DevOps

People say that FTP is dead. But not everyone knows or can use SFTP, SSH whatever to update their website. Sometimes you just need something as simple as good old FTP server on your instance. Let’s do it.

Small 2019 update – Please check out this library – github.com/maxmind/MaxMind-DB-Reader-php

It’s a straight replacement of PHP module.

GeoIP extensions is quite use-full, but it requires some server – side magic. If you are looking for something simpler, just go with  ipstack.com or something similar – GeoIP .

Otherwise:

wget http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar
php go-pear.phar

We need geoip-devel libraries:

yum install geoip-devel

And newest (not stable) version of geoip:

sudo ./pecl install geoip-1.1.1

Don’t forget to add extension=geoip.so to your php.ini file.

AWS has extremely nice UI. But – with the time, you need to do something faster than just clicking via an interface. Sometimes you need to automate something (start/stop instances, make a backup. If you are wondering – there is a perfect time for CLI.

This time we are going to cook Apache (httpd 2.4), PHP 7.0 as a PHP-FPM . Instructions are pretty simple. You can just copy and paste command to get working stack in less then 15 minutes.

What you can learn from it? How to install Apache 2.4 and PHP 7, how to enable and opcache, and how to install HTTPS on your server, with purchasing SSL certificate.

It’s an extension of my previous article – how to create SWAP on EC2 instance.

This time, we are going to create separate volume.