After 5 installations I have created this user guide that hopefully others will find useful. I wish to say that the vTiger Turnkey image is an excellent build. However the setup withing Amazon EC2 is a bit different so here is a step-by-step guide.
1. Find the Turnkey EC2 vTiger instance (I used: turnkey-vtiger-11.3-lucid-x86.ebs (ami-615a9108))
2. Start instance
3. Sit tight for about 5 minutes, get a cup of coffee
I'm using the VMware image of the Wordpress appliance. I created /etc/inithooks.conf to set my passwords, etc. I did this by mapping the .vmdk file, not by booting the VM, so it's never been run. I want everything to happen automatically during the first boot when I deploy it.
In addition to setting my passwords, I added "SEC_UPDATES=FORCE" to inithooks.conf and my problem is that I am still prompted to install updates during the first boot.
I installed the lamp appliance. I notice that the time stamp in the postfix logs are off by 4 hours. Advice from other forums was to copy /etc/localtime to /var/spool/postfix/etc
I've done so, but still not working. I find these "localtime" files on the system, and
they are identical:
I rebooted my Joomla16 server but it did not fully come back up. I could connect to it using putty but not thru the Hub. Apache was saying it could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName.
Someone suggested I enter localhost for the ServerName in httpd.conf and that thankfully worked.
Many times when I try to spawn a server from a backup I get a similar problem where apache doesn't run correctly. Hopefully, this will solve the problem going forward.
I can not seem to get my script to output to a page. PHP is working and I have mod_rewrite on. I have scoured the web for an answer with no luck. So I just did a fresh install so I will be starting from scratch if I should obtain an answer here.
My .htaccess file located in:
/var/www/mywebsite.com
looks like this:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on