fine previously):
"su" requests a password, but I login using ssh keys, and I don't
think ...
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Minimal footprint ubuntu for ec2 micro instance?
I want to run a minimal footprint ubuntu on the new amazon ec2 micro instance.
Is there a pre-built minimum ebs image available somewhere? I'm guessing the official ubuntu ec2 images are not minimal ...
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scp over ec2 ignoring a directory?
Facing a problem while using scp to download a file from AWS EC2 instance(to which I have assigned a elastic IP),scp is ignoring the my-store folder. But when i access the ec2 instance over ssh, I can ...
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Unable to connect to thin server on ubuntu
I'm unable to connect to my webserver over the web.
I've got an ec2 instance running with ubuntu 11.10 on it. It's running a thin server on port 9292. I can ssh into the ec2 box, and do curl ...
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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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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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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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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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Autostart for ubuntu server
Here is the first part of my question. Splitted it because of rule "One topic - one question". My third and main question is about configuring autostart for webserver and database. init.d scripts ...
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debootstrap creates blank fstab (“UNCONFIGURED FSTAB FOR BASE SYSTEM”) - how do i configure fstab for the first time?
I've been following this tutorial to create a custom amazon ec2 image. It looks like debootstrap doesn't set up the fstab anymore.
When I get to the mount /proc step, it complains:
warning: can't ...
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Disk doesn't contain a valid partition table
I was running a m1.small instance ec2 ubuntu instance. I was running out of disk space, so I upgraded my instance to medium. When I upgraded I actually got 429.5 GB of space and after that I added 10 ...
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Installing pdftk on Amazon EC2 Linux Instance
I am having trouble installing pdftk on an amzn-ami-2011.09.2.x86_64-ebs (ami-953b06e1) instance.
Since pdftk is not in the list of available packages I have tried to build it from source but failed ...
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Unable to create filesystem on new partition - Amazon EC2 instance
I created a new partition /dev/xvda1p1 on linux amazon ami.
After that i am unable to create a filesystem.
What is the issue?
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/xvda1: 8589 MB, 8589934592 bytes
255 heads, 63 ...
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Centos/Redhat XSP4 daemon
How can I install xsp to run as a daemon.I run my /etc/init.d/xsp script(see below) it stops with status message :
Listening on address: 0.0.0.0
Root directory: /var/www/asptest
Listening on port: ...
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creating a VPN connection between AWS EC2 Ubuntu server and Ubuntu client
Setting up VPN server-client connection seems to be tricky. I have a sever on Amazon EC2 and would like to join it to my network at home.
What is the simplest & quickest way to do it? Which ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Install and setup FTP for nginx on Amazon EC2?
To install nginx and node on my Amazon EC2 I followed this guide:
Installing Node.js on Amazon EC2
Now I want to get an FTP up and running and set it up so that when I connect to the FTP I ...
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Apache2 not responding on Amazon EC2
It is my first time to use Amazon EC2 linux micro instance with OS Ubuntu 12.04
[inside the box]
I noticed it did not have Apache installed by default, so I did sudo apt-get install apache2. After ...
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Cannot scp file to an EC2 instance that I can ssh to
I have two EC2 instances that were created from the same AMI, which was created from the Amazon Linux AMI. These are running mysql in a master-slave configuration. The security group ("db") is ...
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How can I pass environment variable in nginx conf?
I have nginx conf as
location /static/ {
alias $HOME/code/python/vlists/vlists/static/;
# if asset versioning is used
if ($query_string) {
expires max;
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Amazon EC2 Windows Server 2008 + “Instance Status Checks failed”
I have Windows Server 2008 launched on Amazon EC2 Instance.
While doing some configuration I changed IP address to the private IP address of Amazon EC2 instance.
As soon as I changed IP address, ...
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Vim creates strange output when navigating up or down in Amazon EC2 Ubuntu
When navigating up or down in Vim whilst ssh-ed into an Amazon EC2 Ubuntu instance, strange output appears at the bottom of the screen.
-I think the right-most info (e.g. 2,0-) is indicating cursor ...
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How to copy files from Linux to Windows with RDP (Vinagre)?
I'm able to log in to my EC2 instance with Vinagre but can't figure out how to copy files from my (Ubuntu 12.04) machine to that (Windows Server 2008) slice.
Some googling yielded this which ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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Trying to configure LDAP in AWS on Ubuntu 11.10 but 'ldap_bind: Invalid credentials (49)' appears
I'm trying to setup LDAP for users to authenticate with it.
I've followed this tuto and everything was fine but ldapadd, when I hit enter in the instruction an error appears: ldap_bind: Invalid ...
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known_hosts file deleted on ec2 server - replaceable?
I deleted the known_hosts file on my ec2 instance. I can not access the server to replace it. Is there any alternative other than terminating?
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vsftp client disconnected frequently
I've got this cheap network cam that never gets hung up when it's uploading to another server but does with vsftp. I can't change the cam firmware so I'm hoping I can fix a vsftp setting that might ...
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Unable to connect to amazon ec2 instance over ssh
I am unable to connect to my amazon instance through ssh from a particular internet provider's connection. But I am able to traceroute to that ip from the same internet provider's connection.
ssh ...
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How can I remote access with GUI on ec2 machine? Any step by step command line guideline?
I want to access my ec2 t1 micro.(AMI image) I now able ssh into it but i want to have a remote access with GUI environment, e.g. gnome desktop/unity
How can I do it? Any step by step command line?
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roving clients amazon aws
I am using an amazonaws EC2 instance. As I am constantly changing IP's and IP's are constantly changing anybody knows a way to permanetly add my client. This way I do not always have to add IP ...
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Converting docs to PDFs on Amazon EC2
I need to convert doc files to PDFs on an Amazon EC2 instance (running CentOS) I think. It's a nightmare to install new software on.
I found this: How to convert Word (doc) to PDF in linux?
And ...
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Elasticfox won't connect - EC2 error for DescribeRegions
I recently started getting an error using Elasticfox.
EC2 responded with an error for DescribeRegions
Request ID:
Fault Code: Request Error
Details: Please check your EC2 URL ...
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Reactivating Outlook on an EC2 Instance
I have Outlook 2010 installed on a Win 2008r2 instance on Amazon EC2. Everytime I reboot or shutdown the instance and then start it up again, Outlook asks me to reactivate due to a "hardware change". ...
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Logging into Amazon EC2 via Filezilla SFTP
I have a Amazon EC2 Ubuntu instance running FTP server using vsftpd. In my AWS Management Console, under Security Groups, I have ports 20, 21, and 22 open. The default user for the server is "ubuntu" ...
