The Problem: I want to run the latest 3.0 version of OpenGeo Suite on a free (or really cheap) micro instance on Amazon Web Services OpenGeo announced the release of version 3 of the OpenGeo Suite Monday (Oct.3). I’ve been using the 3.0-beta1 Linux version since it was announced on July 27. There are some interesting improvements to the Suite, which is one reason I made the jump before the final release came out. It now includes PostgreSQL 9.2 and PostGIS 2.0, both of which I wanted to look into. I had been using previous versions of OpenGeo Suite on…
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Resizing my Ubuntu Server AWS Boot Disk
AKA: Building a Bigger GeoSandbox (Note: This article has been updated to make it clear that expanded EBS volumes will = additional charges from AWS. Something that is not clearly stated in the AWS documentation.) If you’ve been reading my last few blog posts, you know I’ve been experimenting with various Ubuntu server configurations using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to serve web-maps and spatial data. As my procedures have evolved, the micro-instances I started working with have outgrown their usefulness. Lately, I’ve been testing GeoWebCache, and seeing how that works with GeoServer and the rest of the OpenGeo Suite. As…
Serving Maps – in the Cloud – for Free (part 3)
It was not my intention to make this a 3-part blog post series, but here it is anyway. (If you want to catch up, you can read Part 1 and Part 2 first). As I continued to work on, and tweak my new AWS Ubuntu server, I decided I might as well add website serving capabilities to it as well. That would allow me to embed my new web-maps into a customizable web page, allowing a more interactive experience, and a more professional appearance to anyone visiting them. The first step in that direction is to: Install Apache Server This…
Serving Maps – in the Cloud – for Free (part 2)
(Note: This is the second part of a 3 – part blog post about setting up the OpenGeo Suite on a AWS Ubuntu server. Links to the other parts are at the bottom of this post) Starting Fresh with a New AMI At the end of my last post, I had my AWS Ubuntu-micro-server running smoothly, but the OpenGeo GeoExplorer was not very stable. It was crashing often, and for no apparent reason. I followed up with a few suggestions about data directory permissions, and swap-file space, but to no avail (Thank you @spara and @jeffbarr). I had been tweaking…
Serving Maps – in the Cloud – for Free (part 1)
My latest personal project (still in progress) is to get a true cloud-based map server up and running, posting maps from a free-tier Amazon Web Services (AWS) Ubuntu server. This has not been easy. I’ve looked at AWS a number of times over the last year, and a few things have made me shy away from trying it out. Mainly, It’s incredibly hard to decipher all the jargon on the AWS website. And it’s not your everyday jargon. It’s jargon that’s unique to the AWS website. It’s jargon2. Amazon has been sending me multiple emails the last few weeks warning…