Recipe for PHP4 on FC4

The site I am trying to run on EC2 runs on PHP4, not PHP5. FC4 uses PHP5 by default so I have to remove php5 and then reinstall php4.
So here’s my recipe
Remove PHP5
yum remove php
Get the PHP4 files that you need. You can check the FC3 update page for the most recent versions […]

Setting up my image on EC2

The set up I am working with is a Fedora Core 4 with Apache 2 and Mysql 5.
I used this video to help me get my image up and running. It is a good start for using EC2.
If you want a regular web site you need authorize port 80 for http - […]

Figuring out how this stuff works

One of my sites, Digital Podcast, is suffering because it’s overloading the shared server its on and is getting rate limited.
So, I need to move to a dedicated server. I want it to be an AWS EC2 server, so I can play in this new world and scale away.
I have my own box now, […]

Getting started

This is my blog about using Amazon’s Web Service platform to host and run some websites. I have currently overloaded my shared hosting environment and am suffering from limits being placed on my website connections.
AWS looks like an interesting alternative, so I thought I would give it a try.
I want to use EC2 […]