Running the BitNami Drupal AMI on EC2

Hi,

I got an instance running on Amazon EC2 using BitNami Drupal AMI and have been working with the Drupal CMS. I haven’t been able to SSH into the root. I was also wondering about phpmyadmin(ing) into MySQL and also moving Drupal up to the root of the site.

I use drupal on HostMonster.com and BlueHost.com and have to admit I have gotten really spoiled by their simplified CPanel approach.

Any documentation would be great! Thanks in advance.

OK, I have been able to take care of my immediate problems by finally getting in with SSH. But I was still wondering how secure you thought this configuration was and if you are working on additional Drupal builds for EC2.

Thanks for the public AMI and the original step-by-step tutorial it made my learning of AWS a lot more pleasant.

Hi,

> I was still wondering how secure you thought this configuration was

What you mean by “configuration”? AWS, OS, MySQL… configuration ? Your EC2 instances are protected by AWS firewall which you can configure by setting proper “security group”.

> and if you are working on additional Drupal builds for EC2.

We are trying to update BitNami AMIs as often as possible, the latest Drupal 6.15 is already supported.

> Any documentation would be great!

The stack is installed in /opt/bitnami by default. You can find README file there as well.

http://bitnami.org/files/stacks/drupal/6.15-0/R…
http://bitnami.org/tutorials/amazon_machine_images

Please let me know if it answers your questions.

Danoo

Thanks for the quick response. I was just wondering if you were going to continue building for EC2 and it sounds as if you will… Great.

I have been working with Drupal, and actually added a second application for email marketing. I tried to re-bundle the running instance into a backup AMI that I could re-launch at any time. I get the error:

Timed out waiting for user input: arch
Please specify a value for arch [i386]:

I looked through Amazon’s AWS forums but didn’t get a clear picture of the problem. Any thoughts. I’m new to this whole Cloud computing and AMI image making.

I also was wondering if you were considering making an EBS AMI that could be stopped and started as well as terminated. Along with being more persistent, Amazon allows you to take snapshots of the AMI right from the AWS Management Console.

Thanks.