Installing APC on Amazon EC2 Instance
Some time ago, I wrote a short blog post explaining how to go about installing XCache on an Amazon EC2 instance to help with opcode caching. More recently, we’ve begun using APC for similar reasons,...
View ArticleAllow HTTPS on Amazon EC2
If you have recently setup an Amazon EC2 instance and would like to configure access to Port 443 (HTTPS:// traffic) on your new instance, there are a few things you should do. First Step – Allow Port...
View ArticleInstalling APC on Amazon EC2 Instance
Some time ago, I wrote a short blog post explaining how to go about installing XCache on an Amazon EC2 instance to help with opcode caching. More recently, we’ve begun using APC for similar reasons,...
View ArticleAllow HTTPS on Amazon EC2
If you have recently setup an Amazon EC2 instance and would like to configure access to Port 443 (HTTPS:// traffic) on your new instance, there are a few things you should do. First Step – Allow Port...
View ArticleLinux & Apache Server – Set Local Time to London, UK, Europe
A quick and simple command you might need from time-to-time if you’re running apache webservers in one or other linux flavour. We often grab EC2 instances on Amazon, for example, for our clients and,...
View ArticleInstalling PHP SOAP – Need soapclient?
If you need SOAP in your PHP applications, and you have a system which doesn’t currently contain the correct tools, like an AWS EC2 instance you’ve just installed, you could be looking for the simple...
View ArticleHow to Safely Update Linux in AWS EC2 Micro Instance – Using Yum
Often, when logging into via SSH to an Amazon EC2 instance, you are told that there are several updates (usually including security updates) waiting to be updated on your system. The panel on Amazon...
View ArticleWordPress Problem: Image could not be processed. Please go back and try again.
If you have recently installed WordPress, or you have just started tinkering with some image or other (such as the header image in the default WordPress theme) on a new installation, you might have run...
View ArticleFix MySQL Server Issue: “Another MySQL daemon already running with the same...
This message can sometime prevent MySQL from (re)starting: Another MySQL daemon already running with the same unix socket. Sometimes, this message displays when you KNOW there is not another MySQL...
View ArticleHow to Safely Update Linux in AWS EC2 Micro Instance – Using Yum
Often, when logging into via SSH to an Amazon EC2 instance, you are told that there are several updates (usually including security updates) waiting to be updated on your system. The panel on Amazon...
View ArticleWordPress Problem: Image could not be processed. Please go back and try again.
If you have recently installed WordPress, or you have just started tinkering with some image or other (such as the header image in the default WordPress theme) on a new installation, you might have run...
View ArticleFix MySQL Server Issue: “Another MySQL daemon already running with the same...
This message can sometime prevent MySQL from (re)starting: Another MySQL daemon already running with the same unix socket. Sometimes, this message displays when you KNOW there is not another MySQL...
View ArticleHow to find file creation / modified date using Unix commands in terminal window
If you’re ever using PuTTy or another terminal to SSH into your server and you want to know “how old is that file” (or, at least, what date was it ... Read More The post How to find file creation /...
View ArticleSilicon Dales Managed Hosting Servers – Dirty COW Free!
There is a Linux vulnerability known as Dirty COW which surfaced a week or so ago, for which there have been frequent warnings around the Linux community pretty much as ... Read More The post Silicon...
View ArticleHow to: Zip contents of a directory, excluding certain sub-directory
Have you ever wanted to zip an entire directory, but exclude the contents of one or two (or more!) sub-directories, using PuTTy (or another terminal) over SSH. I know I have – this is a great way to...
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