Lab 1: Finally Finished

I thought this lab assignment was very educational. I thought it was really cool when I got my webserver up and running.

The biggest issue I had, however, was getting my server to connect to the pound server automatically. I could connect if I ran my ec2 script manually. I tried examples others had posted on how to connect on startup, but to no avail. Finally after many hours messing with it and talking with Sam, I learned that calling the python script with: python ~/path/script.py was the problem. I changed it to: /root/path/script.py and it worked. I thought '~' was always root, my bad. Thanks again for your help Sam.

Other than that the lab wasn't too difficult. It was only difficult finding the information on how to configure apache and use mod python with cheetah. Once I figured those out, the lab was relatively easy. In all, I thought it was a good lab to understand EC2, apache, and python.