[Gary]

Hi,

Testing this very promising project. As I RTFM, just created a lighstail VM (1 vCPU / 2 Gb) but the launch script gives a “ss : permission denied” even after adding sudo (logged in as ubuntu).
What do I do wrong ?
Best regards.

[Thomas]

I seem to remember sudo issues with Lightsail because their default sudo user is called ubuntu but I can’t remember what the fix was for ss lol

[Patricia]

maybe you can manually add the sudo user that SlickStack will use from ss-config and then try to run installer again?

[Jessica]

AWS is a nightmare for usability, they never follow industry standards!

[Denise]

Why does SlickStack hate Amazon AWS cloud?

[Ronald]

I know but this was specifically installed in Lightsail, not AWS per se, and it is listed as a good hosting option.

[Patrick]

@OP

You can try to manually create (and modify as desired) your /var/www/ss-config file first, then manually add your sudo user.

Note: You might also need to manually run sudo mkdir -p /var/www beforehand.

After your ss-config exists, and sudo user exists, you can download the installer to your /tmp/ directory and try running it like this:

cd /tmp/

sudo wget -O ss slick.fyi/ss

sudo bash /tmp/ss

[Kevin]

If you’re wondering how to manually create/modify your ss-config file:

sudo wget -O /tmp/ss-config https://mirrors.slickstack.io/bash/ss-config-sample.txt

Then do sudo nano /tmp/ss-config and edit as desired.

Then do sudo cp /tmp/ss-config /var/www/ss-config after ready.

And again, you might need to manually run sudo mkdir -p /var/www before this to ensure the www directory exists properly.

[Victoria]

You can also try rebooting the Lightsail server after you manually create your sudo user and before doing the other steps here.

[Scott]

FYI, Lightsail is no longer recommended by SlickStack. Latest versions of Lightsail have new user/file permissions issues seems.

[Christian]

from here: https://slickstack.io/forum/topic/why-does-slickstack-hate-amazon-aws-cloud#post-11492

Update:

According to recent user reports on our Discord server, AWS Lightsail now has file/user permissions issues with SlickStack out-of-the-box and may require some tinkering to get it working.

Previously SlickStack had recommended only Lightsail out of the various AWS servers, but now even Lightsail is having problems.

[Marilyn]

so tl;dr stay away from Amazon?

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