Question

I have to set up a dev/test platform on the Amazon Web Service. So I was told, “install it” but I have no clue how to do that. I’m very used to 1&1, OVH and other hosting companies on which I upload my data through FileZilla but here it seems to be completely different. Am I wrong?

I read that I would need to install centOS to communicate with the server, right? is there no other way to do so? FileZilla?

And By the Way, how do I set up Magento on AWS? I found some documentation about it :

http://loadstorm.com/2009/magento-setup-amazon-associates-web-service

http://www.zetaprints.com/magentohelp/category/overview/

http://www.greengecko.co.nz/magento_on_amazon_ec2

But each time, it seems that I missed something in the first lines, the VERY FIRST step.
Could someone enlightene me please because I think I missed something at the starting point of this process and I clearly don’t understand the way it works.

I downloaded both elasticFirefox extension and S3 organizer, but they are not very helpful for the understanding. In each of the docs I have read, the guy starts from a point I can’t reach ..

PS: I’ve started developing the website with Magento so it is about transfering this version of Magento instead of installing a new one .. except if it’s much much more complicated ..

Any Help or full documentation would be appreciated 🙂

Thanks for your help !

Answer 1

I did something very much alike (using CentOS 5.5 on rackspase) – follow the steps below. all the lines that start with “–” should be treated as remarks. Before you start “transferring” Magento you should install PHP, httpd and MySql:

— MySql

yum install mysql-server

— httpd

yum install httpd

— open port 80 in iptables

vi  /etc/sysconfig/iptables

— add a line:

-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT

— configure httpd.conf (enable the use of .htaccess)

vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

change the line under “< Directory “/var/www/html >” from “AllowOverride None” to “AllowOverride All”

— install php 5

rpm -ivh http://repo.webtatic.com/yum/centos/5/`uname -i`/webtatic-release-5-1.noarch.rpm
yum --enablerepo=webtatic install php
yum --enablerepo=webtatic install php-mysql

— go to /var/www/html

cd /var/www/html

— and copy there all the content of Magento
–then clean cache if any:

rm -rf /var/www/html/<your app>/var/cache/*

— you have to create a schema:

mysql
mysql> create database [your schema name];
mysql> grant all privileges on [your schema name].* to [your username]@localhost identified by '[your password]';

— create sql dump on your computer:

mysqldump [your schema name] > [your schema name].sql

— and import it on centos

mysql [your schema name] <   [your schema name].sql;

–Make sure that the username/password are configured properly:

vi <your app>/app/etc/local.xml

— Login the DB as [your user]:

mysql -u [your user] –p

— Locate the entry that is configured to localhost (since you developed it on your computer) and change it to the installation-server’s IP (say 1.1.1.1):

select path, value from [your schema name].core_config_data where path like '%base_url%';
update [your schema name].core_config_data set value = 'http:/<your domain>/<your app>/' where path like '%base_url%';

— now restart all the services

service iptables restart
service mysqld restart
service httpd restart

— Troubleshooting

In order to print error to screen follow these steps:
cd /var/www/html/<your app>/errors
cp local.xml.sample local.xml