by Ryan | Sep 26, 2019 | Server
Backups are important but sometimes files are just too big to save to your computer or to the server that you’re trying to backup. This is when you might want to backup to another server through ssh. Here is a command that allows you to backup a folder to...
by Ryan | Aug 25, 2019 | Server
The issue is that Virtualmin currently only supports a single version of PHP FPM and seems to want to use PHP 7.2 no matter what I do, and I want it to use PHP 7.3 which is also installed. This appears to be a long-standing issue with Virtualmin. I solved it by...
by Ryan | Sep 18, 2018 | Other
I want to store this one for later so I’m posting it here. If you find it useful feel free to link to it. I wanted to version some files I’m working on but didn’t want to use a git service like BitBucket, GitLab, etc. mainly because they are huge and...
by Ryan | Feb 26, 2017 | Code, Server
If you’re running Apache web server and you have your site protected with HTTP authentication but still want to allow Let’s Encrypt/Certbot to be able to issue a certificate you will have to allow access to the .well-known folder on your site. Otherwise...
by Ryan | Feb 14, 2017 | Server
First provision your server at your desired web host. I recommend using an 8GB Linode VPS. I could not get the server to start on a 4GB but maybe some day they will optimize it enough for that if you aren’t planning to have a lot of players. Linode is great...
by Ryan | Jan 13, 2017 | Server
Recently I noticed a few sites had a page download instead of displaying when they were working perfectly fine before. I’m not 100% sure why but in my case the fix was to go into Virtualmin and toggle the PHP Version to some other version and back to my current...
by Ryan | Mar 11, 2016 | Code, Server
Here’s a BASH script I wrote which downloads and installs the Java JDK RPM. Tested on CentOS 6.x. If you are looking to install on Ubuntu (or Mint) go here. It also downloads the Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) Unlimited Strength Jurisdiction Policy Files...
by Ryan | Mar 9, 2015 | Other
Have you ever wanted to do a grep search on all files for a variable such as $_REQUEST, $_GET or $_POST but couldn’t figure it out? I have tried to do this a few times but end up just giving up because I don’t usually figure it out. This time I wanted to...
by Ryan | Feb 22, 2015 | Server
I had a website that was moved to a new domain name but I wanted to make all the old URLs redirect to the new domain. However, redirecting using a typical .htaccess redirect as shown below wouldn’t work because it was new using the old domain as a ServerAlias to...
by Ryan | Dec 22, 2014 | Server
I recently had to update PHP on a server and the php.ini settings but then the date.timezone wasn’t set in a bunch of servers. So I decided just to search and replace them instead of doing them all individually. find . -name ‘php.ini’ -type f -exec...
