HelloWorld Facebook Application AMI

This AMI (built from one of the Amazon public AMIs) includes the facebook platform library (PHP), HelloAWSWorld facebook application, and footprints facebook application all preconfigured and ready-to-be-launched. It will help you to quickly get started with building your facebook application that uses Amazon S3 (hosted on Amazon EC2)

Version : 1.0
Original AMI used : ami-25b6534c ec2-public-images/fedora-core4-apache-mysql.manifest.xml

This Public AMI consists of three main things:

1. Facebook Client Libraries
2. HelloWorld Facebook Application that lists the objects in your Amazon S3 bucket
3. Footprints Facebook Application that is shipped with Facebook Client Libraries

Prerequisites:

1. Amazon EC2 Account
2. Facebook Account
3. Some time
4. Common Sense

Important Folder locatons:

1. helloawsworld app is at /var/www/html/helloawsworld/
2. footprints app is at /var/www/html/awsfootprints/

Follow these simple steps to get started with your Facebook application idea:

1. Instantiate this AMI
2. Read the tutorial on facebook to add a new developer application.
   1. Choose a facebook application name.
   2. Use that application name instead of "helloawsworld" text Settings in the Configuration Screenshot.
3. SSH into your instance and modify the /var/www/html/helloawsworld/config.php file to include your AWS and Facebook keys.
   1. rename /var/www/html/helloawsworld dir to your application name.
4. Fire away your app url.