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Updating Let’s Encrypt on Amazon EC2 – Resolve “zope.interface… No module named interface”
Continue reading: Updating Let’s Encrypt on Amazon EC2 – Resolve “zope.interface… No module named interface”On AWS EC2 instances, sometimes we run into an issue or two, in particular, in dealing with Let’s Encrypt certification. To be frank, auto-renew has been very difficult, but it… -
Adding a User to AWS with CloudFront permissions
Continue reading: Adding a User to AWS with CloudFront permissionsIf you want to allow someone else (like a contractor, or Silicon Dales) to access your AWS account to add CloudFront to act as a CDN for your WordPress website…
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AWS AMI Let’s Encrypt Troubleshooting & Fixing “No module named interface”
Continue reading: AWS AMI Let’s Encrypt Troubleshooting & Fixing “No module named interface”This is a pretty technical post, about how to troubleshoot and fix a not-quite-renewing correctly lets encrypt certificate on AWS instances! Let’s Encrypt renewals patchy on EC2 If you’ve tried… -
How to Setup FTP (FTPS (not SFTP)) on an AWS EC2 Instance
Continue reading: How to Setup FTP (FTPS (not SFTP)) on an AWS EC2 InstanceBelow are the commands required to setup FTP (well, FTPS in fact, and specifically not SFTP, which you can most easily use by adding your security certificate to your FTP… -
AWS EC2 Instance Won’t Stop
Continue reading: AWS EC2 Instance Won’t StopIf you use a lot – or even just one – EC2 instance on Amazon Web Services (AWS), from time-to-time, you might find that an instance becomes unresponsive, you can’t… -
WordPress Problem: Image could not be processed. Please go back and try again.
Continue reading: 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 WordPress theme) on a new… -
What To Do If You Get “System Error 1” During AWS Phone Verification
Continue reading: What To Do If You Get “System Error 1” During AWS Phone VerificationHere’s a little tip for someone who encountered a strange error during AWS telephone verification… Successfully get your account setup pin after receiving an error message. Today, during a routine… -
Tuning WordPress for Faster PageSpeed: Use Httpd.conf Instead of .htaccess for Permalinks
Continue reading: Tuning WordPress for Faster PageSpeed: Use Httpd.conf Instead of .htaccess for PermalinksLooking to squeeze a little more speed out of your WordPress installation? Trying to drive an AWS micro instance beyond the realms of sensibility out of a spirit of good… -
Moving / Copying an Amazon EC2 Instance from One Availability Zone (Region) to Another
Continue reading: Moving / Copying an Amazon EC2 Instance from One Availability Zone (Region) to AnotherEver wanted to move an Amazon EC2 instance from one Availability Zone (AZ aka Region) to another? Maybe you want to quickly replicate your entire server for delivery to users… -
How to Safely Update Linux in AWS EC2 Micro Instance – Using Yum
Continue reading: How to Safely Update Linux in AWS EC2 Micro Instance – Using YumOften, when logging into via SSH to an Amazon EC2 instance, you are told that there are several updates (usually including security updates) waiting to be updated on your system…. -
How to Restart MySQL After Editing innodb Log Size
Continue reading: How to Restart MySQL After Editing innodb Log SizeSometimes, either because we’ve got a puny amount of RAM available, or because we’ve recently boosted available RAM, we want to allow MySQL a different amount of memory for it’s… -
How to Setup MySQL’s my.cnf for Micro AWS EC2 Instance
Continue reading: How to Setup MySQL’s my.cnf for Micro AWS EC2 InstanceIf you’re using a micro AWS EC2 instance to host a website which uses a database running on MySQL (yes, this is possible using WordPress on a free usage tier!),… -
Installing APC on Amazon EC2 Instance
Continue reading: Installing APC on Amazon EC2 InstanceSome time ago, I wrote a short blog post explaining how to go about installing XCache on an Amazon EC2 instance to help with opcode caching. More recently, we’ve begun… -
Installing the GD Library
Continue reading: Installing the GD LibraryBecause I just posted this description in the post I wrote on how to make WordPress Auto-Thumbnails work, I thought I would also post those instructions straight up as a…
