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How to enable htpasswd Apache Basic Authentication via AWS cloudfront

29 October 2020·1 min read

Issue: Apache Basic htpasswd authentication not working via AWS CloudFront. Overview We had a website that was only allowed to access via basic password authentication as it was in the development...

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AWS Autoscaling is not working. Seems stuck

19 February 2018·1 min readArchive

Issue Today I was working on a modifying autoscaling group and playing with some options in suspended action. After testing the things, I found that the new instances were not launching even if I...

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WordPress White page error – Call to undefined function imagecreatefromstring

12 February 2018·1 min readArchive

If you ever get a white page on your WordPress, the best way to troubleshoot is to check the apache error log first. It will have enough information about the issue happening now. In my case, the...

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How to Install WordPress on an AWS EC2 Instance in just 10 Minutes

20 August 2017·1 min readArchive

In this video, we talk about creating a new EC2 instance on AWS with a fresh WordPress installation in just 10 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9oU7_w7RAA

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Synology NAS – LDAP Integration issue

15 July 2017·1 min readArchive

Issue After the latest update of Synolofy NAS 6.1, the LDAP integration is no more working. The NAS is throwing error while clicking on the LDAP detected users. Solution NAS >> Domain / LDAP >> LDAP...

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SSH or git-clone via Proxy

28 June 2017·1 min readArchive

Today we were setting up few Web servers on a private network which will be serving the traffic through the Load Balancer. The setup was simple until we came to know that the Webservers needs to...

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Jenkins not starting on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7

24 March 2017·1 min readArchive

Today i was installing Jenkins on a CentOS7 systems. After installing it via Jenkins yum repository, the service was not stating. The java was already installed on the server. Issue You have...

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Disable SU access for sudo users

11 January 2017·1 min readArchive

Some times you need to disable sudo su – access on your environment so that the users will use sudo command always and they will not switch to any other users account unnecessarily Lets see how to do...

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How to set custom DNS on CentOS7 AWS

30 August 2016·1 min readArchive

There may be scenarios, when you need to use a custom DNS server for your Instances. So if you are deploying your application on an CentOS 7 on AWS, lets see how can set a custom DNS server such as...

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How do I assign a static hostname to a private Amazon EC2 instance running RHEL 7 or Centos 7?

22 August 2016·1 min readArchive

As a Linux System admin, we always love to work on CentOS and RHEL. In my case i had to launch a CentOS7 instance from the AWS Marketplace again. When we set the hostname with hostnamectl and reboot,...

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EC2 Ubuntu – Allow SSH root login with Password

16 August 2016·1 min readArchive

Amazon AWS doesn’t allow root access by default on the OS level. Even though this is for recommended for security purpose, you may need to enable it for some high level operations such as conversion...

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New – AWS Application Load Balancer

14 August 2016·1 min readArchive

AWS has launched a new Application Load Balancer option on ELB. This option runs at Layer 7 and supports a number of advanced features. The original option is now knon as Classic Load Balancer, is...

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