Tag: wordpress
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Simplifying WordPress farm deployments using symbolic links
I have previously posted on how to create a WordPress (Multisite) farm on a Bitnami server. A big problem when you manage a farm is keeping all the plug-ins up-to date. Until the release of WordPress 3.9 it was not possible to have single copy of a plug-in in a master version and then symbolically…
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Installing Newrelic server monitoring
In a previous post I explained how to install Newrelic server application monitoring for WordPress. I now realise that this is probably putting the cart before the horse in that one should install Newrelic Server monitoring first. This is very easy. The instructions are here and at the bottom of the page it gives advice on…
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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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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…
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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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Accessing Webmin as http://localhost:10000 through an ssh tunnel
If you have an EC2 server it is great to install Webmin on it but it undesirable to expose it through the EC2 firewall. An easier and more secure way to access it is using PuTTY to create a tunnel from a local port to a remote port. When you have done this you can…
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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…
Dr James Bayley 