Setting up an ec2 ubuntu map server

SETTING UP UBUNTU 11.10 (Oneiric) EC2 INSTANCE

1. Log in at console.aws.amazon.com

2. Go to alestic.com and choose Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric EBS boot (us-east-1)

3. Choose instance type Medium and availability zone us-east-1d.

4. Choose your keypair.

5. Create a security group called [clientname]. Open ports: 80, 22, 443, and 8133.

6. Launch your instance

CONFIGURE THE EC2 INSTANCE

8. Log into the server with:

    ssh -i your-keypair-full-path ubuntu@public-dns
   

9. sudo apt-get update

10. sudo apt-get upgrade --fix-missing

11. sudo apt-get install git --fix-missing

12. Get package tools

    sudo apt-get install python-pip
    

INSTALLING MAPNIK

13. sudo apt-get update

14. Go to https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/wiki/UbuntuInstallation

    To install the stable version of Mapnik 2.x:
    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mapnik/nightly-2.1
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install libmapnik mapnik-utils python-mapnik
    

15. Get TileStache set up:

    sudo easy_install -U gunicorn
    sudo apt-get install python-imaging
    sudo pip install -U modestmaps
    sudo pip install -U tilestache
    sudo pip install -U cssutils
    sudo pip install -U cascadenik
    sudo apt-get install python-psycopg2 python-shapely
    

INSTALLING AND SETTING UP A POSTGIS-ENABLED POSTGRES DATABASE

16. sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.1 postgresql-server-dev-9.1 postgresql-contrib-9.1 postgresql-9.1-postgis

17. CONFIGURE THE POSTGRES DATABASE:

    Test you can log in to the database with:

    sudo -u postgres psql
    

    Background reading: https://help.ubuntu.com/11.10/serverguide/C/postgresql.html

    Edit the access permissions (or pico)

    sudo vim /etc/postgresql/9.1/main/pg_hba.conf
    

    Made this section all have trust at the line ends:

        # Database administrative login by Unix domain socket
        local   all             postgres                                trust
        
        # TYPE  DATABASE        USER            ADDRESS                 METHOD
        
        # "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
        local   all             all                                     trust
        # IPv4 local connections:
        host    all             all             127.0.0.1/32            trust
        # IPv6 local connections:
        host    all             all             ::1/128                 trust
        # Allow replication connections from localhost, by a user with the
    

    Then restart Postgrest so that takes effect:

    sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql restart
    

18. Set up your PostGIS template

    Read: https://github.com/nvkelso/geo-how-to/wiki/PostGIS

    Alternatively: http://wygoda.net/blog/postgis-template-database-ubuntu-1110/

VIEW ON THE INTERNETS!

19. sudo apt-get install apache2-mpm-prefork

20. sudo a2enmod userdir

    Note: "a2enmod" == "apache2 enable module"

21. Make sure you have a public_html dir inside your usr dir.