Hailwood's questions

So I've followed through this userguide for creating an AMI from an EBS backed Opsworks instance and it all seemed to go smoothly until I attempted to boot an instance in Opsworks from the new AMI.

Here's the setup log as a gist due to it exceeding the post size limit: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/hailwood/d064476a06dff214436378afea6b1930/raw/3024f52a3a93fdd47e3f72ddd4ba5960cb8ff9e2/error.log

But from what I can tell there is nothing interesting there. However when I ssh into the instance and check out /var/chef/runs/42bb....../chef.log I notice it;s only contents are the follwing (I've split this over two lines for easy reading):

/opt/aws/opsworks/current/bin/chef_command_wrapper.sh: line 96: 
/opt/chef/bin/chef-client: No such file or directory

Running a find / -name 'chef-client' tells me that the chef-client is actually installed in /usr/bin/chef-client but I'm not sure that's the issue as it does appear to be successfully running chef based on the error log above.

Our code base is using PHP 5.5 and we are wanting to deploy on AWS Opsworks however when selecting the PHP App Server layer we are told it has PHP 5.3.

What I was hoping is that I could just use the default PHP App Server layer and then specify php55 php55-cli and php-mcrypt as OS Packages -

However I end up with the below log.

My actual goal is this;

1. Install PHP 5.5, PHP 5.5-cli, PHP-Mcrypt
2. chmod app/storage (recursively) to be writeable
3. download composer.phar
4. run composer install
5. create the config files from a template using data from the layers custom json - mysql and redis settings.
6. create the apache2 virtual host to point to the new Laravel app that has been deployed via git

So any help here would be appreciated.

[2014-04-07T04:37:58+00:00] INFO: execute[Clean up] ran successfully
[2014-04-07T04:37:58+00:00] INFO: Processing package[php-mcrypt] action upgrade (dependencies::default line 14)
[2014-04-07T04:37:58+00:00] INFO: Processing package[php55] action upgrade (dependencies::default line 14)
[2014-04-07T04:37:58+00:00] INFO: package[php55] installing php55-5.5.7-1.65.amzn1 from amzn-updates repository

================================================================================
Error executing action `upgrade` on resource 'package[php55]'
================================================================================


Chef::Exceptions::Exec
----------------------
returned 1, expected 0


Resource Declaration:
---------------------
# In /var/lib/aws/opsworks/cache/cookbooks/dependencies/recipes/default.rb

14:     package rpm do
15:       action :upgrade
16:       version(version)
17:     end
18:   end



Compiled Resource:
------------------
# Declared in /var/lib/aws/opsworks/cache/cookbooks/dependencies/recipes/default.rb:14:in `block in from_file'

package("php55") do
action [:upgrade]
retries 0
retry_delay 2
package_name "php55"
version "5.5.7-1.65.amzn1"
cookbook_name "dependencies"
recipe_name "default"
end

I have just installed ubuntu (11.04).

I have installed apache/mysql/php etc.

I have a few sites sitting in

/var/www/site1
/var/www/site2
/var/www/site3

I want to be able to access these at
http://site1.local
http://site2.local
http://site3.local

So in my hosts file I have
127.0.0.1 site1.local
127.0.0.1 site2.local
127.0.0.1 site3.local

Then I have copied /etc/apache2/sites-available/default 3 times.

so now I have
/etc/apache2/sites-available/site1
/etc/apache2/sites-available/site2
/etc/apache2/sites-available/site3

These all look like (with appropriate sitex names)

<VirtualHost site1.local>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

    DocumentRoot /var/www/site1
    <Directory />
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
    </Directory>
    <Directory /var/www/site1/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride None
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
    </Directory>

    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
    <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
        AllowOverride None
        Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

    # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
    # alert, emerg.
    LogLevel warn

    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

    Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
    <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
        Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
        Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

In the terminal I then call

sudo a2ensite site1 site2 site3 && sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

Which seems to work, except only one of the vhosts works at the same time (including default), What am I doing wrong?

• Reloading web server config apache2
  apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name,
  using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
  [Fri Apr 15 10:45:27 2011] [warn] NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts

I am looking for a simple log reader, not something like awstats.

Just a program that I can have on my computer, download the log file through ftp, open the program, and eg.

see how many times a specific .zip file has been downloaded.

We have set up a Certificate Authority,

We have now created a certificate request.

How do we turn this certificate request into an actual certificate at the authority?

We have Setup

vpn.mysite.com and mysite.com to point to the same ip address which is one of our servers.

We are trying to setup IIS to have it redirect requests to vpn.mysite.com to one interal ip and just mysite.com to another internal ip.

The server that is handling this is the VPN server.

How would we go about setting this up in the DNS manager?