web2py Amazon EC2Basic How-to

Create an EC2 Account

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/

Use you Amazon login to register for EC2

Give your credit card info

You will be billed differently depending on the instance you choose and the site traffic. Later we will use the smaller possible instance.

Ready to deploy an Instance

An instance is a ready made virtual machine that will run on the amazon cloud.

Choose "AMS Management Console"

Start to deploy an Instance

Click on "Launch Instance"

Choose an Instance

Choose one of the ubuntu servers

we tried ami-2675974f

32 bits are "small instance"

EMB ones have persistence storage

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... careful now (security) ...Give a name to your security .pem certificate

Save it on a safe place on your machine

Remember your.pem

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Leave security group as "default"

Back to Your Instances

Wait for your Instance to start

Its IP address is under "public DNS"

Remember instanceip

Allow AccessClick on Security Groups

Select the "default" group (the only one)

At the bottom enable ssl, http, https

Almost done...Connect to your instance

localhost> ssh -i [your.pem] [instanceip]

Almost done...Install web2py

localhost> ssh -i [your.pem] [instanceip]> wget http://web2py.googlecode.com/hg/scripts/setup-web2py-ubuntu.sh> chmod +x setup-web2py-ubuntu.sh> ./setup-web2py-ubuntu.sh

Almost done...This will take a while and may ask you some questions

localhost> ssh -i [your.pem] [instanceip]> wget http://web2py.googlecode.com/hg/scripts/setup-web2py-ubuntu.sh> chmod +x setup-web2py-ubuntu.sh> ./setup-web2py-ubuntu.shbla bla bla

Almost done...Enable the admin interface

localhost> ssh -i [your.pem] [instanceip]> wget http://web2py.googlecode.com/hg/scripts/setup-web2py-ubuntu.sh> chmod +x setup-web2py-ubuntu.sh> ./setup-web2py-ubuntu.shbla bla bla> sudo -u www-data bash> cd /home/www-data/web2py> python -c "from gluon.main import save_password; save_password('hello',443)"

Done

Now you are ready to connect to

http://[instanceip]

https://[instanceip]/admin

Caveats

What have we done?

We have setup a virtual machine running on the Amazon cloud with web2py running on it.

What have we NOT done?

We have not setup elastic computing and storage.

Can it be done?

Yes. But it is not described here.