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Amazon Simple Storage Service or Amazon S3 is a storage service with a web API. I use Amazon S3 to store backups of my blog and other sites. I made a simple python script to handle file uploads to S3.

In order to use Amazon S3, first create a bucket using your Amazon AWS account. As the name suggests, bucket is a container. You can create buckets using the AWS management console.

The script we're going to write will take two input parameters

1. Path to file, local
2. Target S3 path

One of my friends had trouble configuring Apache2 on Ubuntu. I suggested my friend these steps to fix the problem. Configuring Virtual host in Apache2 is very straight forward. It is easy to find what you need in Ubuntu documentation. The below link clearly explains how to configure Apache2.

https://help.ubuntu.com/7.04/server/C/httpd.html

These are the least steps required to configure virtual host in Apache2. If you run into problems please refer the online Ubuntu documentation or Apache2 documentation.

To install Apache use the command
"sudo apt-get install apache2"

• Have you used Fedora/Red Hat/CentOS before and looking for equivalent commands in Ubuntu?
• Are you a Fedora/Red Hat/CentOS user looking for configuration files location in Ubuntu?
• Vice-versa?

If you answered yes to any of the above, read on. I am trying to help you start using Ubuntu without much Googling.

This post provides a brief introduction on available Fedora/Red Hat/CentOS equivalent commands in Ubuntu. This will also be handy for Ubuntu users that have delved into the Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS world.