I tried my best to deploy rails website on ec2, Unfortunately, I got some weird error like “Symbolic link not allowed” More details here ->
Deployed rails site on ec2 using capistrano, but it doesn't show up on the browser, here is the site -> http://passionate4.net/
Question: Is there a better way to choose ubuntu ami? Will that make the difference?
You have configuration issue. Just fix it.
Have you set
Options FollowSymLinksin your HTTPD config?