April's questions

I have uploaded some animated GIF banners to our S3 account and when we use the web url provided by S3 and try to view the banners in a browser, instead of display the banners in the browsers, I get prompted to download the banner image. Why is this?

When I uploaded a JPG image in the same S3 bucket and try to view it with a browser, I don't have this problem?

How do we solve this problem? We would like to syndicate our GIF banners through various affiliate sites. Could this cause issues at their end? The full URL of the banner is in this format banners.mydomain.com.s3.amazonaws.com/dining-728x90.gif. Even when we use the CNAME version we have the same issue. The CNAME version is banners.mydomain.com/dining-728x90.gif.

Trying to connect Drupal running from my localhost to a remote database but coming across issues.

I am using the following string in my settings.php file:

$db_url = 'mysqli://username:[email protected]/database_name';

I am getting the following error:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in C:\wamp\www\myapp\includes\database.mysqli.inc on line 115

What I am doing wrong?

Which MTA should I install on a Ubuntu hardy EC2 Instance? I hear that Postfix is the default MTA on Ubuntu.

I will also need installation and config instructions. This MTA will deliver mail to a SMTP server running outside of the AWS environment.

How do I enable Apache re-write engine in Ubuntu hardy?

Where is the php.ini file in Ubuntu hardy?

The file found in path called /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini.ucf-dist.

Do I need to rename file 'php.ini.ucf-dist' to 'php.ini'?

Where is the system currently reading the php information when I run info.php file?

I tried to compare one item what gets displayed when I run info.php file and when I edit the 'php.ini.ucf-dist' file. The 'memory_limit' shows 128M when I run info.php file but in the 'php.ini.ucf-dist' file it is set to 16M. So this cant be the same file being read by the system currently?

Thanks for help.

Which command should I use to download security uodates for Ubuntu Hardy?

Ideally would like the command to also create a log file listing files downloaded, install and any errors.

Thanks for help.

Where to find virtual host details and document root in Ubuntu Hardy?

For example, in Centos both information is available in httpd.conf file, whilst there is also a httpd.conf file found in Hardy, virtual hosts and document root information is not available.

Thanks for help.

How much memory should be allocated to memcache on a small EC2 intance (1.7 GB RAM). The OS is Ubuntu Hardy.

Thanks.

I have just installed memcache and eAccelerator on an Ubuntu Hardy box and prior to hosting an application on it wanted to check for any type of errors either thrown by PHP or by other modules. How do I do this?

Thanks for help.

How to install eAccelerator on Ubuntu Hardy?

I was following the instructions on this site: http://developer.mindtouch.com/en/kb/Improve_PHP_performance_with_eAccelerator_on_Ubuntu_8.04_%28Debian%29

but then got stuck at this command 'sudo phpize'. My servers says 'command not found'.

So what do I do from here?

I am looking for a plugin that would add the folloiwng on our blog site built on Wordpess slef hosted:

1. Authors' name to appear on every blog (below title where currentlly date and tags appear)
2. Authors page being added to our blog site
3. On authors page display authors' profile including bio, website, social network profile buttons and published posts.

So it would be more like how it is set-up at Mashable: http://mashable.com/author/pete-cashmore/.

Is there a plugin or plugins I could use to achieve these?

Thank for help.

What would be the best way to transfer 4.4 GB of user images to S3?

I would prefer to somehow directly trasnfer images from my current production server to a S3 bucket and without having to download images to my home mahchine first and then upload it to a S3 bucket.

Thanks.

If the use the following scp command then I get an error:

scp -P 22 [email protected]: /home/username/public_html/* ./

The error I get is:

stdin: is not a tty scp: .: not a regular file

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for help.

How do I change the ssh port to something other than 22 on Ubuntu Hardy?

How do I install and configure memcache on ubuntu hardy?

How to ban password use on Ubuntu Hardy?

I will be using Ubuntu instances on EC2 where passwords are not used but private keys are used to login via ssh.

Thanks for help.

We are working towards moving our app to AWS. I have heared that email and DNS cannot be hosted on AWS, is this correct?

If this correct, then what are my options?

Looking for a clarification and guidance on the best practice.

Where should we store images, CSS and log files of the application? Application server or S3?

We will be storing user related images and thumbnails on S3. We will not be using CloudFront at this stage until there is a real need.

Another set of questions I have is related to EBS. Should the application server use EBS volume? What is the benefit of doing this? Would we pay extra for using EBS.

Thanks.