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Robert Dempsey has written a nice article about ‘Using Amazon S3, EC2, SQS, Lucene, and Ruby for Web Spidering‘, which is very interesting because it describes how to interact with Apache Lucene using Ruby.

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) is a secure and seamless bridge between a company’s existing IT infrastructure and the AWS cloud. Amazon VPC enables enterprises to connect their existing infrastructure to a set of isolated AWS compute resources via a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection, and to extend their existing management capabilities such as security services, firewalls, and intrusion detection systems to include their AWS resources. Amazon VPC integrates today with Amazon EC2, and will integrate with other AWS services in the future. As with all Amazon Web Services, there are no long-term contracts, minimum spend or up-front investments required. With Amazon VPC, you pay only for the resources you use.

I got the following error when trying to create a ssl-certificate on Ubuntu 8.04:

apache2-ssl-certificate: command not found

The problem was that there is a new command to create such a certificate:

sudo apt-get install ssl-cert
sudo mkdir /etc/apache2/ssl
sudo /usr/sbin/make-ssl-cert /usr/share/ssl-cert/ssleay.cnf /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.pem

I got the following error:

error: Unexpected HTML page found at http://trac-hacks.org/svn/accountmanagerplugin/0.10

To fix it, you need to update setuptools via

sudo easy_install -U setuptools