AWS: Bringing up a new CHORDS Portal

Deprecated

This process is now covered more accurately at the CHORDS Portal User Site.

• Choose the CloudFormation service from the AWS services page.
• Mash Create Stack to start the CloudFormation wizard.
• Configure:
  1. Select Template page:
  • Give the stack a name.
  • Paste the following link into "Specify an S3 template URL": https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/chords-template/chords.template
  2. Specify Parameters page:
  • Select an EC2 KeyPair for KeyName. This will allow you to ssh into the instance, if ever needed.
  3. Options page:
  • Skip.
  4. Review page:
  • Verify that everything looks good.
  • Mash the Create button.

After the creation has started, you will be taken to the stack summary page. Select the stack, and go to the Events tab to watch the progress of the stack creation. It usually takes about 4 minutes to complete, but it can take much longer (even 30 minutes), depending upon AWS loads.

Once the stack is running, the Outputs tab will provide a URL for the new CHORDS Portal. Click on the link to access the Portal.

If the provisioning fails, the instance will be stopped, and you won't know why. You can redo the process, and disable the rollback, so that the instance is left running. To do this, when on the Options page, open the Advanced section, and change "Rollback on Failure" to No. This will keep the instance running when the provisioning fails, so that you can ssh in and diagnose the problem.