I recently migrated a number of WordPress websites and a custom PHP website from AWS RDS to MySQL on an EC2 instance using the AWS Database Migration Service. I didn’t know beforehand that secondary indexes, foreign keys, and auto_increment fields aren’t migrated – this made a heck of a mess,…
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.…
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.
Installing and Configuring PHP 5.6 on Amazon Linux
I’ve recently switched back from HHVM to PHP 5.6 because the version of HHVM I was using (3.6.6) keep hogging memory and failing to respond, and upgrading to a more recent version of HHVM is really difficult on Amazon Linux. PHP7 doesn’t work with one of my WordPress themes (Photocrati) so I can’t use that…