Tom Buchok

Recurse Center alumnus.

EC2 Linux AMI and Node

Each time I spin up a brand-new EC2 instance and install Node, I ended up with a trillion open tabs looking up obscure details to get through the installation.

If nothing else, the below will be helpful for the next time:

• Spin up a brand new EC2
• Select “Security Groups” in the EC2 console and ensure that Inbound > HTTP (Port 80) on Source: 0.0.0.0/0 will open up the instance for HTTP requests
• Set up the SSH keys with the .pem file

ssh -i /path/to/file.pem ec2-user@ec2-xxx-xx-xx-xx.compute-1.amazonaws.com/

• SSH into the server and install some things:

yum install gcc-c++

yum install git

yum install nginx _# if you want nginx_

• Install Node

git clone git://github.com/joyent/node.git

cd node/

git branch -al # find latest release branch

git checkout

./configure

make

This will take 15 to 30 minutes.

sudo make install

Create an image of your instance — compiling Node will take while. Visit the EC2 console, select the instance and follow the steps from Actions > Create Image

Have fun!