Category Archives: Server Configuration

Amazon Linux 2, Apache 2.4, PHP 7.3

In this guide, I will explain the steps necessary to create an Amazon Linux 2 server with: Apache 2.4 PHP 7.3 Common PHP modules. No RDBMS (MySQL / MariaDB) – We won’t need that as you’re using RDS 🙂 Revision History 2019-11-25: mcrypt Installation Instructions 2019-11-24: Initial creation. Step 1: Follow AWS Guide on LAMP […]

Mac OS Terminal Shortcut for “ls -lGaf”

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On Ubuntu, I've always used "ll" to quickly get a list of folders/files from a directory.  This quick shortcut isn't built into iTerm for Mac.  Add the following to your ~/.bash_profile alias ll='ls -lGaf' What does this do? List folders & files. List hidden files. Sorts the output and disregard case-sensitivity.

Update Ubuntu 14

The CLI process on updating Ubuntu 14: # Fetches the list of available updates. sudo apt-get update # Strictly upgrades the current packages. sudo apt-get upgrade # Installs updates for current Ubuntu release. sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Note: This does not upgrade to a new version of Ubuntu (such as Ubuntu 16). This updates your current […]

Nginx 400 Bad Request The plain HTTP request was sent to HTTPS port

Problem When viewing any of my sites using port 80, the following error appeared on non-SSL websites: Nginx 400 Bad Request The plain HTTP request was sent to HTTPS port Original server block: server { listen 80; listen 443; ssl on; ssl_certificate /path/to/cert/example.pem; ssl_certificate_key /path/to/cert/example.private.key; root /path/to/wordpress; index index.php; # Website URL server_name blog.duaneleem.com; # […]