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Building PHP with nginx, and fast-cgi on EC2

Here’s my quick and dirty guide to building PHP with nginx and fast-cgi on EC2:

yum install mysqld
yum install mysql
yum install mysql-server
yum install mysql-devel
service mysqld start
/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'your_password'
/usr/bin/mysqld_safe &

yum install php-fpm php-cli php-mysql php-gd php-imap php-ldap php-odbc php-pear
 php-xml php-xmlrpc php-eaccelerator php-magickwand php-magpierss php-mbstring p
hp-mcrypt php-mssql php-shout php-snmp php-soap php-tidy

yum install spawn-fcgi
# Next, download spawn-fcgi init.d shell script:
wget http://bash.cyberciti.biz/dl/419.sh.zip
unzip 419.sh.zip
mv 419.sh /etc/init.d/php_cgi
chmod +x /etc/init.d/php_cgi
# Start php app server, enter:
/etc/init.d/php_cgi start

# check to see if it's running
netstat -tulpn | grep :9000

Your /etc/nginx/nginx.conf file should look like this:
https://gist.github.com/1961501

EC2 Backup Script

This is a quick and dirty EC2 backup script for virtual unix servers that works just fine when crontabbed:

#!/bin/bash

DATE=`date +%m%d%Y-%H%m%M`
BUCKET=”codebelay-$DATE”
PRIVATE_KEY=’pk-codebelay.pem’
PRIVATE_CERT=’cert-codebelay.pem’
USERID=’555555555555′
AWS_ACCESS_ID=’AKIA0000000000000′
AWS_SECRET=’asdf+asdf+asdf+asdf’

s3cmd mb s3://$BUCKET

cd /mnt
mkdir img
ec2-bundle-vol -d /mnt/img -k /mnt/$PRIVATE_KEY -c /mnt/$PRIVATE_CERT -u $USERID -s 9999 –arch i386
cd /dev
mkdir loop
cd loop
mknod 0 b 7 0

ec2-upload-bundle -b $BUCKET -m /mnt/img/image.manifest.xml -a $AWS_ACCESS_ID -s $AWS_SECRET

# rm -rf /mnt/img
echo “please register $BUCKET/image.manifest.xml” >> /mnt/registerbackups.txt