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AWS Bucket Policies
Been working towards my Amazon Certified Solutions Architect --- Associate qualification. Created a static website from an S3 bucket and everytime I synced my local files up to it I would get access denied due to the sync removing perms. But that is where bucket...
When outbound HTTP and HTTPS is denied you have to get creative with 3proxy and SSH
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-route-web-traffic-securely-without-a-vpn-using-a-socks-tunnel The above link has a how-to on running a socks5 proxy just by using ssh. PS I have used Digital Ocean for 3+ years and except for one instance of...
SeLinux Apache Joomla — No network connect for you!
If you have Apache+PHP+Joomla and are trying to use the Joomla Update feature while seLinux is enabled you will probably see But you can get it to work if you set the correct option in seLinux ...
Elegant Themes Visual Builder No Worky on NGINX Server
Symptoms: You are running php-fpm and nginx You can enter the visual builder from the home page https://jamesmcdonald.id.au/?et_fb=1 but not from a another url such as https://jamesmcdonald.id.au/contact?et_fb=1 Problem: The Divi Visual Builder uses ?et_b=1 query...
Cry Havoc and Release the Dogs of War — PHP 7.1.5 Upgrade Gotchas
So just doing a Joomla 3.7.1 to PHP7.1.5 upgrade. I have Chronoforms v5 installed (https://www.chronoengine.com/downloads/chronoforms) which works brilliantly btw. However on upgrade to PHP 7.1.5 and trying to save a form I got "0 Cannot use string offset as an array"...
Why S3-WriteObject Kept the Upload Going When I Control-C’d it
I would recommend just using the AWS Cli for windows instead of powershell Uploading 650MB chunks using S3-WriteObject. Didn't want to choke link during day so CTRL-C'd to exit the powershell script and found in the morning that the upload had happened any way. The...