• Route53
• AWS Info
• web access problem resolved

Using Amazon Web Services

Logged into aws.amazon.com with my Amazon account, which I then used to create an AWS account.

Created an EC2 instance. I choose Ubuntu 14.04.

Instance is running in the US East (N. Virginia) region.

During the process, I had to create a key pair name. AWS created a private key, which I downloaded. It was a .pem file.

I moved the .pem file to another directory on my local Linux machine at home. From within this directory, I used ssh to connect to my EC2 account, using the command line instructions provided by AWS's web interface.

It's a fairly clean or empty Linux machine, as with my Digital Ocean Droplet account.

I chose to install Nginx first.

http://jothut.com/cgi-bin/junco.pl/blogpost/21154/14May2015/Installing-nodejs-nginx-mysql-junco-and-ghost-on-Digital-Ocean-Droplet#Installing-Nginx

http://jothut.com/cgi-bin/junco.pl/blogpost/71676/05Jul2016/Installing-thttpd-and-tor-to-create-a-onion-website

http://voidcanvas.com/setup-and-configure-nginx-in-aws-ec2-linuxubuntu-instance/

this starts in the home directory, which is /home/ubuntu

• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install nginx
• sudo service nginx start
• sudo mkdir www
• cd www
• sudo mkdir mysite
• cd mysite
• sudo vim index.html
  • added test content to index.html
• cd
• sudo chmod -R 755 www
• cd /etc/nginx/sites-available
• ls
• sudo cp default mysite
• cd ..
• cd sites-enabled
• sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/mysite mysite
• sudo service nginx restart

ec2-54-211-235-101.compute-1.amazonaws.com

Route53

bought: perchwire.com and boghop.com through AWS.

used route53's dns setup to connect the ec2 instance with the domain name.

AWS Info

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/concepts.html?icmpid=docs_ec2_console

https://aws.amazon.com/start-now/

https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/gettingstarted/?sc_channel=em&sc_campaign=wlcm&sc_publisher=aws&sc_medium=em_wlcm_2&sc_detail=wlcm_2&sc_content=other&sc_country=global&sc_geo=global&sc_category=mult&ref_=pe_1679150_132208650

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/gettingstarted/latest/swh/website-hosting-intro.html

https://aws.amazon.com/route53/

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=87279

web access problem resolved

wed, evening, july 27, 2016. i have not looked at this since last week when i initiated this.

http://boghop.com now works, display a hello world type message.

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=571142

my issue was identical

I have taken a look at your one running instance and I can see you have only allowed access to port 22 in the associated Security Group ("sg-0bbd436e").

In order to ping the instance, you will need to allow ICMP traffic. In order to browse to the instance, you will need to typically open port 80/443--this depends on which port you have configured the Web server to listen.

in EC2 management:

- showed instances running, which is only one
- scroll to the right, all the way, to show security groups
- click the link for launch-wizard-1
- only thing permitted was port 22 for ssh
- i added http port 80
- i also added icmp

next, i need to install:

• perl
• fast cgi
• wren
  • any modules used by wren
    • mailgun
    • json

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https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/

https://hackernoon.com/how-a-book-store-is-dominating-the-cloud-4ef3a839aaba#.sz2fcsl9w
Certificate Manager ( #ssl )

and CloudFront

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/acm/latest/userguide/acm-overview.html

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/acm/latest/userguide/gs-cf.html

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/Introduction.html

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/SecureConnections.html

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/HowCloudFrontWorks.html

https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/home?region=us-east-1#

https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/

http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/whole-site-delivery-with-amazon-cloudfront

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/userguide/what-is-load-balancing.html

load balancing info:
https://aws.amazon.com/articles/1636185810492479

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/acm/latest/userguide/acm-services.html

request a certificate:
https://console.aws.amazon.com/acm/home?region=us-east-1#/wizard/?firstrun=true

load balancer
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/acm/latest/userguide/gs-elb.html

cloudfront and s3
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/MigrateS3ToCloudFront.html

etc.
https://wblinks.com/notes/aws-tips-i-wish-id-known-before-i-started/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7172060

load balancing doc
https://aws.amazon.com/articles/1636185810492479

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/PresignedUrlUploadObject.html

python and aws:
https://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-python/

https://aws.amazon.com/tools/

https://aws.amazon.com/cli/

Speeding up delivery of web content using Amazon Route 53, Elastic Load Balancer and CloudFront
http://www.slideshare.net/tomlaszewski/web-sitescalingpartnerwebinar

https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/

moving files to s3
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7172583

https://www.davidbaumgold.com/tutorials/host-static-site-aws-s3-cloudfront

s3
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/request-rate-perf-considerations.html

http://jothut.com/cgi-bin/junco.pl/replies/77700

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12528070

"You can invalidate cache with fake (ignored) URL parameters (http://foo.html?hello) or HEAD section declarations."

+1 on setting up an s3 bucket, cloudfront distribution, ssl sni, route 53 rules and simple "aws s3 sync" command with some cache-headers

https://tech.flyclops.com/posts/2016-04-27-flyclops-sites-static-ssl.html

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/11/modern-static-website-generators-next-big-thing/

AWS Webcast - Best Practices for Content Delivery using Amazon CloudFront
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9Xt1qzD6SA

Amazon CloudFront to improve delivery of static or dynamic content originating from AWS services such as Amazon S3, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), or Amazon EC2.

Learning Objectives:
• Best practices for delivering your whole website on Amazon CloudFront
• Best practices to deliver content securely via Amazon CloudFront
• Best practices to deliver content from AWS services such as Amazon S3, Amazon EC2 and Elastic Load Balancing using Amazon CloudFront

Who Should Attend:
• All AWS (S3, EC2, or ELB) customers who have some data transfer to internet
• All Amazon CloudFront customers

https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/tips-tricks/how-to-use-amazon-s3-and-cloudfront-with-wordpress

ec2 and cloudfront
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/CustomOriginBestPractices.html

https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/webinars/

https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/dynamic-content/

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• http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/whole-site-delivery-with-amazon-cloudfront
• http://www.slideshare.net/tomlaszewski/web-sitescalingpartnerwebinar
• https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/
• http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/MigrateS3ToCloudFront.html
• https://www.davidbaumgold.com/tutorials/host-static-site-aws-s3-cloudfront/
• https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/faqs/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9Xt1qzD6SA
• https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/dynamic-content/
• http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/request-rate-perf-considerations.html
• https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/webinars/