Tag: putty
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How to add a static IP to a Virtualbox on your laptop
I believe that all development should be done on virtual machines because of the ability to backup and restore them as simple files. I use my Microsoft Surface Pro 4 as the host and and have two guests; a Windows 10 development box with IntelliJ and PuTTY on it and a Bitnami WordPress appliance that…
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How to convert from keys from .ppk to .openssh
The nice thing about computer standards are that there are so many to choose from. I use PuTTY on Windows to login to my Bitnami Ubuntu machines on the Amazon Cloud. PuTTY uses the .pkk key format. I develop using Intellij. This can deploy to remote hosts but uses the OpenSSH key format. To convert…
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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 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 