Questions tagged [amazon-lightsail]

Virtual Private Server (VPS) platform from Amazon Web Services

Amazon Lightsail is a simplified and minimalistic Virtual Private Server (VPS) platform, part of the Amazon Web Sevices infrastructure.

NOTE: Since there are a number of OS options available on Lightsail, it will help people answer your question if you indicate what blueprint you are using.

98 questions
0
votes
1 answer

htaccess Redirect not working on React App

I have setup my lightsail instance with a static IP and my React app in the htdocs folder. I am trying to prevent anyone from accessing it via the public url. (Making it so that before you can access it, you need to be SSH'd into the lightsail…
Chris
  • 151
  • 2
  • 8
0
votes
1 answer

htaccess file not redirecting routes on my React App

I am currenlty hosting my React App on an Amazon Lightsail LAMP instance. I have two versions of an htaccess file. One works for me when I host my React App on GoDaddy cPanel webhosting. I found the other online while trying to get the routing…
Chris
  • 151
  • 2
  • 8
0
votes
0 answers

How to communicate between two lightsail instances in a same zone?

I have two instances like instance a [using wordpress] and instance b [using windows server 2016] on Amazon Lightsail.One website is running through instance a. At instance b i have installed Geoserver and added some vector layers. Now i want to…
0
votes
1 answer

How to change the FQDN on a Lightsail instance?

I've spent the last number of hours trying to work out what's causing the error "hostname: Name or service not known" to be produced when I run the command "hostname -f" on the latest version of Debian 9. When I run "hostname" I get the hostname ok…
0
votes
1 answer

Can I use elastic beanstalk if I am a lightsail user?

Can I use elastic beanstalk if I am a light sail user. After creating an instance I can't find an instance in ec2>instance
0
votes
0 answers

On AWS Lightsail I opened all ports but still seems not reachable

I have an aws lightsail instance that I chose to open all tcp ports for public access. See attached below: However, when I tried to nmap remote aws server using my local machine I could not get ports listed except 22, 80. Please see below for full…
0
votes
1 answer

Connecting two AWS Peering Connections

I have an AWS Lightsail instance (deployed in AWS Managed VPC) that I want to connect to my Mongo ATLAS (deployed in Mongo Managed VPC). I was able to connect my AWS Services (Lambda, API Gateway) to ATLAS internally, without going through the…
0
votes
1 answer

nginx static files served on server using curl, but not to browser on remote machine

I'm working my way through my first nginx / gunicorn / flask deployment using a stock Amazon Lightsail Ubuntu server. At this point, I'm ignoring gunicorn and flask, and just trying to get nginx to serve my static files. I am able to get a static…
Larry Lustig
  • 113
  • 6
0
votes
0 answers

LIghtsail Magento instance redirect to domain

I am unable to redirect my Magento Lightsail instance to a domain and not the IP address? How can I achieve this?
0
votes
2 answers

Why linux "top" command shows different CPU utilizations values with only one CPU?

Why does "top" command shows two different values for a Linux server with only just one CPU. I understand that it can differs when there is a multi core processor but in this case I'm using a AWS LightSail $5 instance with only one CPU 512 MB RAM, 1…
Daniel Santos
  • 168
  • 1
  • 9
0
votes
2 answers

Getting postfix to receive email, connection time out on port 25

I'm having a hard time setting up an email server. I decided to go with and E2C instance (specifically, with light-sail) running Ubuntu. On the server, I've put postfix on the server more or less following this guide to the letter. From postfix, I'm…
0
votes
2 answers

AWS Lightsail domain unreachable

I created a NodeJS instance, set the nameservers in the domain host, and added a few records for www and other subdomains. I can only access the instance via public IP, and subdomains, but the main domain is not reachable ("server DNS address could…
0
votes
1 answer

How do I create FTP usernames using username@domain.com (AMI)

I have recently moved to lightsail from Godaddy and have some legacy ftp accounts that I need to be maintain, all the ftp account are email addresses associated with the domain name. I have created a separate instance to cater for FTP. On DNS…
Waqas Tariq
  • 135
  • 1
  • 1
  • 11
0
votes
1 answer

MySQL server crashes intermittently after upgrading to 5.6

I have a new instance (lightsail 2GB/AMI) that I am testing with a single wordpress site. I installed mysql (sudo yum install mysql-server) on it and imported an already existing db into it, it gave me a bunch of errors on import... long story, I…
Waqas Tariq
  • 135
  • 1
  • 1
  • 11
0
votes
1 answer

Can't edit files in Amazon Lightsail

I'm trying to modify a child theme installed on a WordPress site on Amazon Lightsail. I'm using Panic's Transmit to access the server, but whenever I try to perform any write operations (edit, upload, new folder, new file, paste, move, etc.) I get…
Jonathan
  • 101
  • 3