Install WordPress on an Amazon AWS EC2 Linux instance with persistence to...
I figured that it was finally time for me to roll up my sleeves and get my hands dirty with WordPress running on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 Linux Micro instance. I know you can use a preinstalled...
View ArticlesFTP using FileZilla into an Amazon EC2 instance
Here is how to SFTP into your AWS EC2 instance using FileZilla (this was done on a Mac). Open Site Manager Add site Host: Ec2 elastic IP Port: 22 (will sort by default when you select next option)...
View ArticleAmazon EC2 Apache Setup Permissions for WordPress
I have been doing my best to figure out the Amazon EC2 Apache setup of permissions to enable WordPress to be able to manage all of the files on my Amazon EC2 instance without WordPress asking for FTP...
View ArticleWordPress Edit Image Functionality Not Working on Amazon EC2
If you would like the ability to do advanced image editing in WordPress when running on Amazon EC2 Linux you will need to make sure that you have installed the PHP GD libraries or none of the image...
View ArticleBackup WordPress to Dropbox on Amazon EC2 Centos Instance
I have been running multisite WordPress on my Amazon EC2 instance for almost a year and now that I have four sites running concurrently it is time to sort out a proper backup routine. Having had a look...
View ArticleWordPress Multisite Change Domain Name of Subsite using SQL
I have been working on migrating a website I did for a friend a while ago from an old ASP.NET application I built to my WordPress Amazon EC2 Instance over the last few weekends as the old server we...
View ArticleVrsus: “The future of real time voting”– DMGT Hackathon 2013
About six months ago I was sitting in a CTO meeting across DMGT and they were trying to come up with ways that we could improve collaboration across the group. After a few suggestions around wiki...
View ArticleHow to setup an AWS EC2 instance to reduce WordPress hacker attacks
WordPress hacker attacks have been on the rise this year and although I haven’t been hacked (touch wood) they have managed to overload my site on a number of occasions. I have been on a quest to stop...
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