How to restart mysql server?
Every time I restart MySQL server bitnami@xxx:/$ sudo opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh start server WWarning: World-writable config file '/opt/bitnami/mysql/my.cnf' is ignored Warning: World-writable config...
View ArticleOn AWS do I have to open ports in an EC2 instance’s firewall as well as...
If I change my SSH port from 22 to 23453, I can no longer ssh in. In more detail, I’m using a Red Hat EC2 instance on Amazon Web Services. This is the second change I’ve on a fresh install (first...
View ArticleUsing Route 53 with EC2 Public DNS and Virtual Hosts
I would like subdomains of my EC2 Instance Public URL to point to different document trees in on my machine so foo.ec2-012-345-678-901.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com has a separate DocumentRoot to...
View Articleaws load balancer ssl termination implications
If I set up a load balancer on aws that terminates ssl at the load balancer, then the requests being sent to the application server is in plain text. That has definite security implications. How do...
View ArticleHow to setup multitenant Route53 subdomains with parent domain not on Route53?
My goal is to be able to add/drop subdomains for a multi-tenant app via Route53: tenant.example.com. Account provisioning should place the new tenant on a hosting node and then add the newly onboarded...
View ArticleEC2 instance keeps respawning, even after termination
A quite annoying EC2 instance keeps respawning, no matter how many times I try to delete or terminate it. What could be the cause of this? How can I finally get rid of this Micro testing instance?...
View ArticleEC2 Ubuntu with WordPress can’t connect to RDS
I have set up a WordPress website on a Ubuntu 12.04 Amazon ec2 machine by following this tutorial except the fact that I haven’t created a MySQL database and I am using an amazon RDS MySQL service....
View ArticleSquid showed up on port 8080. Possible Rootkit?
I recently attempted to connect to my EC2 server on 8080 and had some strange issues that weren’t occurring earlier. NGinx (though setup for :81) captures any requests on port 8080. If I stop nginx, I...
View ArticleWhich aws zone to choose if website traffic will be from india only
I am going to make my website live on AWS servers and 100% of intended website audience will be from India only. As amazon offers you to get services from various zones, I was wondering is there any...
View ArticleHow should I configure my ELB health check when using NameVirtualHosts and...
My ELB keeps taking my instances out of service, because the HTTP health check is failing. We have a DNS wildcard, and redirect everything to www: vhost.conf: ServerName www.example.com ServerAlias...
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