Randy L's questions

I'm very new to terraform so maybe this is not a great question. But I'm running through [this Amazon EC2 example] and at one point it tries to SSH to the machine, I assume to install nginx. This is always bombing out for me, and I just see repeated attempts to login to the server.

It has occurred to me that perhaps this is because on this first login attempt SSH is asking for me to trust the remote machine and add it to the known_hosts file. There's no point at which I am (visibly) prompted for this.

So now I wonder, exactly how does terraform handle known_hosts. I cloned down the repo and grepped through it for known_hosts, but found nothing.

I am trying to use a Public Dataset with the snapshot id of snap-­e1608d88. I am looking at these instructions, but they do not seem to help.

The first suggestion there says I should click on Volumes and create a new volume, set it's size and availability zone, as well as specifying the snapshot id. The problem is, snapshot id is a dropdown, not a text field, and there are over 100 options in the dropdown.

Next I installed the ec2 command line tools and tried to run the ec2-create-volume command. For my first attempt I tried ec2-create-volume --snapshot snap-­e1608d88 --availability-zone us-east-1 but that gave output indicating I need to provide a certificate with the --cert switch. Which certficate exactly? I tried my SSH cert at ~/.ssh/id_rsa. No dice. I got the following Java error: "org.codehaus.xfire.fault.XFireFault: General security error;"

I have hosting with GoDaddy, and my account supports multiple domains. My directory structure looks like ~/html, and then ~/html/site1, ~/html/site2, etc. In ~/html I have files for my "main" website, then in ~/html/site1 etc, I have files for my other domains.

The root site is a CakePHP site using mod_rewrite for pretty URLs. When I have the rewrite rules in place it breaks site1, site2, and so on. So I need to tweak my .htaccess to ignore those other sites.

Is there a rule I can add which will not apply mod_rewrite and .htaccess to the subfolders containing my other sites?

Has anyone here tried taking a crusty old MySQL 3.23 database and upgrading it all the way to MySQL 5 or 5.1? I've found a little bit of info on this but not a whole lot. What I've read so far is that it's best to not skip a major version number when upgrading. So I would have to go from 3.23 -> 4.xx -> 5.

If anyone out there has direct experience and some advice, I'd love to hear from you.