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…
How to Safely Update Linux in AWS EC2 Micro Instance – Using Yum
CentOS
CentOS is an Open Source linux operating system, which is a derivative of the paid Enterprise OS, RedHat Linux.
At Silicon Dales, we like CentOS, and often our tutorials are posted with commands which will work best in CentOS (or similar) Linux flavours.
How 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)…
WordPress 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…
Allow 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…
Linux & 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…
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…
Fix MySQL Server Issue: “Another MySQL daemon already running with the same unix socket.”
Just the code you need for responding to this error. The following message can sometime prevent MySQL from (re)starting: Another MySQL daemon already running with…
Installing PHP SOAP – Need soapclient?
The tutorial below explains how to install Soapclient for PHP in a Linux system which is showing that this is not included. This may, for…
Silicon 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…
How to find file creation / modified date using Unix commands in terminal window
If you’re ever using PuTTy or another terminal window to SSH into your server and you want to know “how old is that file” (or,…