Category: Bitnami
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Creating a WordPress farm on a Bitnami server
This is a work in progress and may be updated in future. Please feel free to comment. The Bitnami stack for deployment on AWS is beautifully crafted. Ubuntu Apache2 WordPress (single instance) Other PHP applications Apache2 configuration Apache is configured so that there is a default website. /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs with a configuration file /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/httpd.conf /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/httpd.conf Optimisation…
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How to install a SSL certificate on a Bitnami WordPress server
In a previous post I described how to enforce SSL in this post I show how to replace the self-signed certificate with one from a Certificate Authority such as StartSLL. The standard configuration of Bitnami servers is that the Apache configuration is overwritten by an application configuration. The Bitnami server is provided with a self-signed…
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How to enforce SSL on a Bitnami WordPress server
Bitnami servers come with Apache and WordPress SSL enabled with a self signed certificate. I will address replacing this certificate in a later post. As I understand it Bitnami configures the AWS cloud image so that the application configuration overwrites the Apache configuration. This is described in their documentation. Bitnami documentation for Apache The relevant…
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Free SSL Certificates from StartSSL
— update 2017-03-20 StartSSL was bought by a bad boy and has been banned, don’t use them now– Whenever I have to replace a server certificate I curse because I have to pay so much for so little. The whole industry is an conspiracy against the small businessman. In the past I have purchased certificates…
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How to enable the WordPress theme editor in a Bitnami distribution
I use ssh to edit all my files but it is possible that access via WordPress itself might be useful sometimes. For example to give ad-hoc access to another developer. From Bitnami docs on how to edit WordPress files, How to edit the WordPress files? For security reasons, WordPress files are not editable from the…
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How to give two developers access to the same Linux directory
Linux file administration falls short of what I am used to on Windows. In particular only one user or group have have permissions on a file. In Windows you can create as many groups as you like each with different permissions on a resource and then drop users into them. On Linux you can only…
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How to connect as root using WINSCP
In my previous post I noted that I had not succeeded in in connecting to a linux machine as root using WINSCP when using the bitnami virtual machine. My development implementation works, so I have progressed to using the cloud hosted bitnami instance. This comes with public key access rather than password access. This actually…
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How to install WordPress Multisite on Virtual Box
I do all my development on a Windows 7 computer but the natural environment for WordPress execution is Linux. I would like to use my tools on Windows and then see the running code on a Linux box. One way of doing this is to use a virtual appliance. This is what we are going to…
Dr James Bayley 