I finally managed to create a baseline image on EC2. I needed to have Apache be able to serve various sites as well as Subversion. That took a while due to my lack of understanding the Apache config files. Basically, when a site is running in Virtual mode meaning more than one site on a single IP address, all the baseline configurations are ignored for DocumentRoot and ServerName. That took a while to work through.
Next step will be to have the image connect to S3 on boot up and pull down a set of scripts that will perform various tasks such as setting the domain name properly since we don't get a static IP. We'll also need to mod the cron files to make sure all the data is backed up on a regular schedule. It will be set up in such a way that based on the URL passed in when the instance is started, it can perform various tasks. This way we can use the same mechanisms across multiple instances for different needs.
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