Setting up Centos 5.6 with PHP 5.3 on Amazon EC2 with ec2-consistent-snapshot

# Command order to get a CentOS 5.6 running with PHP 5.3 and ec2-consistent-snapshot running on AWS

# Change hostname
hostname YOUR_HOSTNAME
vi /etc/sysconfig/network
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HOSTNAME=YOUR_HOSTNAME
NETWORKING=yes
NETWORKING_IPV6=no
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#Install PHP and modules and APC
yum install php53 php53-mbstring php53-mysql php53-gd gd php53-imap php53-ldap php53-pdo php53-cli php53-pear php53-devel httpd-devel pcre-devel php-pear
pear upgrade --force Console_Getopt
pear upgrade --force pear
pear upgrade-all
pear version
pecl install apc

# Attach and mount a AWS EBS volumn (ec2-consistent-snapshot prefers xfs) 
# Make sure there is xfs support
yum install kmod-xfs xfsdump xfsprogs dmapi
mkfs.xfs  /dev/sdf
echo "/dev/sdf /vol xfs defaults,noatime 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
mkdir /vol
mount /vol

# Mysql
yum install mysql-server
mkdir /vol/mysql
chown -R mysql:mysql /vol/mysql
vi /etc/my.cnf

# Change the my.cnf file to 
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[mysqld]
datadir=/vol/mysql
user=mysql
log-warnings=2
log-error=/var/log/mysqld.log
default-storage-engine=innodb
skip-bdb
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock

[mysqld_safe]
log-error=/var/log/mysqld.log
pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
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service mysqld start
mysqladmin -u root password YOUR_PASSWORD
chkconfig mysqld on


# ec2-consistent-snapshot
perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan>o conf prerequisites_policy follow
cpan>o conf commit
perl -MCPAN -e "install(q{Bundle::CPAN})"
perl -MCPAN -e "install Net::Amazon::EC2"
yum -y install perl-DBD-MySQL
yum -y install 'perl(File::Slurp)'
yum -y install 'perl(DBI)'
yum -y install 'perl(Net::SSLeay)'
yum -y install 'perl(IO::Socket::SSL)'
yum -y install 'perl(LWP::Protocol::https)'
wget http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~alestic/ec2-consistent-snapshot/trunk/download/head:/ec2consistentsnapsho-20090928015038-9m9x0fc4yoy54g4j-1/ec2-consistent-snapshot
mkdir /home/ec2/bin/
mv ec2-consistent-snapshot /home/ec2/bin/
chmod 700 /home/ec2/bin/ec2-consistent-snapshot

# Create / EBS snapshot script
cd /root
vi snapshot_ebs_root.sh
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#!/bin/sh

PATH=/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/home/ec2/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/ho
me/ec2/bin:/root/bin

description="`hostname`-rootdrive-`date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S`"

ec2-consistent-snapshot --aws-access-key-id=YOUR_ACCESS_KEY --aws-secret-access-key=YOUR_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY \
--description=$description --region=eu-west-1 YOUR_VOLUME_ID
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chmod 700 snapshot_ebs_root.sh


# Create /vol EBS snapshot script
vi ./snapshot_ebs_vol.sh
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#!/bin/sh

PATH=/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/home/ec2/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/ho
me/ec2/bin:/root/bin

description="`hostname`-rootdrive-`date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S`"

ec2-consistent-snapshot --aws-access-key-id=YOUR_ACCESS_KEY --aws-secret-access-key=YOUR_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY \
--mysql-username=root --mysql-password=YOUR_DB_ROOT_PASSWORD --mysql-host=localhost --description=$description --mysql --region=eu-west-1 \
--freeze-filesystem='/vol' YOUR_VOLUME_ID
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chmod 700 snapshot_ebs_vol.sh


#Set the cronschedule for EBS snapshots
crontab -e
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54 6-23 * * * /root/snapshot_ebs_vol.sh > /dev/null 2>&1
59 22 * * * /root/snapshot_ebs_root.sh > /dev/null 2>&1
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# Change httpd DocumentRoot to /vol/www/default
vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
mkdir /vol/www/default
mkdir /vol/www/sites
chown -R apache:apache /vol/www
chkconfig httpd on
service httpd start

#Set server timezone
cd /etc
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/CET localtime