Lately I have been playing around a little with Ubuntu. The server version of the OS is very similar to the desktop version. The main difference is that there is no GUI. This can be solved by installing the Ubuntu UI. However, you can do what I did and install Webmin. It is a browser based UI that allows you to do just about everything. This is because I am CLI illiterate.
Once I got CF running I wanted to set it up so that it would auto start with the OS. Since I had Webmin this was very easy. Well, kinda, I had to figure out what the start up command would be. So after digging and then trial and error here are the steps I came up with.
#1 by Christian Ready on 8/22/08 - 11:21 AM
#2 by Dave Ferguson on 8/22/08 - 5:20 PM
#3 by David on 8/26/08 - 8:25 AM
http://awsconsole.riaforge.org/blog/index.cfm/2008...
Adobe was supposed to fix the auto-boot issue in 8.1 but they did NOT, at least not for Ubuntu 7.10 (shouldn't matter that it's running on EC2).
There is a set-up screen asking about auto-boot, but when I select "yes" it still does not work. Maybe it is Ubuntu, maybe it's the multi-server version, but the work-around is very handy.