Issues with symbolic link

[dtan]

Thanks for this write, i got it through to the step of creating a symbolic link here:

ubuntu$ sudo ln -s /var/myapp/init.d/myapp-httpd /etc/init.d/

my first run through i got this error: update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/myapp-httpd: file does not exist

so i figured i should make the directory structure in the ln command so:

ubuntu$ sudo mkdir /var/myapp/init.d/myapp-httpd

then again: ubuntu$ sudo ln -s /var/myapp/init.d/myapp-httpd /etc/init.d/ ln: creating symbolic link `/etc/init.d/myapp-httpd': File exists

but then when i run the update-rc.d command i get this:

ubuntu$ sudo update-rc.d myapp-httpd defaults update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/myapp-httpd: file does not exist

is there a step i'm missing? should I not be creating the init.d/myapp-httpd folder?

[dtan]

whoops...i feel like an idiot. i made a clone of this repo only on my local, and not on my ec2. so basically i would copy these files into my own repository and use them as if they were "originally" apart of the repository and not as some submodule?