MalcolmChalmers

Category: AWS

  • Create a new AWS Instance

    1. Click Services in the top left corner 2. Click EC2 3. Click the Launch Instance button in about the middle of the page 4. Click Select next to “Amazon Linux – Free Tier eligible” 5. Make sure the blue box next to the t2.micro free eligible is selected 6. Click Next: Configure instance details 7.…

  • Creating and Assigning an Elastic IP

    1. From the Network & Security group in the left window, click Elastic IPs 2. Click Allocate new address 3. Click Allocate 4. Click Close 5. Select the new address 6. From the Actions drop down button, select Associate address 7. Select the instance you want to associate with the new ip from the drop…

  • How to Use AWS CLI to copy everything from your bucket

    If you want to copy everything from a S3 bucket to the current directory, you can use the following command C:temp> aws s3 cp s3://bucketname/ . –include “*” –recursive This assumes that you have already installed and configured the the AWS CLI tools. To install the tools, do a search for “AWS CLI tools”. To configure…

  • Connecting to Your Linux Instance Using SSH – Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

    http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AccessingInstancesLinux.html

  • Enable Plugin Installation on AWS EC2 Instances

    If you have setup an Linux instance in AWS with WordPress and are having trouble installing plugins because it is asking for an FTP username and password. All you have to do is run this command and then it won’t ask you anymore, it will just install them. sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html

  • Can’t access web server on AWS EC2 instance

    Go to Network & Security, then security groups. Select the Security Group for the server. Select the Inbound tab. Make sure both SSH and HTTP and selected. I had to add a rule for HTTP