How to create an instance for Magento in Amazon Cloud EC2

You can also get this ebs Image in Amazon EC2. Choose “426063643107/Magento 1.4.x on Fedora 8″
when you launch an instance in the tab “Community AMIs”
MySQL Admin Username: root Password: 123456

Once the image is initialized
a) Install Magento 1.4.1.1 (For demo store follow 5.1)
In your browser go to: http://YOUREC2NAME.compute-1.amazonaws.com/magento/
b) Install Magento 1.4.1.1 DEMO Version
In your browser go to: http://YOUREC2NAME.compute-1.amazonaws.com/magento-demo/

1) Choose the simplest Instance Fedora Core 8 (AMI Id: ami-df1e35ab)
Minimal Fedora Core 8, 32-bit architecture, Apache 2.0, and Amazon EC2 AMI Tools.

2) Installing Remi Repository with Apache, MySQL and PHP

wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-8.rpm
rpm -Uvh remi-release-8.rpm
vi /etc/apt/sources.list.d/remi.list # Uncomment: repomd http://rpms.famillecollet.com/ fc$(VERSION).$(ARCH)

# Installing MySQL
#
yum --enablerepo=remi install mysql mysql-server mysql-devel

# Installing Http Server with PHP
#
yum --enablerepo=remi install php php-mysql php-common php-gd php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-devel php-xml

# Config MySQL
#
/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password '123456'

# Config Apache
#
# /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.con on Line 326 change
AllowOverride None
# to
AllowOverride All
# inside <Directory "/var/www/html"> ... </Directory>

# /etc/php.ini Activate this line to read <? tags
short_open_tag = On

#Try it out with the usual script in /var/www/html/test.php
&lt;?php
phpinfo();
?>

3) Installing Exim Mail Server

yum install exim
/etc/init.d/exim start
mail -s "testing" your@emailaddress.com
Testing purpose!
.
Cc:
# Your Mail Server should be running properly

4) SFtp Server Access

# Just using a SFtp Client Server Vicomsoft Ftp Client
#  configure a new connection without password and use
#  the option "Use SSH keyfile (SFTP only)" to add your
#  .pem file
#  Or just use
sshfs -i MYSECRETKEY.pem root@YOUREC2NAME.compute-1.amazonaws.com:/ /

5) Using ntsysv command choose the next services to start automatically
sendmail
httpd
mysqld

6) Optionally you can give NFS support to share files between images

#Server1
[root@server1]# vi /etc/exports
/var/www/html *(rw)

[root@server1]# /etc/init.d/rpcbind start

[root@server1]# /etc/init.d/nfs start
#Server2
[root@server2]# mount -o nolock ec2-79-xxx-xx-xxx.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:/var/www/html /mnt

7) Download and uncompress Magento versions in /var/www/html

CHANGELOG
File /etc/php.ini change short_open_tag = On

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