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TCAT on Amazon EC2

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Matteo Menapace edited this page Jun 29, 2016 · 1 revision

Sign up to Amazon WS, following this guide

Choose a Ubuntu installation. Pay special attention to Security Groups: Amazon firewalls the HTTP (web-traffic) port by default. You have to explicitly open the HTTP port in the Amazon interface.

On AWS, create a IAM user, following this guide
Create and download an AWS key pair, following this guide
Connect to your AWS EC2 instance with SSH, following this guide

For Ubuntu, the user name is ubuntu. So in Terminal you will enter something like this
```
 ssh -i /path/my-key-pair.pem ubuntu@ec2-123-45-678-9.compute-1.amazonaws.com
```
Go to apps.twitter.com and create a new app, then generate an Access Token and a Token Secret.
Follow the TCAT automated installation guide