# Running Virtualmin on Amazon EC2 using EBS

**URL:** <https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/running-virtualmin-on-amazon-ec2-using-ebs/35956>\
**Category:** Help! (Home for newbies)\
**Created:** [March 11, 2010, 5:27pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/running-virtualmin-on-amazon-ec2-using-ebs/35956 "2010-03-11T17:27:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![kristiqn](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/a698b9/32.png) [@kristiqn](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/kristiqn)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 5:27pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/running-virtualmin-on-amazon-ec2-using-ebs/35956/1 "2010-03-11T17:27:33Z")

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Hello.  
First of all thank you for the great products that you’ve made.  
I want to ask a few question about using Virtialmin on Amazon EC2 and also for “how it works”.

1. Understanding the Virtualmin/Cloudmin and usermin.  
I read the documentation, but i’m not 100% sure for these:  
I have to user virtualmin to create a virtual servers. Than i have to use cloudmin to manage them, and usermin to manage the local domains/websites running on one virtual server?

2. Setting up a virtualmin on Amazon EC2.  
I follow the instructions provided:  
[http://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/aws/virtualmin\_gpl\_ami](http://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/aws/virtualmin_gpl_ami)  
and the virtual machine is running. But when i terminate the machine, all updates that i’ve made are gone. So i have to “save” tha AMI on EBS, but i can’t do that, because the button “Create image (EBS AMI)” is not clickable under the instances tab into AWS Managment.  
a.) is it possible to make a EBS AMI of Virtualmin GPL?  
b.) if it’s not i have to use Virtualmin Pro?

3. Domain names understanding:  
I’ve already registred domain name. But i don’t know how to setup a DNS server, becouse i have to put the dns servers, into alphabetic format into the panel of registrar.  
So, i can’t place there the static IP(that i’ve already assigned to the instance).

After i use other dns servers, and make a MX record points to my elastic ip, the web page is not showing. (i’ve already setup a virtual server with that domain and wait 72h for dns refresh).

I will be very pleased if you answer to my questions.

Thanks in advice.  
Best regards,  
Kristiyan Ivanchevski

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**Author:** ![kristiqn](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/a698b9/32.png) [@kristiqn](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/kristiqn)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 8:09pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/running-virtualmin-on-amazon-ec2-using-ebs/35956/2 "2010-03-11T20:09:35Z")

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1. I’ve pointed my glue ip address for the domain to the ip addres that i’ve already allocated to the Instance.  
[http://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/cloudmin/vm/ec2-static](http://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/cloudmin/vm/ec2-static)

But now when i try to open domain.tld i’ve seening the apache 2 test page default page ;-(

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**Author:** ![system](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/uploads/default/original/2X/c/cd96d761e326db4b2bef94886a639109bd7a8e76.svg) [@system](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 5:32am UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/running-virtualmin-on-amazon-ec2-using-ebs/35956/3 "2020-04-30T05:32:34Z")

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Closed on April 30, 2020, 5:32am UTC