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Card store project #4: Notes on using Amazon's CloudFront

Date: 2008-12-27  |   Tags: aws, cardstore, django

I haven't been keeping up with the current events very well recently, but I haven't noticed a lot of people using Amazon's S3 or CloudFront with Django on VPS hosting. Though there is Adrian's post from 2006, I see more articles about serving media files with lighttpd or, more recently, nginx. Is a CDN unnecessary for our needs? I thought it'd be good to take some load off my VPS server since I need all the memory I can get for my Django web server and database. But maybe web servers such as nginx are ...

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Notes on Python deployment using Fabric

Date: 2008-09-28  |   Modified: 2008-10-10  |   Tags: aws, django, linux, python, ubuntu

I found out about Fabric via Armin Ronacher's article Deploying Python Web Applications. Fabric is a Capistrano inspired deployment tool for the Python community. It is very simple to use. There are 4 main commands: local is almost like os.system because it runs a command on the local machine, run and sudo run a command on a remote machine as either a normal user or as root, and put transfers a file to a remote machine.

Here is a sample setup which displays information about the Apache processes on my remote EC2 instance.

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Notes on using EC2 command line tools

Date: 2008-09-27  |   Modified: 2008-09-28  |   Tags: aws, linux, ubuntu

Create AWS accounts
Create a X.509 Certificate

Note: A X.509 Certificate is one type of Access Identifier. Access Identifiers are used to "identify yourself as the sender of a request to an AWS web service". There are two types of access identifiers: AWS Access Key Identifiers and X.509 Certificates. AWS Access Key Identifiers are supported by all Amazon Web Services and X.509 Certificates are supported only by ...

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Notes on Django and MySql on Amazon's EC2

Date: 2008-08-30  |   Modified: 2008-09-30  |   Tags: aws, django, sql, ubuntu

Install Elasticfox

Install the Elasticfox Firefox Extension for Amazon EC2: http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=609

Set up Amazon EC2 accounts and Elasticfox

Follow Arope's instructions for setting up Amazon EC2 accounts and Elasticfox. I used the alestic/ubuntu-8.04-hardy-base-20080628.manifest.xml machine image.

view standard apache page

In Elasticfox, right-click on your running instance and select "Copy Public DNS Name to clipboard". Then, paste that address in your browser. You should see Apache's "It works!" page.

ssh into instance

In Elasticfox, right-click on your running instance and select "SSH to Public Domain Name"

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