I was getting the following errors when using an older version of the Amazon EC2 API Tools: $ ec2-describe-regions Unknown problem connecting to host: ‘https://ec2.amazonaws.com’ Unable to execute HTTP request: peer not authenticated The solution was to upgrade to the latest AWS CLI tools and start using the aws command instead. For example: aws ec2 […]
Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers MySQL Server via the Relational Database Service (RDS) offering. Unfortunately, AWS doesn’t allow ICMP Ping to reach the nodes, so as configured by default, Nagios will fail on the host check. The solution is to submit a Passive Check for that host. Login to the Nagios web console Click on […]
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 […]
Install Procedure Download and extract into /usr/local: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/s3tools/s3cmd/1.0.1/s3cmd-1.0.1.tar.gz
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cd/usr/local/bin
ln-s/usr/local/s3cmd-1.0.1/s3cmd
/usr/local/bin/s3cmd--configure
Access Key:{ACCESS_KEY}
Secret Key:{SECRET_KEY}
Encryption password:{PASSWORD}
Configuration saved to ‘/root/.s3cfg’ Command Line Examples List all buckets: s3cmd ls Make a new bucket in the default region (US): s3cmd mb s3://{YOUR_BUCKET_HERE} Make a new bucket in a specific region: s3cmd mb –bucket-location={DATACENTER} s3://{YOUR_BUCKET_HERE} As of now the datacenters are: US (default), EU, us-west-1, […]
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 […]
erics, April 24th, 2018 
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