Comments on: Tutorial: Running a php/mySQL server on EC2 with EBS

By: dennis

dennis — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:58:08 +0000

hey, is it possible to assign more than one IP in one EC2 instance?

I want to host all my websites in one EC2 instance, is this possible?

Thanks for your help.

By: ian homer

ian homer — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:17:39 +0000

Cheers John – great clear article and helped with my first venture into using EBS.

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By: kapil

kapil — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:23:59 +0000

Thanks! Very useful information, crisp and to the point … Jimeh, thanks for the advice, will keep in mind

By: Robin van Emden

Robin van Emden — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:29:21 +0000

Thanks! Following your tutorial I was able to start a LAMP/EC2/EBS server within 10 minutes, joy!

By: jimeh

jimeh — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:52:18 +0000

Thanks for this post, saved me a lot of Googling when I hooked up my first Instance

By: jnousis

jnousis — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:45:28 +0000

Thanks for the useful tip jimeh!

By: jimeh

jimeh — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:29:13 +0000

I learned the hard way that it’s a little bit of a bad idea to mount the EBS volume under /ebs1 (or as anything else under /).

When/if you later bundle the instance to an AMI, the /ebs1 folder will be included in the image, which means even if you attach the EBS volume to that new instance, you’ll first have to clean out the /ebs1 folder.

Hence it’s better to mount it to /mnt/ebs1, as /mnt is one of the folders excluded by the AMI tools.

I setup an AMI which points Apache/PHP config files, MySQL data, and web app files to /mnt/ebs1/. All I need to do to get another instance running ready for another web app to be deployed is simply to start the instance from my AMI, create and attach an EBS volume based on a prepared snapshot, and then run the following commands:
$ mkdir /mnt/ebs1
$ mount /dev/sdh /mnt/ebs1
$ /etc/init.d/apache2 start
$ /etc/init.d/mysql start

The AMI I was working with runs Ubuntu 8.04, hence the different commands to launch Apache and MySQL from what’s in the article above.

By: jnousis

jnousis — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 14:33:03 +0000

@Nikos: You can do this by customizing your instance and having it mount the EBS at boot time. Also, rightscale provides a way to run scripts for every instance you run so it is configured automatically.

@Brad: Very good tutorial! Especially the instructions for bundling the AMI are very handy since I didn’t include them at all in my post.

By: Brad Larson

Brad Larson — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:56:30 +0000

If you’re interested in more detail on EC2 and EBS, I posted a little writeup on my site about installing the Drupal CMS on EC2: http://www.sunsetlakesoftware.com/2008/09/13/running-drupal-website-amazon-ec2 .

I take the same tack as you did with the step-by-step instructions. Additionally, I include some tips on bundling your own AMI and setting up automatic hourly snapshot backups to S3.