Running CI on Amazon Servers - Trouble with htaccess

[eluser]Elliot Haughin[/eluser]
Hey... I've been working on EC2 a great deal recently.
I've tended not to use any of the 'pre-built' AMI's out there which claim to be LAMP setups for just these reasons. Instead, try the basic Ubuntu server installs, then build the AMI you want.

Login to the server. Install Apache2, php5, all the apache modules you want, then bundle that distro up as your own AMI. Then you're good to deploy that exact setup to a new instance as soon as you want to scale.

Elliot