NEW and Easy way: Login to AWS Console. Go to the Network and Security >> Keypair.Give the name of your keypair (mykeypair) and keytype (RSA) and Private keyformat (.pem). and click on the create keypair. It will ask you to download .pem file in your local machine. Save it at and remember the location.Login to…
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Changing the Time Zone on Amazon Linux
TIP: If you are using a Linux server with, Amazon Linux, RDS database and PHP, you also need to change the timezone settings on them! Amazon Linux instances are set to the UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) time zone by default, but you may wish to change the time on an instance to the local time…
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How to install PHP 7 and MySQL on EC2 Instance – Amazon
1. Install Apache 2.4 and PHP 7.0 on Amazon Linux AMI # Remove current apache & php (If you have installed a earlier version or you are having problems. Don't worry this WILL NOT remove any of your files, and it will make backup's of any config files you have). sudo yum remove httpd* php*…
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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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