Initialize and set up a new Amazon EC2 instance to have Node.js installed and ready to go

Node.js EC2 setup

# Run this in a bash environment in an Amazon Linux instance
sudo yum -y update
sudo yum install gcc-c++ make
sudo yum install openssl-devel
sudo yum install git
mkdir libs
pushd libs
git clone https://github.com/joyent/node.git
git clone https://github.com/npm/npm.git

pushd node
./configure
make
sudo make install
popd

# This makes sure node will be found under sudo
echo "Defaults secure_path = /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin">>/etc/sudoers

pushd npm
./configure
sudo make install
popd

popd

sudo npm install express -g
sudo npm install forever -g