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jserrano1-Visitor
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July 21, 2016
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Thingworx in a EC2 instance?

  • July 21, 2016
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Anyone with a tutorial on how to install Thingworx platform in a EC2 instance?

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PaiChung22-Sapphire I
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July 21, 2016

Installation instructions cover how to install in a Ubuntu/Linux enviroment. Also I did see some posts in the community on this.

https://support.ptc.com/view?im_dbkey=170230

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    ptc-50829061-Visitor
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    July 22, 2016

    Josue, did you've managed to follow the installation guide ? Can you share additional information about your EC2 instance (OS version, ThingWorx version) ?

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      jserrano1-VisitorAuthor
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      July 25, 2016

      Horia, I'm having troubles accessing to my EC2 instance. As soon as I get to solve it, I will try the instalation guide.

      Thanks for the coments.

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      ibanham1-Visitor
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      July 26, 2016

      Hi

      Assuming you've got a red hat linux ec2 instance, follow the instructions in the install guide (7.x). The Neo instance is the easiest to do and is a good learning experience. There's a couple of utilities you'll probably have to install that aren't part of the default AWS image, but apart from that it's pretty straightforward.

      Installing the postgres version is slightly more work as you'll need quite a few utilities to get x-windows running to be able to run the configuration tool. There's some slight differences between the instructions in the HA guide and the standard install guide. IIRC there's some extra steps in the HA guide that helped...

      Regards

      Ian

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        jserrano1-VisitorAuthor
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        July 26, 2016

        Actually that is the exact instance Im working with. As soon as I get to install my TWX instance, I'll let you know guys how its been.

        Thank you for the support.

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        StefanBode12-Amethyst
        12-Amethyst
        August 11, 2016

        Here my scripts from installing in on a linux micro install at AWS. Sorry for the formatting. Just copy&paste

        sudo yum install tomcat8-webapps tomcat8-docs-webapp tomcat8-admin-webapps

        sudo nano /etc/tomcat8/tomcat-users.xml

        <role rolename="manager-gui"/>

        <user username="thingworx" password="141317052016" roles="manager-gui"/>

        /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
        /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 8080 -j ACCEPT
        /sbin/iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8080

        Pasted from <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12464926/linux-in-ec2amazon-cannot-use-port-80-for-tomcat>

        sudo yum install java-1.8.0

        /usr/sbin/alternatives --config java

        First, get your iptables rules set up the way you like them. Once you’ve verified that everything works, save the rules:

        iptables-save > /etc/firewall.conf

        Next, open up /etc/network/if-up.d/iptables in your favorite text editor and add the following:

        #!/bin/sh
        iptables-restore         < /etc/firewall.conf

        Once you save it, make it executable:

        chmod +x /etc/network/if-up.d/iptables

        Now, the rules will be restored each time your networking scripts start (or restart). If you need to save changes to your rules in the future, you can manually edit /etc/firewall.conf or you can adjust your rules live and run:

        iptables-save > /etc/firewall.conf

        Thanks to Ant for this handy tip.

        Pasted from <https://major.io/2009/11/16/automatically-loading-iptables-on-debianubuntu/>

        sudo mkdir /ThingworxStorage

        sudo mkdir /ThingworxBackupStorage

        sudo chown tomcat /ThingworxStorage  /ThingworxBackupStorage

        sudo chgrp tomcat /ThingworxStorage  /ThingworxBackupStorage

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