Connect two Amazon EC2 using ssh

1.Make sure you have the rightscript Managessh private key ssh installed.
2. Make sure both the instance install same ssh key.
3. It works like a cream

Amazon HAPROXY haproxy[12490]: proxy test has no server available!

This happens when haproxy is trying to find a status file on the server mentioned in rightscale_lb.cfg
If there is no file it does not recognize the server and errors out
haproxy proxy test has no server available!




server srv3.0  ip-xx-xx-xx-xxx.ec2.internal:80 cookie srv03.0 check inter 2000 rise 2 fall 3


Fix
comment out the contents from cookie something like this and restart the server service haproxy restart
server srv3.0  ip-xx-xx-xx-xx.ec2.internal:80 
#cookie srv03.0 check inter 2000 rise 2 fall 3

Joomla 1.6 & Joomla 1.5 Remove index.php from the URL

This works!!!! If not mail me harshal82@gmail.com

Joomla 1.6 .
My Joomla is installed /var/www/joomla


1. Go to Site->Global Configuration and enable Search Firendly URL and use URL rewriting. Save.

2. Go to /var/www/joomla (myroot)  and rename htaccess.txt to .htaccess.
3. Enable apache mod rewrite  from terminal sudo a2enmod rewrite
4. Open nano .htaccess under /var/www/joomla

and below should be the setting

# RewriteBase /

## Begin - Joomla! core SEF Section.
#
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
#
# If the requested path and file is not /index.php and the request
# has not already been internally rewritten to the index.php script
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.php
# and the request is for something within the component folder,
# or for the site root, or for an extensionless URL, or the
# requested URL ends with one of the listed extensions
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /component/|(/[^.]*|\.(php|html?|feed|pdf|vcf|raw))$ [NC]
# and the requested path and file doesn't directly match a physical file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
# and the requested path and file doesn't directly match a physical folder
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# internally rewrite the request to the index.php script
RewriteRule .* /joomla/index.php/$1 [L]
#
## End - Joomla! core SEF Section.


The line in red redirects the page to relavent page without changing the url.

http://yoursite/joomla/test should deliver the page.