WebPagetest on EC2

[asperkins]

(10-20-2010 08:58 PM)pmeenan Wrote:  I know several users are running instances of the hosted version in EC2 and figured it would be a good idea for everyone to compare notes (and even AMI's, etc). With any luck we could eventually get to a push-button deployment of private monitoring/WebPagetest in the cloud.

I've been running my WPT instance plus WPT Monitor for a couple months now on EC2. Originally I set it up on a fedora AMI, but have recently fired one up on CentOS as a micro instance. The CentOS micro instance seems to perform very well.

Here are the details of what I did. I believe most of these are required for the Monitor. I think WPT is less demanding.

I use RightScale to manage my EC2 resources.

I also have win2003 wpt agents in all EC2 regions.

If you try the following please provide feedback and I'll tweak where needed.

Once we have this pinned down I will be able to create and share a pre configured AMI.

Micro instance
AMI: ami-2342a94a - RightImage_CentOS_5.4_i386_v5.5.9_EBS

yum install httpd
yum install php
yum install php-pear
yum install php-devel
yum install gcc
yum install zlib-devel
yum install curl-devel
pecl install pecl_http
yum install php-gd
yum install php-pdo
yum install subversion
echo "extension=http.so" > /etc/php.d/http.ini

cd
mkdir src
cd src
svn co http://code.webpagetest.org/svn/webpagetest/ webpagetest
svn co http://code.webpagetest.org/svn/wptmonitor/trunk/ wptmonitor

cp -R webpagetest/. /var/www/html/.
cp -R wptmonitor /var/www/html

// Edit settings
vi /var/www/html/settings/locations.ini
...

/etc/init.d/httpd start