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I was using sudo rm -rf to delete some folders, and accidentally deleted the /Users/ec2-user home directory. I had my EC2 and AWS Route 53 running my site. Now, it just disappeared. I have all the files for my website, but don't know how to get it back up and running well. It just says "No Data Received" if I visit my website. Help!
crownusa
Posted 2014-01-28T21:24:25.077
Reputation: 15
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If you have taken an AMI of your instance or an EBS snapshot, you can launch a new instance from it. Otherwise, if you have all your important files somewhere else, you can launch a fresh stock instance and redo the setup you did originally. Then just reassign the Elastic IP of the old instance to the new instance, and terminate the old one.
David Levesque
Posted 2014-01-28T21:24:25.077
Reputation: 521
1This. Make a new server and try not to break this one so carelessly. – Xyon – 2014-01-29T12:56:29.407
8You restore your website from the backup you did. Amazon might be able to help also. – Ramhound – 2014-01-28T21:27:31.323
1Two words: Restore. Backup. I don't know of AWS/EC2 keeps snapshots, if they do, rolling back to the last snapshot would do it. – Ricky Beam – 2014-01-28T21:28:45.800
I have the files for the website (all the html/css/js). So I just place it right in a new
~/folder? – crownusa – 2014-01-28T21:34:44.670First, try creating
/Users/ec2-userand then copying the files back. – terdon – 2014-01-28T21:38:39.7972Follow the same procedures you used to create the site originally – Ramhound – 2014-01-28T21:51:37.397
Well, I can't even ssh/connect to my EC2, because the
– crownusa – 2014-01-28T21:52:14.977/home/<username>/.ssh/authorizedkeysfile was deleted (see this article). I keep getting thePermission denied (publickey)error. Can I reset the EC2 to factory settings somehow? That might help.This is the problem with making backups and not testing them. It's not until an emergency that you find out that you can't actually restore your site from your backups. – David Schwartz – 2014-01-28T23:12:59.447