This is for me. This could also be for you. That’s why I’m posting it.

I needed to get a fully functioning Drupal installation running on a Free Amazon EC2 cloud instance. I had to pull in multiple websites in order to do it. Interspersed are some bits of wisdom that I needed to know in order to get things like “Module Install” to work.

Getting it up and running http://www.thingaweek.com/how-install-drupal-amazon-ec2

Using Putty to SSH on Windows? http://pinehead.tv/linux/connect-to-amazon-ec2-using-putty-private-key-o

Access your server through ssh:

ssh ec2-user@IP -i keyname.pem

did you email yourself the key?

chmod 400 keyname.pem

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8193768/trying-to-ssh-into-an-amazon-

Setting up SFTP access http://matthom.com/archive/2011/09/01/setting-up-amazon-ec2-instances

sudo su -
chown -R ec2-user /var/www/html
chmod -R 755 /var/www/html

Using Filezilla for SFTP? http://www.codestore.net/store.nsf/unid/BLOG-20111012-0812

chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/sites (allows drupal to install modules without FTP installed)

Updating Drupal: http://www.echoditto.com/blog/updating-your-drupal-site-using-drush

drush up

Nice optimizations

http://www.diginmotion.com/faq/108-running-a-website-on-amazon-ec2.pdf

Own your files on EC2

chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/sites/default/files
chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/sites/all