The Amazon Linux AMI is a supported and maintained Linux image provided by Amazon Web Services for use on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).
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How to change my EC2 instance listen to new folder
I have a running EC2 instance in Linux (Apache server). I recently cloned another repository to my EC2 instance.
For example :
In var/wwww/html there are two folders
front(already running)
frontend(newly cloned)
I wanted the instance to listen,…

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php-sodium on Amazon Linux 2023
php-sodium is absent on Amazon Linux 2023 and can't be easilly installed. So I'll put the solution here as an answer.
Expected to install php-sodium/libsodium on Amazon Linux 2023, but there is no the simple way, because amazon-linux-extras not…

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Alternative of amazon-linux-extras in Amazon Linux 2023
We have amazon-linux-extras for Amazon Linux 2 but, what is the alternative of amazon-linux-extras in Amazon Linux 2023 and how to install it

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Installing let's encrypt on Amazon Linux2023
I am trying to get SSL certificate with let's encrypt nginx. First, I added epel using the commands $ wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm and $ sudo rpm -ihv --nodeps ./epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm and it…

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Can I install MySQL ODBC Driver 8 on Amazon Linux 2?
I'm running into an issue when connecting to a MySQL database on Amazon Linux 2 using pyodbc and the mysql-connector-odbc driver. As shown below:
pyodbc.OperationalError: ('08004', "[08004] [unixODBC][MySQL][ODBC 5.2(w) Driver]Authentication plugin…

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Unable to get the environment variable using PHP hosted in amazon linux
I set up the environment path in amazon linux vi /etc/environment as ENV_TYPE=DEV. Environment variable are set up in localhost but it not get the environment in web host.
In apache path /var/www/html I create a index.php with below code:

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Can't start docker daemon inside container
I have a docker image based on amazonlinux:2.0.20220912.1 with Amazon Corretto Java SDK 11 installed.
I have also added a docker installation to this image by using this command in the Dockerfile
RUN amazon-linux-extras install docker
I use this…

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Wordpress on a second volume
I have a complex Wordpress multisite that is difficult to migrate to another server. I need to upgrade the underlying OS from AWS Linux to AWS Linux 2 for security reasons. Since upgrading the OS on the EC2 instance is not an option, is it possible…

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connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream) NGINX, Gunicorn when running Flask App
I'm trying to host a flask application on a Public EC2 instance on Amazon-Linux-2 using aws-cdk.
I've configured nginx such for a custom health check endpoint /healthcheck
i have created a python env and installed gunicorn there and ran gunicorn…

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QuestPDF Text is not displaying (.NET Core running on 64bit Amazon Linux)
I have developed an application in .NET Core 5, I am using QuestPDF (2022.2.6). Generated PDF is working fine on my local machine (Windows 11), but when I deploy this application to .NET Core running on 64bit Amazon Linux, it is not working. The…

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How can I not run this command 'sudo amazon-linux-extras install -y lamp-mariadb10.2-php7.2 php7.2'?
I am following this tutorial: https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/hands-on/deploy-wordpress-with-amazon-rds/?refid=dd707452-50b0-4e41-9f2b-d84c7ca273d4 in an attempt to create my own wordpress server on ec2 / rds of AWS.
However, I DO NOT want to…

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How do I install something from the "Fedora Updates" repository on Amazon Linux 2?
I want a container image based on Amazon Linux 2 with loudgain installed. Loudgain apparently exists as a package in the "Fedora Updates" repository. That repository is not included a default Amazon Linux 2 image:
bash-4.2# yum repolist all
Loaded…

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What is the safest way to get a newer version of a repo from yum on Amazon Linux?
I need a newer version of binutils on Amazon Linux to compile a piece of needed software. This is due to a bug in version 2.29 which is the latest available in their repo. What would be the best way to add another repo, and will this mess up future…

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zip the files and folders inside a parent directory without including the parent directory + Amazon Linux
Is there a Linux command to zip the files and folders inside a parent directory without including the parent directory.
From all the solutions that I tried, the parent directory also is getting zipped

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Beanstalk: eb deploy erroring out with Invalid length for parameter EnvironmentName, value: 25, valid range: 4-23
I have a Beanstalk environment which has been running since more than a year now. It's running Python 3.6 running on 64bit Amazon Linux, which is now deprecated and I need to migrate to Amazon Linux 2 separately.
Out of nowhere, I am not able to do…

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