AWS setting up command line tools in Ubuntu

Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2012



I use the amazon command line tools a lot, its often a quicker way to accomplish things quickly versus the AWS web interface,  though the AWS web interface has gotten a lot better over the past few years)


In this guide I am going to show how to set up the command lines tools using Ubuntu, I have another (slightly different guide for Cygwin)


This guide of course assumes you already have an Amazon AWS account.

AWS setting up command line tools in Cygwin



I use the amazon command line tools a lot, its often a quicker way to accomplish things quickly versus the AWS web interface,  though the AWS web interface has gotten a lot better over the past few years)


In this guide I am going to show how to set up the command lines tools using Cygwin, I have another (slightly different guide for Ubuntu)


This guide of course assumes you already have an Amazon AWS account.

(Update) Increase Alfresco Share 3.4.d 1000 file folder limit

Posted on Sunday, October 21, 2012



This was done with Alfresco 3.4.d  (This issue seems to be fixed in version 4.0+)

Using Alfresco share 3.4.d I recently hit a limit on how many files can be displayed in a folder, it is 1,000.  You can have 10,000 or more files in the folder but only 1,000 will be displayed. 








This is because of a query setting with alfresco and here is how to fix it.  I found this information at http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=22178 [1]


Alfresco 4 Install on Ubuntu 12.04 and make folder emailable

Posted on Thursday, October 18, 2012



This document shows how to install Alfresco 4.0 on an Ubuntu 12.04 server that has java 7 already installed on its system.

In this example I am running it on an Ubuntu server in the amazon AWS cloud it’s a c1.medium instance.  (for those interested it was started from ami-3d4ff254 )

Before you dive into this make sure the machine running alfresco has

  • port 25 open (for e-mail) 
  • A DNS record to so emails can be routed to that machine. 
Remember to have those set up especially the port 25 I pulled my hair out once for hours wondering why it was not working.


Installing Java 7 on Ubuntu 12.04

Posted on Friday, October 12, 2012










Looks like Oracle has finally pulled the plug on using apt-get to install Java6.  According to this site
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2012-January/001554.html [1] the java package will no longer be available for easy apt-get downloads...

I used to be able to 


Edit /etc/apt/sources.list.


       > sudo pico /etc/apt/sources.list


Add the following at the bottom


deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner


Run this from the command line


       >  sudo apt-get update


      Run this from the command line to install Java


       >  sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk



But that no longer works...  Here are the steps I tool to install Java7 on my Ubuntu server.