Getting your Drupal EC2 instance fully functional

This is for me. This could also be for you. thats why I'm posting it.

I needed to get a fully functioning Drupal installation running on a Free Amazon EC2 cloud instance. I had to pull in multiple websites in order to do it. and interspersed are some bits of wisdom that i needed to know in order to get things like "Module Install" to work.

Getting it up and running
http://www.thingaweek.com/how-install-drupal-amazon-ec2

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Heres a Document I found with some nice optimizations for EC2

http://www.diginmotion.com/faq/108-running-a-website-on-amazon-ec2.pdf

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Owning up to files

chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/sites/default/files

A few notes on .htaccess and Clean URLS

So yeah, clean URL's werent funcitoning so i had to edit the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file and find the AllowOverride None and change it to Allow Override All

Then find the AccessFileName and make sure it was set to .htaccess
.htaccess should already be set up correctly from Drupal!

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A few notes on Drush

So if you are using Drush to install and enable modules for drupal you should know this:

If a Drush fails a module download, it will also probably fail to install as well.

So in that case do a manual download through your Drupal install, and then manually enable it as well.

Word to the wise.

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