Updates to the AMI and Drupal Core
Are there any suggestions for how to be manage updates to the Mercury AMI. Is there a way to update to a more recent AMI instead of having to remove the current AMI and then install the latest.
As well, any suggestions for how to update to the latest Drupal/Pressflow core build? I see that Drupal recently updated to 6.15, but my Mercury install is at 6.14.
Thank you
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Creeper module updated for CloudFusion, formerly known as Tarzan
The Creeper module has been updated to interface with CloudFusion which was formerly known as Tarzan. See more details on the module project page: http://drupal.org/project/creeper
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PIFR 2 client added to Pantheon
In order to support qa.drupal.org in testing Drupal 7, we've made a AMI of PIFR 2 on Debian Lenny (64-bit). The purpose of this client is to grab a test from qa.drupal.org, run it, and send the results back to the server.
If you wish to fire up an instance and donate to testing of Drupal 7, here are the instructions (from http://qa.drupal.org/node/44):
- Get an account on the master server or have someone add your client test server and provide you an API key.
EC2 Instances can now Boot from Amazon EBS
Amazon just announced a new feature that allows EC2 instances to boot directly from an EBS Volume. This means the root partition of the instance is actually stored on an EBS volume, making the instance completely persistent. After reading the documentation it appears you can also automatically attach multiple EBS volumes to the instance when it's launched.
Read moreMercury 0.81-Beta Released
Announcing the immediate release of Mercury 0.81-Beta for Amazon in 32 bit and 64 bit versions.
Read moreMercury 0.8-Beta released
We are please to announce the 0.8-Beta release of Mercury AMIs for AWS. Included with this release:
- Removed the predefined admin user from drupal. Now the first login defines the admin user
- Moved drupal cron from the root crontab to /etc/cron.d/drupal for more flexibilty
- Fixed as postifix misconfiguration bug
- Now using symlinks to store mysql, varnish (and now) tomcat data to /mnt rather than moving the actual directories
- A new script to configure varnish, php, tomcat and apc memory usage based on system RAM
Consistent EBS Snapshots for RAID arrays or single volume with Mercury
This wiki describes setting up consistent snapshots for EBS. It works with RAID arrays and a single volume. It also can be automated to run on a cron job.
Step 1: EBS Consistent Snapshots Installation
Instructions for installing ec2-consistent-backup can be found here: http://alestic.com/2009/09/ec2-consistent-snapshot.
Set-up access to Alestic PPA
codename=$(lsb_release -cs)
echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/alestic/ppa/ubuntu $codename main"|sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/alestic-ppa.list
Setting up EBS as a RAID
Last updated by Greg Coit on Thu, 2010-06-10 17:27
Very similar to setting up an instance with a single EBS drive, you can also fairly easily do a RAID configuration. This leads to better performance usually and higher reliability.
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Scaling at Amazon with Mercury?
Hello,
How does scaling work at Amazon if I start out with the smallest instance with a Mercury.
I have never used any of them, just doing my research on which way to go.
Would be as simple as clicking a few buttons on my Amazon control panel to get a bigger instance? :)
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Aegir in Mercury & other questions
Ok so I noticed your Aegir build but also noticed joshk's comment here http://groups.drupal.org/node/27134#comment-92680 So if its really different am I to assume it doesn't include all the goodies in Mercury? Im guessing so based on the description over at getpantheon.com ... so I currently have a dedicated server in which i have been running aegir for some time now quite happily ... what I wanted to know is if any of you are running Aegir inside your Mercury goodness? Are there any reasons not to?
Read moreEBS Restore
I need to reinstall Mercury but I fortunately had migrated mysql to an ebs volume. How would I reconnect to the mysql from Mercury?
Read moreSubversion
I'd like to implement subversion and just wondering if anyone here can provide a little guidance.
I visited the subversion site and am happy to follow along with their instructions, but just curious if there is anything I should consider specific to Mercury?
Thanks
Read moreUpload Progress Through APC
Drupal is also telling me that APC is capable of displaying upload progress, but it's not enable.
I added apc.rfc1867 = 1 at the end of the following files, but that didn't seem to fix the problem:
./etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
./etc/php5/cli/php.ini
Is it possible to enable Upload Progress through APC?
DRUPAL STATUS REPORT MESSAGE
Upload Progress Not enabled
Read morePHP GD library
I'm getting a status report message that the installed version of PHP GD is insufficient. I'm told that I should "recompile PHP --with-gd". Is there a reason why the Mercury AMI doesn't have the PHP GD library?
DRUPAL STATUS REPORT MESSAGE
GD Image Filtering Low Quality / Poor Performance
Read moreMove mySQL DB to EBS
Can someone please provide some instruction for how to move the db to an ebs?
Assuming:
- Create an EBS
- Move db from usr/share/mysql to ebs
- Update location in settings.php
Anything else?
Thanks!
Read moreLocation of Config Files
I'm trying to find some config files. Can someone please confirm their locations?
.htaccess = ./tmp/.htaccess
.htgroup = cant' find
.htpasswd = ./usr/bin/htpasswd
httpd.conf = /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
Thank you
Read moreUnauthorized Mail Being Sent
Hello,
AWS shut down my instance's mail sending abilities after they noticed that my instance was sending too many emails. I spoke with their support team and they confirmed that to avoid possible spam my instance was stopped from emailing. Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing that? I haven't shared my password key with anyone. It's stored locally on my computer. Outside of the Mercury AMI nothing else was installed. My mail.log file has a bunch of activity. Here's some for log entries:
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Mercury on OpenSolaris AMI
An FYI. I will be investigating creation of the Project Mercury environment on an OpenSolaris 2009.06 AMI, with the goal of publishing that AMI in the next month or two. Starting with joshk's excellent step-by-step on Jaunty, I hope to reproduce all these pieces in OSOL over the next few weeks. Comments? Things to watch out for? Look for a writeup here as I go...
Read moreThe directory sites/default/files is not writable
I'm having a problem with sites/default/files.
I have permissions set to 775.
If I recall I copied this directory from my previous server using the Mac Finder.
Any ideas what's going on?
Read moreStuck
I've gotten stuck dumping my old database into the new Mercury configuration. Would someone please let me know where to place the old .sql file.
Also, sql is a bit of a foreign world to me and I would love to get a copy of phpmyadmin running on the build. Any help is greatly suggested. I downloaded the phpmyadmin tool but got stuck pretty early in the process.
Thank you
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