ProPhoto is a popular theme for photographers. It lets you create great looking websites relatively easily, and their support is absolutely top notch. ProPhoto 6 features responsive design, a big step forward in our opinion, as it allows more effective caching and optimisation. Hit “read more” if you want some…
Moving WordPress Between AWS Regions – EC2 and RDS
Moving WordPress Between AWS Regions – EC2 and RDS In previous articles, I’ve described how to set up WordPress in AWS using EC2 and RDS. In this article I’ll describe the steps I took to move the server between regions and get it working again – in my case from…
Backing up an AWS EC2 server to Dropbox – Part Seven – Hosting WordPress on AWS Tutorial
Backing Up EC2 To Dropbox Introduction In this tutorial we’ll be setting up a backup databases from EC2 to Dropbox. You can use it to backup anything you like – logs, your entire webroot, anything really. AWS is reliable, but an offsite backup is best practice – AWS doesn’t make this easy.…
AWS Amazon Linux: allow ssh & sftp access to server
Today I wanted to sftp into the webroot for my server (/var/www) but because of the way the permissions are set up the default ec2-user doesn’t have permission to do this. That directory tree is owned by the user “fred”, which otherwise doesn’t get used. I decided to allow ssh…
Fixing WordPress indexes, foreign keys and auto_increment fields
NB: this article is from 2017. While it is a useful guide, you should validate the process before using it. It may be inaccurate or incomplete as WordPress evolves. Comments in 2024 have indicated it still works, but use it at your own risk! I recently migrated a number of…
How to Migrate from RDS to MySQL on EC2
Introduction A year ago I moved all my websites to AWS using the free tier, using an EC2 t2.micro and the RDS relational database service. Now that my year of free tier is up I’d like to reduce my costs. I want to migrate from RDS to MySQL on EC2.…
Remove Gmail Warnings: Setting up DKIM and SPF for your domain
Google has announced recently that they will show an alert if they can’t authenticate the identity of the sender, in both the Gmail website, Android, and Apple iPhone, instead of showing your contact photo. Read on to see how to do something about this by setting up DKIM and SPF…
Upgrade Running Nginx on Amazon Linux
If you’d like to upgrade running Nginx on your Unix server version read on for some information on how to achieve it.
Fixing This Content Is No Longer Available WordPress Facebook Sharing Error
Fixing This Content Is No Longer Available Error Mike from Unique Moments photography contacted me to ask if I could fix a small problem with his WordPress Blog, running the Infinity Grid theme on Good Gallery – though this idea applies to any content shared to Facebook from any platform. Whenever he tried…
Setting Up Cloudflare CDN and Caching – Part Six – Hosting WordPress on AWS Tutorial
Setting up CloudFlare Free CDN for Website Caching and Security Introduction This multi-part tutorial is a complete guide to setting up WordPress on AWS. In this part of our tutorial we’ll be Setting up CloudFlare, a CDN that will let us distribute resources from our website around the world to…