A long time ago, I had occassion to WGET files from WeTransfer to a server after being sent a large file from a client, and…
How to wget files from Google Drive
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.
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Minimum Requirements for WooCommerce
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…
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)…
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…
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…