Setup phantomjs on Amazon EC2 instance

Phantomjs is a headless webkit browser with javascript API. There are many practical uses for this library but it can be only applied when it is hosted on a server.We have to build the phantomjs application on the server side in order to use it. Talking about the server we need to use a server for which you have the administrative access to its shell.Not many web hosting providers have this option because mostly those servers will have the jailed access to the server shell.I tried many free alternatives but Amazon EC2 is the best choice if you need a free server. We have seen the steps for launching an Amazon Instance but now we go through the steps involved in setting up the phantomjs … Continue reading Setup phantomjs on Amazon EC2 instance