Configuring Amazon Elastic Beanstalk with PostGIS

Question

Does anyone have any experience setting up Amazon Elastic Beanstalk with PostGIS (so that I can take advantage of Geodjango)?

There are a number of features that th

Answer 1

Open ssh shell of your aws beanstalk. Execute below command step by step. You will get working postgis.

cd /home/ec2-user

sudo yum -y install gcc gcc-c++ make cmake libtool libcurl-devel libxml2-devel rubygems swig fcgi-devel libtiff-devel freetype-devel curl-devel libpng-devel giflib-devel libjpeg-devel cairo-devel freetype-devel readline-devel openssl-devel python27 python27-devel

# PROJ
wget http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-4.8.0.tar.gz
tar -zxvf proj-4.8.0.tar.gz
cd proj-4.8.0
./configure
make
sudo make install
cd ..

# GEOS
wget http://download.osgeo.org/geos/geos-3.4.2.tar.bz2
tar -xvf geos-3.4.2.tar.bz2
cd geos-3.4.2
./configure
make
sudo make install
cd ..

# GDAL
wget http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/1.10.1/gdal-1.10.1.tar.gz
tar -zxvf gdal-1.10.1.tar.gz
cd gdal-1.10.1
./configure
make
sudo make install
cd ..

# PostGIS
wget http://download.osgeo.org/postgis/source/postgis-2.1.0.tar.gz
tar -xvf postgis-2.1.0.tar.gz
cd postgis-2.1.0
./configure
make
sudo make install
cd ..

Then create a symbolic link:

ln -s /usr/local/lib/libgdal.so /usr/lib/libgdal.so.1
/sbin/ldconfig