VPN server on EC2 instance
The easiest way to setup VPN server on Amazon EC2 instance.
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Apache 2.4, PHP 5.4 on EC2 instance
This tutorial just updated version of my previous one . This time we are going to install newer version of apache (httpd 2.4), PHP 5.4 but 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 5.4, how to enable and APC, and how to install HTTPS on your server, with purchasing SSL certificate.
Shuttle XS35 V2 and CentOs drivers
Some time ago I bought extremely quiet Shuttle XS35 V2 device to have something “seperate” for my web development work. Right now this awesome fan less device has many purposes. Works as full web dev stack, with Apache, PHP, MySQL, mongoDB, and even Jenkins machine.
Recently I realised that this small ugly device got also WiFi cart into it. Because I’m running out of cables and space in my apartment i figure out, that I could move it easily without plugging into it more cables.
PHPUnit and PEAR install on MacOS
There is a plenty of tutorials how to install PEAR and PHP, but there is always something “missing” in this configuration. So this time, i’m going to “sing the same song again”.
Utilizing multi core for tar+gzip/bzip compression/decompression
We have couple options: pigz and pbzip2 .
tar -c --use-compress-program=pigz -f my_archive.tar.gz /home/archive The other trick useful trick is that you can exclude some directories or files
tar -zcvf my_archive.tar.gz --exclude='cache' --exclude='.git' /home/archive