AWS doesn’t grant root access by default to EC2 instances. This is an important security best practise. Users are supposed to open a ssh connection using the secure key/pair to login as ec2-user. Users are supposed to use the sudo command as ec2-user to obtain elevated privileges. Problems arise with a number of software packages…
If you’re on a cPanel server, you’ve probably noticed a sizable folder called ‘virtfs’ sitting in /home, which would appear at first to be using a ton of space. Your first inclination might be to delete it, but don’t! Most likely, the files in that folder are actually just hard links or bind mounts and…
XAMPP is a helpful development tool. However, you may run into problems at some point, such as receiving the notification: “Apache shutdown unexpectedly”. This error might seem to come out of nowhere, so identifying the cause – let alone the solution – can be puzzling. See how Kinsta stacks up against the competition. Fortunately, there is a…
To check the load: sar -q -f /var/log/sa/sa$(date +%d -d yesterday) To check the CPU status: sar -p -f /var/log/sa/sa$(date +%d -d yesterday) To check the Swap Space usage: sar -S -f /var/log/sa/sa$(date +%d -d yesterday) To check the RAM memory usage: sar -r -f /var/log/sa/sa$(date +%d -d yesterday)
Listing sizes in AWS S3 Buckets Getting the whole bucket size aws s3 ls s3://$BUCKETNAME/ –recursive –human-readable –summarize | tail -n2 Tail is used because otherwise all files will be printed on screen (but you may want that for some reason). Getting the size of a specific directory/file You just need to add the path…
Send A Test Mail via Exim Command line Sending a test mail from a server with a configured exim is easy as pie. From your user shell: tell exim that we want to send a mail to an recipient and tell us about the details of the sending procedure $ exim -v receipient@foo.bar Tell exim…
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This guide will show you how to extend or resize an ext2/3/4 and XFS File System without LVM at runtime. This could be a root partition configured with ext2/3/4 or XFS filesystem but without any LVM configured. Step 1: Check your current root disk capacity For this demonstration, I have a CentOS 7 VM with…
Go to system/startup.php and find following lines of code: if (!ini_get(‘date.timezone’)) { date_default_timezone_set(‘UTC’); } Replace with following lines of code by changing to your timezone date_default_timezone_set(‘Australia/Sydney’); Synchronize PHP and Database Timezone The query we use to set database timezone if you are super admin is below: SET time_zone=’offset’; But everyone has no super admin access…
OpenCart is one of the simplest e-commerce platforms to build an online store. OpenCart offers you an ‘easy-to-work-with’ code-base with which you can get an e-Commerce site online, quickly. If you are looking for a safe way to move OpenCart website from one domain to another, follow the process below. Here are the steps to…