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
This is useful if you don’t have access to phpmyadmin on your server but have access to ssh and ftp. Or you have a huge sql dump like 10MB or higher that you cannot import directly on phpmyadmin. In my case the phpmyadmin directory was password protected by Apache and I don’t have the right… Read More Import sql dump using the MySQL client