Installation

EC2 Setup

Launch a new instance of the rio-beta - ami-bf88fb8f instance

Select m3.large as the instance type

Choose a security group with the following ports open:

Select an existing or new keypair

Setup your DNS to point to the Public IP address shown in the management console

Login to the server using:

ssh -i <yourkey.pem> ec2-user@<yourdns.com>

Update the OS software:

sudo yum update

Create 2 25GB general purpose SSD disks: 1 to store large raster files and another for the PostGIS database

In the EBS management console, attach both volumes to the newly created EC2 server

From the terminal, run lsblk to view mount points. The output should look like:

NAME  MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
xvdf  202:80   0  25G  0 disk 
xvdg  202:96   0  25G  0 disk 
xvda1 202:1    0   8G  0 disk /

Both 25G drives are the EBS volumes you just created. Make a note of their names (e.g., xvdf)

If the volumes were newly created (and not restored from images), you need to format the drives with the new file system by running:

sudo mkfs -t ext4 /dev/<device name>

Create mount point directories for each volume. The mount point is where the volume is located in the file system tree.

cd /
sudo mkdir data
sudo mkdir spatial-db

Mount each drive to the mount point using:

sudo mount <device name> <mount point>

To mount this volume on every system reboot, add an entry for the device to the /etc/fstab file:

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