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I got an old AWS instance created way back 2009 when I was still learning and only way to access AWS resources through the API was through an access id and security access key. Unfortunately during that time there were no IAM yet. Fast forward a year or so this is highly insecure as those… Read More Changing Root Access Key to IAM Users on AWS
At last, finally found time to move my blog on LEMP(Linux, Nginx, MySQL and PHP-FPM) stack and it just one of the many goals I have set for starting overhauling this blog and over the coming days I’ll be optimizing it further and come up with a fresh new design. I’ve been running this blog… Read More How to run on WordPress on a LEMP stack on Amazon EC2
EC2 instances uses SFTP and not FTP. Since you do not have a password. The easiest way to configure the WordPress update is via command line. SSH into your instance and enter the following. sudo chown -R www-data /var/www/wordpress sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/wordpress
On our AWS EC2 instance email delivery stopped working without any notice. Customers started reporting that they are not receiving their emails. Better check your error logs. If you find something like this. PHP Warning: SimpleEmailService::sendEmail(): Sender – RequestExpired: Request timestamp: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 06:39:50 UTC expired. It must be within 300 secs/ of… Read More Troubleshoot AWS SimpleEmailService – Sender – RequestExpired
Just recently Amazon Web Services(AWS) has started offering AWS Certifications for Solutions Architect. I got excited of the thought of having a new certification under my belt so I jumped back to getting myself acquainted back to AWS. One of my first thing I needed to do was to get up to speed with the… Read More Error on EC2 Command Line Interface Tool Mac OS X
This is a followup post from last week when I moved this blog from shared hosting on Bluehost.com to Amazon Web Services EC2 Micro instance. Basically the steps are straightforward for your old host 1. First is backup all your files 2. Backup the database. Next series of steps are for the AWS side, first… Read More Move WordPress site from shared hosting to Amazon EC2
I’m planning on taking on a Linux certification exam soon so I’ll be dropping some quick fix and tricks here for notes. If you are getting an error when trying to SSH to your server with your private key, this means your permissions are too open. Quick fix enter the following the command line. #chmod… Read More Permissions are too open. Warning! Unprotected Private Key File