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AMI ID:	ami-d9ee0eb0
AMI Manifest:	sun-opensolaris-2008-11-hardened/hardened_2008.11_32_AMP_Drupal_V1.1.img.manifest.xml
AKI/ARI ID:	aki-6552b60c / ari-6452b60d
License:	Public

Description:

Sun Microsystems Inc. is pleased to announce the release of Drupal AMI with AMP Stack based on Hardened OpenSolaris 2008.11 AMI on Amazon EC2's cloud computing service. 

This 32-bit AMI gives you the power and security of OpenSolaris combined with the flexibility of Amazon's cloud computing service, and is optimized for Amazon EC2's cloud computing environment.

Following components are included in the AMI.

• Drupal 6.10 (pre-configured state) 
• Apache 2.2, MySQL 5.0 
• PHP 5.2 (along with extensions like APC, DTrace, Suhosin, Memcache) runtime 
• phpMyAdmin for administering the MySQL data base
• OpenSolaris AMI Hardening update.  For Hardening Details, please visit  http://wikis.sun.com/display/ISC/OpenSolaris+AMI+Hardening

Configurations:

• Drupal (bundled within this AMI in pre-configured state) is available under location /var/drupal-6.10

• Drupal specific configuration for Apache Web Server is available within /etc/apache2/2.2/conf.d/drupal.conf.

• Users can launch and configure Drupal by accessing http://<DNS name associated with the instance> in their browser.

• Apache and MySQL services are pre-configured to start on boot.

• If you would like to use phpMyAdmin, you will need to do the following:

                  # cp /etc/apache2/2.2/samples-conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf /etc/apache2/2.2/conf.d/

                  # svcadm restart http:apache22

• Drupal recommends having a database protected with a valid user name and password to be created on the system before configuring Drupal. Hence, users are advised to either use 'ssh' to login to your AMI or phpMyAdmin to create such database before proceeding to configuring Drupal.

• DTrace probes are available within Apache and PHP runtime. Sample Dtrace scripts are available under /opt/DTT/

For more details on security information and image usage instructions, please refer to the '/root/ec2sun/
README' file.

AMP Stack File Layouts

	Apache	PHP	MySQL
Binary Runtime Files	/usr/apache2/2.2/bin	/usr/php/5.2/bin	/usr/mysql/5.0/bin
Configuration Files	/etc/apache2/2.2	/etc/php/5.2	/etc/mysql/5.0
Web Documents / Data Files	/var/apache2/2.2	/var/php/5.2	/var/mysql/5.0

Administering AMP Stack

Command	Apache	MySQL
Start Service	svcadm enable http:apache22	svcadm enable mysql:version_50
Stop Service	svcadm disable http:apache22	svcadm disable mysql:version_50
Restart Service	svcadm restart http:apache22	svcadm restart mysql:version_50

You can reset MySQL 'root'password by running following command:

# /usr/mysql/5.0/bin/mysqladmin -u root -p password '<MySQL password>'

It is highly recommended to secure your MySQL database by following the guidelines mentioned within the MySQL 5 database documentation:

The root file system is ZFS in this AMI and includes the pre-installed packages and tools necessary to get started with using OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2. You can obtain more details about the OpenSolaris project at http://www.opensolaris.org.

Also, just like in our previous AMIs, the "pkg image-update" command updates the kernel and ramdisk which is not allowed in Amazon EC2. Therefore, in order to prevent your instances from becoming non-compatible with the Amazon EC2 environment, we have disabled this command.

More details including re-bundling instructions can be found in the Getting Started Guide. 

Support:

For technical support during the Beta period, please contact ec2­-solaris­-support[AT]SUN[DOT]COM.

Please check OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2 blog for latest updates and new information about OpenSolaris AMIs.

The "OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2 Getting Started Guide" is located at:
http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/amazon/Sun_AmazonEC2_GettingStartedGuide.pdf

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