First, choose any AMI(Amazon Machine Image) you like and lanuch it. In this tutorial, I will choose Amazon Linux AMI (64-bit) as example. If you choose other AMI, the circumstance might be quite different. I can’t guarantee the following tutorial steps are the same.
EC2 AMI: Amazon Linux AMI (64-bit)
last revision: 2014-08-21
here are the instructions:
Part 1. Add new user
after login server via SSH client, switch to root account first
sudo su
add a new user named "myuser"(change it as you want) in root group
useradd -s /bin/bash -m -d /home/myuser -g root myuser
set his password
passwd myuser
let us be able to login SSH via password without certification file
vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config
find the following line and change its value from no to yes
PasswordAuthentication yes
restart sshd to make change working
service sshd restart
give user the ability to use sudo command
visudo
find the following line and add the highlighted part.
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
myuser ALL=(ALL) ALL
if you don’t want to type password again while sudo, then you can change it as the following
myuser ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
okay! you can logout and login with the new user now.
Part 2. Install Stuff
To ensure that all of your software packages are up to date, process the following command first.
sudo su yum update -y
install build tools
yum install make automake gcc gcc-c++ kernel-devel git-core -y
install LAMP stuff. This will install a lot of things, Apache, MySQL, blah, blah...
yum groupinstall -y "MySQL Database" "PHP Support" yum install -y httpd-devel php-mysql
launch Apache and MySQL
service mysqld start service httpd start
set MySQL root password and add a new user
set root password
mysqladmin -u root password {your password}
if you meet the error “ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user ‘root’@'localhost’ (using password: NO)”, then do the following steps to fix it.
service mysqld stop
mysqld_safe --user=mysql --skip-grant-tables --skip-networking &
mysql -u root
mysql > use mysql
mysql > UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD('{your password}') where USER='root';
service mysqld start
login root
mysql -u root -p
add a new user
GRANT ALL ON *.* TO myuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY '{your password}';
install phpMyAdmin
you can just copy all of the following content and paste it on the console.
mkdir /home/tmp mkdir /home/myuser/www cd /home/tmp wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/files/phpMyAdmin/4.4.15.1/phpMyAdmin-4.4.15.1-all-languages.tar.gz tar -xzvf phpMyAdmin-4.4.15.1-all-languages.tar.gz -C /home/myuser/www cd /home/myuser/www mv phpMyAdmin-4.4.15.1-all-languages phpmyadmin cd phpmyadmin mkdir config chmod o+rw config cp config.sample.inc.php config/config.inc.php chmod o+w config/config.inc.php chown -R myuser:root /home/myuser/
open session permission for phpmyadmiin
sudo chmod 777 /var/lib/php/session
install required libraries
yum install -y php libmcrypt libmcrypt-devel php-mcrypt php-mbstring
modify Apache configuration
vim /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
find the following line and add the highlighted part.
User apache
Group apache
User myuser
Group root
add the following content on the end of configuration file
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /home/myuser/www
ServerName localhost
<Directory /home/myuser/www>
Options FollowSymLinks
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory /home/myuser/www/phpmyadmin>
Options FollowSymLinks
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
restart Apache
service httpd restart
make server auto-start Apache & MySQL after EC2 reboot
sudo chkconfig mysqld on sudo chkconfig httpd on
Part 3. Install Python Libraries
install mod_wsgi module(a bridge for Python(Django) & Apache, wsgi protocol, see here)
yum install -y mod_wsgi
You have to do the following routine to install mod_wsgi Again for specifing correctly apxs and python path.
cd /home/tmp wget https://github.com/GrahamDumpleton/mod_wsgi/archive/4.2.7.tar.gz tar zvxf 4.2.7.tar.gz cd mod_wsgi-4.2.7 ./configure --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs --with-python=/usr/bin/python27 make; make install
install virtualenv (a tool to create isolated Python environments. see here)
pip install virtualenv
install Python MySQL connector(a bridge for Python and MySQL. see here)
Yes, you have to repeat the mysql-connector-python name. Don’t ask me why… ~”~
pip install --allow-external mysql-connector-python mysql-connector-python
install Django (a python framework, support wsgi, see here)
pip install django
pip install django==1.8.18 (assign version)
install BeautifulSoup (a HTML parser for python, see here)
pip install beautifulsoup4
install django-celery (a Distributed Task Queue solution, see here)
pip install django-celery
install python-gcm (a Python client for Google Cloud Messaging for Android, see here)
pip install python-gcm
install Pillow (a Python Imaging Library, see here)
yum install libtiff-devel libjpeg-devel libzip-devel freetype-devel lcms2-devel libwebp-devel tcl-devel tk-devel pip install Pillow
Django app for handling the server headers required for Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)
pip install django-cors-headers
view installed packages
python
import pip
installed_packages = pip.get_installed_distributions()
installed_packages_list = sorted(["%s==%s" % (i.key, i.version)
for i in installed_packages])
print(installed_packages_list)
if you want to uninstall a package, type the following command
pip uninstall {package_name}
