Category: Technologies to build applications
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Installing Newrelic application monitoring on Bitnami Servers
W3 Total Cache recommends Newrelic for WordPress application monitoring. Newrelic provides detailed server and application monitoring. The PHP agent tracks which pages take a long time to render and which queries take a long time to run. Install Newrelic I installed the Newrelic agent and daemon using apt get as instructed on their website. (Bitnami…
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Managing MySQL on Bitnami AWS servers
There are two clients that can be used to manage the MySQL server on Bitnami AWS servers. phpMyAdmin This is a php application web application that has been pre-installed by Bitnami MySQL Workbench. A rich client that runs on your desktop and connects over a socket The approach is both cases is similar you need…
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How to give an IAM user access to an S3 bucket
My backup strategy for my Bitnami WordPress Multisite has been to enable hourly snapshots in the Bitnami EC2 console. Now that I have created a WordPress Multisite farm on my server this is no longer sufficient. The reason is that I need the ability to restore (and hence backup) individual websites and the server now hosts many websites.…
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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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Understanding WordPress multisite users
— this article was updated on 4 April 2014 after a fix was identified– I have spent the whole day trying to understand WordPress users in a multisite environment. I’m not sure if it is very buggy, or I am thick or a bit of both. A multisite instance, henceforth called the “network” has its…
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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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A great post about tagging WordPress
Tom Ewer says, in a nutshell, if categories are the table of contents for your blog, tags represent the index. The Right Way to Use Categories and Tags in WordPress to Boost SEO This is an excellent article that is well worth reading.
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A new theme for this WordPress blog
I am learning WordPress development and configuration. As part of this I have updated the theme on this blog to the very elegant Chateaux theme which has larger fonts and more white space than the TwentyTen theme I was using before. Another improvement is I have added all my posts to the correct category so…
Dr James Bayley 