ec2-api-tools

I have a server from amazon's ec2 service running on Linux Ubuntu ( Ubuntu Server 13.04 64 bit) and I have installed apache, php, and mysql. I have added a .htaccess file in my document root (i.e /var/www/). Here is the code in .htaccess file as follows: RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php If I remove .php from url like "index1" instead of "index1.php", it returns 404 browser error. It works properly in my previous server. I have .htaccess enabled in server. I did it using command "sudo vim /etc

I am using AWS Java API RunInstance() to start a new EC2 instance from my custom AMI image. How do I pass environment variables to the new EC2 INSTANCE such as database url, AWS credentials etc. ? jcomeau_ictx http://alestic.com/2009/06/ec2-user-data-scripts explains how to do this with user-data. for gotchas about using Java see AmazonEC2 launch with userdata . note that I've seen mention that this doesn't work with Windows, only Unix. [update] more data on setting environment variables here: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=139744 [after much testing] for me, echoing the

Although vmdk disk format is supported by ec2-import-instance tool, every time I try to run the command on a vmdk file, I get the following error: ERROR: File uses unsupported compression algorithm 0 I invoke the tool in the following format: ec2-import-instance -f vmdk -o <ACCESS KEY> -w <SECRET KEY> <VMDK file> I am using ec2 tools version 1.6.6.1. Looks like it's got nothing to do with "compression algorithm" but instead more to do with supported vmdk formats as documented in http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/VMImportPrerequisites.html ERROR: File uses unsupported

I installed the ec2 api following the amazon guide. I setted up the access id and secret as environment variable. Here it is my profile: export AWS_ACCESS_KEY=XXXXX export AWS_SECRET_KEY=XXXXXX export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre export EC2_HOME=/usr/local/ec2/ec2-api-tools-1.7.1.0 export PATH=$PATH:$EC2_HOME/bin Everythings looks configured as asked, but i can't connect to aws. Here the output of the command ec2-describe-regions in verbose mode: Client.AuthFailure: AWS was not able to validate the provided access credentials ubuntu@ip:~$ ec2dre -v Setting User-Agent to [ec2