h1. 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





h2. Route53

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

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





h2. 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




h2. 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

q.
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.
q..

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