With it, Amazon has removed the biggest barrier to entry for new startups and ideas by reducing the need of these companies to buy and build bare metal systems ones that can range in the tens of thousands just to start with. In other words, EC2 allows you to create a virtual computer in the cloud hosted somewhere (or in multiple somewhere’s) on some amazon bare metal servers.Ĭloud computing has allowed the startup world to explode with new and fantastic ideas. And the most important for this, EC2 is their “elastic computing” engine. S3 is their “simple storage service” allowing you to store files in the cloud. I’m not going to go in depth with all of the options available to you (that would take a series of posts all on their own), but as you can see AWS has a service for pretty much anything you could need. When you first login to AWS, you may be overwhelmed by the plethora of different links and choices that are displayed to you.
Please note that this tutorial is assuming that you’ve already signed up with Amazon and put your appropriate credit card information and such in if you can’t figure out how to do that you don’t have any business trying to do the rest of this Getting Started With AWS Creating Your First Instance The title is a mouthful, but basically what I’m going to run you through is starting up your first instance on EC2 and connecting to it, and from there installing Apache, PHP, MySQL (the LAMP stack) and then adding MongoDB. This tutorial should be valid as of 5/18/15. I know there are a good number of tutorials already covering this topic, but from what I learned myself is that most of them are outdated or missing small pieces of info that make them difficult to follow. With this new love for NoSQL databases, I figured I’d add in the installation of MongoDB to your instance as well.
I am now in my last quarter over at OSU’s Computer Science program and I’ve got one more of these how to guides, so I figured I’d write one out on setting up a full stack with AWS since I had a difficult time getting started with it myself. Hey again everyone, it’s that time of the year again. This example uses the 'admin' database and the 'root' user.How to Setup a Full-Stack LAMP server with MongoDB on Amazon EC2 Then edit the 'app.js' file to change the default MongoDB connection.
You can clone this project from GitHub repository:
The following sample application uses the MongoDB driver for Node.js. Now you can deploy your your first Express application. Note that this applies mainly to native installers, not for Virtual Machines or cloud images.įor instance, you can create your first Express application running the following command from a Terminal: BitNami stacks ship a script that loads this environment for all platforms we support.
If you have enabled RockMongo during the installation you can also manage your MongoDB from this web application.īecause BitNami MEAN stack is self-contained, it runs independently from the rest of the software or libraries installed on your system, and you will need to load specific environment variables. Once the installation process has been completed, you can access the welcome page from your browser at on Windows or on OS X or Linux.
This application is an example of how to deploy Node.js applications in high availability mode in the Azure cloud.