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How to renew Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate.

If your Let's Encrypt SSL certificate is needing to be renewed, here is how to simply do it (assuming you are on a Linux or Ubuntu server). ***Make sure you have installed certbot, see this article for more info: Install and Secure UniFi Cloud Controller on Amazon Web Services - SimpliWiFi | Event Technology Services…
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SSL – Let’s Encrypt with Unifi

We’re going to set up Let’s Encrypt for secure HTTPS communication with the server (and to get rid of those pesky security screens when we browse to UniFi).  We’re going to use Certbot to set up Let’s Encrypt – this well help to automate the entire process. Install Certbot (https://certbot.eff.org/instructions): sudo add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot Press ENTER…
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SSH zip only certain types of files recursively on Linux

If you are looking for a command to run via ssh that ZIPs all files (of a certain type) recursively here you go: 1 - Switch into the website folder, then run zip -R YOURZIPFILENAME '*.php' '*.html' '*.js' '*.css' 2 - You can also run this from outside the website folder: zip -r YOURZIPFILENAME website_folder…
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Go Daddy and PHP.ini file.

If you are using GoDaddy and hosting Linux with them, you may be needing to modify the PHP.ini configuration file. The PHP initialization files can manage form, server, and environmental variables as well as server-side cookies, temporary directories, error display, and error logging. First, you need to know how to modify it (or where to…
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Linux Helpful Commands

Here is a list of some helpful Linux commands (all these commands assume you are a ROOT user): Need to search all your files, on your server for a word(s)? grep -r "SEARCH WORDS HERE" . Add on "-l" if you want to return ONLY the file that search word is in. Add on "-i"…
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Transferring a WordPress Site

If you are needing to transfer an entire WordPress site (entire meaning EVERYTHING) than here is the plugin you need! https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/ Install it, activate it. Go and make a backup/transfer of your entire site Upload the 2 files it creates, installer.php and the backup zip file to your new site Go to your new site…
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jQuery Easy Countdown

If you're looking for an easy jQuery countdown timer, check this one out. Not much to say about it; A note on Date - the JavaScript Date constructor expects the year, month, and day as parameters. However, the month ranges from 0 to 11. To make explicit what date is intended (does a month of…
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