How to migrate your WordPress website from a hosted provider to AWS. Download all the website files from the hosted server. Export your MYSQL database (be sure to select the option to include all tables) into a .sql file Create a MYSQL database in AWS RDS Using a database client – run the .sql file...
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PostJanuary 8, 2020May 29, 2020
Setting up WordPress with GoDaddy certificates
How to set up SSL on WordPress on an AWS Ubuntu EC2 instance using GoDaddy’s certificates. After establishing your GoDaddy SSL certificate to your domain, and verifying it, you will be given the private key and CSR. Then after verifying it, you will have the option in downloading your certificates based on various options, choose...
PostSeptember 28, 2019March 20, 2020
Installing WordPress on a Ubuntu AWS instance using a MYSQL RDS
Here is how you manually install WordPress on a Ubuntu AWS instance. And pointing your WordPress database to a MYSQL RDS. Sign into your AWS account –> RDS –> “Create Database”– Choose “Standard Create”– Engine Option: “MYSQL”– Version: <The latest version 5>– (For now, choose the “Free Tier” template)– Give the database an identifier (doesn’t...
PostFebruary 28, 2019May 27, 2019
OSX Persistent Environment Variables for GUI Applications
This worked for “macOS High Sierra” version: 10.13.6 Create the file: my.startup.plist with the following contents: Modify the environment variables with yours. Then save. Run the command: launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/my.startup.plist Restart your GUI applications that require the environment variables.
PostFebruary 24, 2019October 12, 2020
Raspberry Pi & RetroPie Setup
Initial Raspberry Pi Setup: Download the Raspbian Jessie “Lite” image from: http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_lite/images/raspbian_lite-2017-07-05/ Extract .img onto a microSD card: (Ref: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/mac.md) Connect the SD card reader with the SD card inside. Note that it must be formatted as FAT32. From the Apple menu, choose ‘About This Mac’, then click on ‘More info…’, then click on ‘System...