This guide outlines the steps that you must follow in order to spin up instances pre-loaded Fantastico F3 on AWS and GCP. We will expand this guide to cover other major cloud service providers in due course.

If you need a more flexible method or a customizable script, please have a look at our open-sourced Ansible playbook.

AWS

Spin-up an instance using the CLI method

$ aws ec2 run-instances                                \
    --count 1                                          \
    --image-id ami-c97101a6                            \
    --instance-type t2.micro                           \
    --key-name {{key-name}}                            \
    --placement AvailabilityZone={{availability-zone}} \
    --profile {{profile}}                              \
    --region {{region}}                                \
    --security-groups {{security-groups}}

Spin-up an instance using the GUI method

• Go to EC2 Management Console -> Instances -> Instances
• Click Launch Instance
• Search ami-c97101a6
• Click Select
• Choose an Instance Type
• Click Next: Configure Instance Details
• Configure Instance Details
• Click Next: Add Storage
• Add Storage
• Click Next: Add Tags
• Add Tags
• Click Next: Configure Security Group
• Configure Security Group
  • (see Notes below)
• Click Review and Launch
• Click Launch
• Select an existing key pair or create a new key pair
• Click Launch Instances

Post-install Configuration

• sudo vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
  • Replace all occurrences of 0.0.0.0 with the public IP address of the newly created instance
• sudo vim /var/netenberg/fantastico_f3/sources/options/users.txt
  • Replace all occurrences of 0.0.0.0 with the public IP address of the newly created instance
• sudo service apache2 restart
• Add a new crontab entry
  • 0 * * * * cd /var/netenberg/fantastico_f3/sources && /usr/bin/php index.php crontab
• Open the following URLs in your browser
  • http://{{public IP address of the newly created instance}}:8001: The administrators panel
    • Username: root
    • Password: root
      • Reference: /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf.administrators
  • http://{{public IP address of the newly created instance}}:8002: The visitors panel
    • Username: ubuntu
    • Password: ubuntu
      • Reference: /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf.visitors

GCP

Spin-up an instance using the CLI method

$ gcloud compute instances create {{name}} \
    --image fantastico-f3                  \
    --image-project fantastico-f3          \
    --tags http-server,https-server        \
    --zone {{zone}}

Spin-up an instance using the GUI method

• Go to Google Cloud Platform -> Compute -> Compute Engine -> Images
• Search fantastico-f3
• Click fantastico-f3
• Click Create Instance
• Populate the form shown on the screen
  • Check Allow HTTP traffic
  • Check Allow HTTPS traffic

Post-install Configuration

• sudo vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
  • Replace all occurrences of 0.0.0.0 with the public IP address of the newly created instance
• sudo vim /var/netenberg/fantastico_f3/sources/options/users.txt
  • Replace all occurrences of 0.0.0.0 with the public IP address of the newly created instance
• sudo service apache2 restart
• Add a new crontab entry
  • 0 * * * * cd /var/netenberg/fantastico_f3/sources && /usr/bin/php index.php crontab
• Open the following URLs in your browser
  • http://{{public IP address of the newly created instance}}:8001: The administrators panel
    • Username: root
    • Password: root
      • Reference: /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf.administrators
  • http://{{public IP address of the newly created instance}}:8002: The visitors panel
    • Username: ubuntu
    • Password: ubuntu
      • Reference: /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf.visitors

Notes

The following ports need to be open at all times:

• 22 (optional)
  • For SSH
• 80 (mandatory)
  • For HTTP
• 443 (optional)
  • For HTTPS
• 8001 (mandatory)
  • For Fantastico F3 Administrators Panel
• 8002 (mandatory)
  • For Fantastico F3 Visitors Panel
• 11371 (optional)
  • For http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/