The purpose of this document is to explain how to install the a blog in an Amazon EC2 micro instance.
Create a new micro instance, bind it to the VPC network
Add an elastic (public) IP
Elastic Block Store > Volumes > Create volume
Name the volume by adding a tag called "Name"
Right click the named volume and attach it to the instance (e.g., as /dev/sdf)
Log in to the machine and find the new device
sudo su -
cat /proc/partitions
[ec2-user@ip-10-0-1-101 ~]$ cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 202 1 8388608 xvda1 202 80 10485760 xvdf
mkfs.ext4 /dev/xvdf
mkdir /mnt/blog
mount /dev/xvdf /mnt/blog/
mkdir /mnt/blog/html
mkdir /mnt/blog/mysql
sudo yum -y install httpd php php-mysql
cd /var/www/
sudo rmdir html
ln -s /mnt/blog/html html
vim /var/www/html/test.php
# Enter just "<?php phpinfo() ?>"
chown
service httpd start
# Make sure you can see that page at http://10.0.1.101/test.php
service httpd stop
rm /var/www/html/test.php
vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/jgs_blog.conf
<VirtualHost 10.0.1.101:80> ServerName blog.jgs.im ServerAdmin hostmaster@jgs.im DocumentRoot /var/www/html DirectoryIndex index.php <Directory /var/www/html/> AllowOverride All Order Deny,Allow Allow from all </Directory> </VirtualHost>
service httpd reload
sudo yum -y install mysql55 mysql55-server # Find the datadir for mysql in /etc/my.cnf: /var/lib/mysql cd /var/lib rmdir mysql ln -s /mnt/blog/mysql mysql service mysqld start mysqladmin -u root create jgs_blog /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation # Secure it as appropriate
mysql -u root -p'<password>' -h 127.0.0.1 CREATE USER 'jgs_blog'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '<password>'; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON jgs_blog.* TO 'jgs_blog'@'localhost'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; select * from mysql.user; # Confirm jgs_blog exists mysqldump --user='root' --password="<password>" --host='physical-db' --single_transaction 'jgs_blog' > /root/jgs_blog_2013-02-16.sql # This dumps the DB from existing host mysql -u root -p'<password>' -h 127.0.0.1 jgs_blog < /home/ec2-user/jgs_blog_2013-02-16.sql # This imports the DB to the new host
Existing physical wordpress machine
tmp_dir="/root/tmp/blog" blog_dir="/var/wordpress" mkdir -p ${tmp_dir} cd ${tmp_dir} tar -cvzf blog.tgz ${blog_dir} scp blog.tgz root@blog.jgs.im:/root/
Now on middleman SCP server
scp -i jgs-devleopers.pem blog.tgz ec2-user@web-blog.vpc:/home/ec2-user scp -i jgs-devleopers.pem ec2-user@web-blog.vpc
Now on jgs-blog.vpc
sudo su - cd /home/ec2-user tar -xvzf blog.tgz mv var/wordpress/* /var/www/html cd /var/www/html chown -R apache:apache . chown -R root:root wp-admin/ chown -R root:root wp-includes/ chown -R root:root wp-content/plugins/ vim wp-config.php define('DB_NAME', 'jgs_blog'); define('DB_USER', 'jgs_blog'); define('DB_PASSWORD', '<password>'); define('DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1'); service httpd restart