Guideline to install DHIS2 on AWS

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Hello,

I was looking for a guideline to install DHIS2 on AWS.

Thanks,
Imran

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Hi @imran

For installation instructions, kindly check them out on DHIS2 Documentation on the Implementer’s Guide. you can also check out this discussion for an earlier version Installing DHIS-2 on AWS. I have seen @Lars had a similar support case Installing DHIS2 on Amazon Web Services.

Kindly let me know if this information helps.

Best,
James.

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Dear James,

Thanks for your suggestions. However, couldn’t find any thing really comprehensive to guide one through for the installation process. Installing DHIS2 on Amazon Web Services refers to a link, which end up to a 404 page.

Thanks,
Imran

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Dear @imran,

Our team member @Lars who was in the support will get back to you when he sees this with a more comprehensive guide and support.

Best,
James.

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To set up DHIS 2 on AWS, start by provisioning an EC2 instance with at least 2 GB RAM and at least 2 CPUs. To stay close to the installation guide, Ubuntu can be used as operating system. The EC2 instance represents a virtual machine which conceptually is equal to other VM providers.

From there, please follow the DHIS 2 installation guide which is based on Ubuntu:

Clearly there are other AWS services like S3, Elasticache for Redis, RDS, Elastic load balancing that might be used with DHIS 2 but that is out of scope for our guide.

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Thank you @Lars. @imran - I hope you are good now…

Best,
James.

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Thanks, Dear @jomutsani and @Lars the guideline is helpful. I am still trying to set up as I am not very familiar with Linux. However, the guideline you provided is complete enough.

Imran

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Kindly keep us up to date with your progress and update us on your success too… other new users will want to learn from your journey @imran!

Best,
James.

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Of course, I will keep posting about the progress.

Thanks,
Imran

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Hi @jomutsani,

I am trying to install DHIS2 on AWS Lightsail - Ubuntu server - RAM 512 MB. Looks like whatever I did so far looks good (Please see the attachment: DHIS Setup.docx (947.0 KB) ). Two issues I am experiencing as the following:

  • Getting error: Tomcat started but Status is Dead

  • I was unable to ping IP if I do not allow all the ports

Support will be highly appreciated as we are stuck and we are trying to install for our project.

Thanks,
Imran

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Hi @imran,

Can you check if the Tomcat service is running? and which version of DHIS2 were you installing?

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Hi @jomutsani,

Thanks so much for the quick response. Truly appreciate, we have installed Tomat; however, apparently, it is not running for some reason. The version of DHIS2 we are trying to install is: 2.32 as per the installation guideline: http://dhis-2.blogspot.com/.

Do we really need 2 CPUs and 2GB RAM?

Thanks again,
Imran

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