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Hi We successfully scaled our awslightsail for windows to a higher plan. We followed all necessary snapshot steps

Now in the new instance created from the snapshot, we saw that all the files for our domain are as expected.

But, suddenly after unistallation and installation of plesk, our domain files just disappeared. We can still see the folders in the quick access but we can't open as it is unavailable

Now, we created an instance from the backup to at least get the folders from there. But we can't log in to that instance as we were not getting the default password for the new instance created from the backup. Please note that we did not change the password from the default for that instance.

Please how can we get these folders?

Any help?

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Compute
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WindowsAmazon Lightsail
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asked 3 years ago317 views

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Hello

I believe it is possible that when uninstalling Plesk , it removed the domain files however you can retrieve the files from your snapshot.

If you are unable to retrieve the Password from Lightsail console , Then you can follow the steps below to create an instance from backup snapshot but

create a temp account and login with temp account. Follow the steps below

You can create a temp account , gain access to the instance and reset the administrator local account

  1. Sign in to the LightSail console.
  2. Choose the cloned(snapshot) of the instance
  3. Choose the actions menu icon (⋮) next to the snapshot from which you want to create a new instance, and choose Create new instance.
  4. On the Create an instance from a snapshot page, you have a few optional settings to decide on at the top. For example, you can change the Availability Zone, add a launch script, or change the way you connect to your instance. 5. On the Create an instance page, 6. Scroll down and choose Add launch script

Type the following:

<Powershell>

Invoke-WebRequest https://www.tightvnc.com/download/2.8.81/tightvnc-2.8.81-gpl-setup-64bit.msi -OutFile C:\TightVNC64.msi Start-Process -FilePath "C:\TightVNC64.msi" -ArgumentList ("/q SET_PASSWORD=1 VALUE_OF_PASSWORD=LightsailPW SERVER_ADD_FIREWALL_EXCEPTION=1") -Wait -PassThru net user <newusername> <newpassword> /add /expires:never net localgroup administrators <newusername> /add

</powershell>

<persist>true</persist>

  • Add Persist in case instance requires a second reboot to apply changes

  • Please note the above command install tight VNC and creates a temp account with credentials : username:<newusername> , PW:<newpassword>

  • Provide your own unique username and password

  • Add port 5800 and 5900 to all Ips using the following steps

Choose the Networking tab on your instance's management page. The Networking tab displays your instance's public and private IP addresses, and the configured IPv4 or IPv6 firewalls for your instance. To add an IPv4 firewall rule, scroll down to the IPv4 Firewall section of the page, and choose Add rule.

  1. Login on to the instance, Use the RDP client, Type the public IP address of the instance and click connect

  2. Use the following method to login :

username : .\ <newusername> Password: <newpassword>

If you don’t have access to RDP client, install tight VNC on your source machine, click tight VNC viewer, enter the public IP of the LightSail instance

Click connect, enter the password: LightsailPW

Click ctrl+Alt+Del on the tight VNC viewer

You will be presented with <newusername> account, enter your password that you created during userdata process

You should be able to now Login on Windows and reset your administrator Local account

Cleanup-process

Once you have gained access to your instance via Administrator account, you can cleanup the Temporary account by Following below steps

Open Run or Command Prompt.

Type SystemPropertiesAdvanced and press ENTER.

Navigate to User profiles tab

Select the Temp profile click on delete

Navigate to this location below registry

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

Confirm that the Temp profile registry does not exist, if it does delete it.

You can also uninstall Tight VNC by Navigating to Programs and features

Select Tight VNC and Click uninstall Tab

Ensure that the uninstall processes completes successfully

Choose the Networking tab on your instance's management page.

The Networking tab displays your instance's public and private IP addresses, and the configured IPv4 or IPv6 firewalls for your instance.

Remove the port 5800 and 5900 that was previously configured

Thank you!

Resources

A. https://lightsail.aws.amazon.com/ls/docs/en_us/articles/lightsail-how-to-create-instance-from-snapshot

B. https://lightsail.aws.amazon.com/ls/docs/en_us/articles/lightsail-how-to-configure-server-additional-data-shell-script

C. https://lightsail.aws.amazon.com/ls/docs/en_us/articles/amazon-lightsail-editing-firewall-rules

D. https://lightsail.aws.amazon.com/ls/docs/en_us/articles/amazon-lightsail-connecting-to-windows-instance-using-rdc

F. Download the TightVNC MSI: https://tightvnc.com/download.php

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answered 2 years ago

  • Flame
    2 years ago

    Thank you very much.

    Though this was long resolved 7 months ago, The steps you shared might be helpful to anyone else with the issue.

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