Day 12: Gap-start next week

So week 3 begins today.  Saturday.  Thanks to Kris.  Who made me do it, and then proceeded to cancel on me AFTER I'd already started.

Anyways, here are the goals for the week:

1. Complete implementation of Salient web theme.  This is the primary objective.
2. Begin creating my website's content (tweaking the theme, getting the video and opt-in on there, etc.)
3. See if I can, and if possible, begin recovery and transfer of all worthwhile content from HostGator.

So I worked 8 hours (excluding lunch) at LEAF today, putting me around 70 hours for the week.  And I am noticing I am quite irratible.  For instance, I woke Chris up when I got home for leaving the pizza box wide open, spread across the kitchen table.

Anyways, to get on point here, I think today starts with me watching that video from day 10's post.  So I'm gonna go do that now.

AWS Training

So pretty straight forward stuff.  Not to say I have it working yet... I don't.....

The AWS console basically has everything.

To make a wordpress site with necessary databases and software all setup for you, all you need to do is goto their "cloud formation" tool and "create a stack".  I suppose this means you're creating a whole stack of tools on it's own cloud server.  Pretty fuckin' cool.

When I tried to do this, it failed.  My error was either exactly the same or very similar to this person I found online (not linking since they are doing things a bit different from me, creating a bitnami cloud whereas I just want a normal wordpress cloud.):

"The stack creation failed though and when looking in the Events tab for the stack I see the status CREATE_FAILED with the reason The key pair 'default' does not exist."

The issue seems to be that I don't have this "key" setup.  It seems for it to create a database and have it be secure and what not, I need a key.

It's been over an hour so we'll pick up where we left off and try to learn about "key pairs" when we return.

Bryan's in town.  :)