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erics , July 31st, 2013
These are the steps I took to get this installed on a t1.micro AWS instance. OPTIONAL: Increase virtual memory for compiling Passenger as per warnings from passenger-install-apache2-module dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap bs=1M count=1024 mkswap /swap swapon /swap BASIC INSTALLATION yum install -y gcc-c++ patch readline readline-devel zlib zlib-devel openssl-devel libxml2-devel libxslt-devel libcurl-devel make bzip2 autoconf automake […]
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erics , May 17th, 2013
Introduction WordPress installs globally have been taking quite a hit recently, as nefarious persons continue to attempt brute-force attacks against the WordPress login page. Based on research and experimentation, I have chosen the following approach to provide security with the lowest performance hit: require a web-server-level password for all requests to the wp-login.php file. This […]
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erics , March 27th, 2012
yum install httpd - devel
wget http : //www.fastcgi.com/dist/mod_fastcgi-current.tar.gz
tar xzf mod_fastcgi - current . tar . gz
cd mod_fastcgi - *
cp Makefile . AP2 Makefile
The next two steps will depend on your architecture: For ia-32:
make top_dir = / usr / lib / httpd
make top_dir = / usr / lib / httpd install
For ia-64:
make top_dir = / usr / lib64 / httpd
make top_dir = / usr / lib64 / httpd install
The module is installed in /etc/httpd/modules. Add the following to /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: LoadModule fastcgi_module modules/mod_fastcgi.so
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erics , February 25th, 2012
yum install glib2 - devel
yum install fuse - devel
yum install libcurl - devel
wget http : //sourceforge.net/projects/curlftpfs/files/latest/download
tar xvzf curlftpfs - 0.9.2.tar.gz
cd curlftpfs - 0.9.2
. / configure
make
make install
http://curlftpfs.sourceforge.net/
How-To's , Technology Tags: Amazon , Amazon Linux , AWS , CentOS , compile , configure , Curl , curlftpfs , fuse , glib , howto , make , make install , tips , Yum 2 comments
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erics , February 9th, 2012
YMMV… /usr/share/doc/mysql-server-5.1.52
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Author:
erics , February 9th, 2012
yum install sysstat
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erics , January 20th, 2012
Stop the instance first…YMMV:
yourHost # ec2-describe-images describe-images -o amazon --filter "manifest-location=*pv-grub-hd0_1.02-i386*" --region us-east-1
IMAGE aki - 805ea7e9 ec2 - public - images / pv - grub - hd0_1 . 02 - i386 . gz . manifest . xml amazon available public i386 kernel instance - store paravirtual xen
yourHost # ec2-modify-instance-attribute --kernel aki-805ea7e9 --region us-east-1 i-39764XXX
kernel i - 39764XXX aki - 805ea7e9
http://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/latest-release-notes/
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erics , December 30th, 2011
yum -- enablerepo = epel install perl - Net - Amazon - EC2 perl - File - Slurp perl - DBI perl - DBD - MySQL perl - Net - SSLeay perl - IO - Socket - SSL perl - Time - HiRes perl - Params - Validate ca - certificates
wget - O / opt / aws / bin / ec2 - consistent - snapshot http : //bazaar.launchpad.net/~alestic/ec2-consistent-snapshot/trunk/download/head:/ec2consistentsnapsho-20090928015038-9m9x0fc4yoy54g4j-1/ec2-consistent-snapshot
chmod 0775 / opt / aws / bin / ec2 - consistent - snapshot
http://alestic.com/2009/09/ec2-consistent-snapshot http://www.thatsgeeky.com/2011/05/ec2-consistent-snapshot-on-amazons-linux-ami/ http://www.thatsgeeky.com/2011/06/rotating-ebs-snapshots-ec2-prune-snapshots/
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erics , November 6th, 2011
NOTE: This procedure requires Postfix version 2.7 or greater! Create or edit the following three files: /etc/postfix/main.cf
sender_dependent_default_transport_maps = hash : / etc / postfix / sender_dependent_default_transport_maps
/etc/postfix/master.cf
aws - email unix - n n - - pipe
flags = R user = mail argv = / opt / aws / bin / ses - send - email . pl - r - k / var / spool / mail / aws - credentials - e https : //email.us-east-1.amazonaws.com -f ${sender} ${recipient}
/etc/postfix/sender_dependent_default_transport_maps yourName@gmail.com aws-email: yourName@yourDomain.com aws-email: Verify the credentials are in place and have the correct ownership and permissions:
chown mail : mail / var / spool / mail / aws - credentials
chmod 600 / var / spool / mail / aws - credentials
Compile the new map and reload postfix.
postmap / etc / postfix / sender_dependent_default_transport_maps
postfix reload
tail - f / var / log / maillog
http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#sender_dependent_default_transport_maps http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/index.html?IntegratingWithServer.Postfix.html http://www.kutukupret.com/2010/01/02/postfix-bind-sender-domain-to-dedicated-outgoing-ip-address/
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erics , October 31st, 2011
Here are the Amazon docs: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/index.html?IntegratingWithServer.Sendmail.html Edit sendmail.mc and generate a new sendmail.cf
# yum install sendmail-cf mailx
# cd /etc/mail
# cp sendmail.cf sendmail.cf.original
# cp sendmail.mc sendmail.mc.original
# vi sendmail.mc - Apply edits shown below
# make -C /etc/mail
# vi mailertable
# makemap hash /etc/mail/mailertable < /etc/mail/mailertable
# service sendmail restart
/etc/mail/mailertable .{TAB}aws-email:%0 Replace the {TAB} with an actual tab character, and the last character is a zero. /etc/mail/sendmail.mc Change: DAEMON_OPTIONS(Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA’)dnl To: dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA’)dnl Please note above the space after the leading ‘dnl’ and that there is a trailing ‘dnl’ […]
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