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I would like to run OSQA on Amazon EC2. I understand that there are rumours of an AMI with OSQA on Windows (though I haven't seen one myself). Is there a ready made image with OSQA & Linux? Preferablly this image should also have all the necessary tweaks: South installed, and database moved from SqlLite to something else (mysql?). The reason I prefer Linux over Windows is simply the lower licensing cost. This sounds like the ideal installation method to me - just copy this image and fire it up. Should I try and prepare one? I would much rather for someone that knows his way around OSQA a bit better to do it - so far my installation of OSQA has been less than perfect (slow server, actually getting 500 internal server errors right now!) See also this related question |
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I've taken Clay's image, updated it to revision 886 and taken another image from that. The amazon ID of the image is "ami-30bb4659" and it's a US-East image (in fact all the details are the same as per Clay's post). Can you recap some of the problems Clay's image had? I'm currently using that, and I'd like to upgrade eventually.
(18 Mar '11, 11:18)
ripper234 ♦
Without knowing your specifics, I can't guess why your site would have crashed every 2-3 days. We run a lot of OSQA sites, however, and they pretty much never crash. Just sayin...
(18 Mar '11, 12:15)
rickross ♦♦
Hmm. I expect it to be free :) Can you provide a short explanation on how to migrate from an existing 15GB setup to 10GB?
(20 Mar '11, 07:58)
ripper234 ♦
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I just submitted a basic OSQA installation image to Amazon for review for publishing. Based on Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit, it's an EBS-backed image that runs a skeleton OSQA installation consisting of Apache, MySQL, and of course OSQA itself. The only other service running is SSH, necessary for logging in remotely. It looks like it could take a week until Amazon approves the OSQA public image publish request, so I will post the URL to that published image as soon as it becomes available. In the meantime, the AMI ID of the public image is "ami-24e7114d", hopefully you can access that already. A few notes:
Thanks a lot - I think this is a great step to making OSQA more accessible. We'll give it a try as soon as possible.
(20 Dec '10, 12:19)
ripper234 ♦
The AMI is not accessible yet, we'll just have to wait.
(21 Dec '10, 16:53)
ripper234 ♦
Seems that I was mistaken - I was looking at the "us-west-1", and you created the AMI under "us-east-1". I managed to connect and setup a basic OSQA installation via this AMI. There a few details that need to be ironed out (especially the instance size - this one seems to only allow 'large' instances, while I need a micro instance).
(21 Dec '10, 19:26)
ripper234 ♦
(22 Dec '10, 03:09)
ripper234 ♦
I just launched the AMI "ami-24e7114d" as a microinstance without problems. I even created an EBS image. Runs smoothly... @Ripper: the micro option is available for me, i guess... may it be related to your location?... actually, I'm exactly in a us-east zone. thanks to @claycarpenter
(22 Dec '10, 16:26)
Fernando
@Fernando - it appears that the micro instance is available through the Amazon Webconsole. I was trying to launch it via ElasticFox, where it simply didn't appear. Thanks!
(23 Dec '10, 01:54)
ripper234 ♦
I don't have rights to comment, but link is broken in accepted answer.
(01 Feb '11, 04:38)
David
@David - thanks. It appears @rickross fixed it. @rickross - why do wiki pages get broken? On MediaWiki you usually turn a page to a redirect, never delete it, so there aren't any broken links.
(01 Feb '11, 07:56)
ripper234 ♦
I'm succeeding to login as osqa with password 'osqa', but failing to login to user root with password 'root'. Are you sure the root user is indeed 'root' ?
(20 Feb '11, 08:23)
ripper234 ♦
@claycarpenter, @rickross, can you help me with this question? http://meta.osqa.net/questions/7078/what-is-the-root-user-password-in-the-ec2-osqa-image
(16 Mar '11, 05:59)
ripper234 ♦
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We just posted free AMIs with v0.9.0beta3-0 on Ubuntu. AMIs are available for all currently available Amazon regions. As we'll be updating these regularly as new releases become available, I'm including a link to our BitNami Stack page, which will always have the most up-to-date AMI IDs: http://bitnami.org/stack/osqa#cloudImage (see the top of that page for links to readmes and changelogs) Thanks guys! Awesome to see the OSQA logo up there. We should be releasing a new version here in the next week or so (maybe 1.0? :)).
(28 Jul '11, 15:53)
matt ♦♦
Thanks Matt. Any chance that you can link to the stacks from the Download pages. In particular, in our experience, a lot of people may want to play with the AMIs as with the Amazon Free Tier you basically can get your own private OSQA deployment for free. If our tests go well, we will be phasing out our BitNami forums, etc. and moving to OSQA in the next couple of weeks, that should give OSQA more visibility as well. Looking forward to a 1.0 :)
(29 Jul '11, 05:15)
Daniel
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Thanks Matt. Any chance that you can link to the stacks from the Download pages? In particular, in our experience, a lot of people may want to play with the AMIs as with the Amazon Free Tier you basically can get your own private OSQA deployment for free. If our tests go well, we will be phasing out our BitNami forums, etc. and moving to OSQA in the next couple of weeks, that should give OSQA more visibility as well. Looking forward to a 1.0 :)
(29 Jul '11, 05:16)
Daniel
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