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Amazon EC2 Webwork public image at latest version? What remaining installation steps needed from docs for other install methods?

Re: Amazon EC2 Webwork public image at latest version? What remaining installation steps needed from docs for other install methods?

by Michael Gage -
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David Gage setup the EC2 facility at WeBWorK::Raleigh in March 2013 (http://michaelgage.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-webwork-raleigh-code-camp-march-7.html) and Anneke Bart created instructions at http://webwork.maa.org/wiki/Amazon_Cloud which have been fleshed out by Hedley Pinsent below and in previous posts.

Another version of creating a server quickly, this on your own desktop machine for development purposes, is described at: https://github.com/openwebwork/WeBWorK_Vagrant.  This was work that David did at WeBWorK::Vancouver in June 2013: http://michaelgage.blogspot.com/2013/07/webworkvancouver-june-27-30-2013.html

Notice that you don't need to stay with the default version 2.5.1. As with any server you can switch to a more recent version such as  2.6 or 2.7 following the directions at  http://webwork.maa.org/wiki/Github.  For the most part you are simply grabbing the newest version of the WeBWork and PG code although on occasion you will need to add a CPAN module or two.  

I hope that someone will find time later this semester to create a newer EC2 instance so that one can boot up the most recent WW server almost immediately.

-- Mike