Below are the minimum requirements for WooCommerce and (by extension) WordPress. Some are taken from WooCommerce, some from WordPress, and also, some, we are adding…
Minimum Requirements for WooCommerce
Linux
Silicon Dales most commonly uses Linux as part of a LAMP setup on a server.
On this page you will find tutorials, case studies and other resources relating to Linux as used for a WordPress setup.
For extra help, get in touch.
How 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…
How to Setup FTP (FTPS (not SFTP)) on an AWS EC2 Instance
Below are the commands required to setup FTP (well, FTPS in fact, and specifically not SFTP, which you can most easily use by adding your…
How to find Apache version via Command Line
A long time ago, we published an item which showed how to discover your Apache version on a Plesk installation. Sometimes, people land in there…
How to: Find out Apache version from Command Line (SSH)
Have you logged into your server or VPS via command line (SSH – this is really the best and only way to do this now…
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…
Apache HTTPD: Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address
This is a post for those sysadmins out there who run into problems running servers with a LAMP setup. This issue will crop up occasionally…
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…
PHP 7.0 Reaches End of Life on 3 December 2018 😱
If you, like us, were thinking Christmas comes round faster and faster each year, then you’ll no doubt think it was only yesterday that the…
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…
How to Get Size of Folder (and all its contents) in Linux / Unix via PuTTy / Terminal
If you ever wanted to know “how big is that directory?” and by this you mean the entire directory, and you have access over SSH,…
How to Use Sky Go (and other Silverlight 5+) Video on Ubuntu (and other) Linux
This tutorial describes how to get SkyGo working on Ubuntu Linux. Other linux distros may work, as may other video services, such as Netflix, NowTV,…
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,…
How to Update Linux on Amazon EC2 with Yum
It’s really quite straightforward to update your Amazon EC2 instance to the latest versions: Login with your secure key via your terminal window; then Type…