This is a timer for the Raspberry Pi that lights the lights on the JamHat Hobby Board as the timer progresses through its cycle. I use it as a Pomodoro Timer for timing 30 minute intervals. When you click the blue button, that starts the timer (its set to 30 minutes by default, but this … Read more
In this post I’ll talk about the optimising / configuring I did on Apache. So my site could live happily on its new home of AWS EC2 small instance ( running Amazon Linux ). The guide below covers sites that get maybe a few hundred page views per day (if you have bigger traffic you … Read more
In this post I’ll run over how to setup WP-CLI on a Docker web server image ( so you can easily use it todo a Database find and replace , would is handy when you need to migrate a site from one place to another ). This presumes you have PHP setup on the command … Read more
Rough notes, will pull this togther in a blog post at later date. issue: The requested URL /login/ was not found on this server. resolution: add to manually enable mod rewrite on command line in the container: # launch a terminal in the container docker exec -it e39431779799 bash # enable modrewrite a2enmod rewrite /etc/init.d/apache2 … Read more
Using (private/public) keys to restrict access is definitely the best way to secure access to a server via SSH. However it can be abit of pain if multiple people need access and they aren’t that tech savvy. Another way to secure SSH but not have to worry about keys is by limiting the login attempts … Read more
How to import a MAMP mysql database (bypassing phpmyadmin problems) Recently I’ve being have a problem importing a large database in MAMP Mysql via phpmyadmin (and after altering various php variables in php.ini, I still couldn’t get it to import). So I tried another approach to import it from the command line a quick google … Read more