So tonight I moved my websites to AWS. I logged into AWS and created all my DNS zones and records in Route 53 and then logged into multiple DNS registrars they were registered with and pointed them to Route 53 DNS servers. I chose the default Amazon Linux AMI and then...
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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...
Website Content Transfer (Webscraping using jQuery Selectors and Node.js)
I was looking at how to transfer product information from custom shop to WooCommerce in Wordpress. My challenge was to get all the data for a mass product transfer without doing a lot of manual entry. With products online they generally have consistent html divs,...
jmits.com.au transferred to Eleganthemes Divi theme over WordPress
So as of June 12 I'm no longer a full-time employee of Atlantic Pacific Foods. I will be doing some consulting work through "James McDonald IT Services". Seeing as http://jmits.com.au was a nice HTML site put together for me by my sister I've kept it as is for years....
Google Algorithm Change Traffic Increase
On May 19 2014 Google made an Algorithm change as can be seen at this Google Algorithm Change History page. Around the same time I moved my website from Rackspace to DigitalOcean Anyway, a day or so later I noticed a marked increase in daily traffic. I thought perhaps...
www.domaincentral.com.au run a mile
Just trying to help a friend get Wordpress running on Domain Central The one click install of Wordpress they provided was many versions behind so I deleted it and attempted to upload 3.9.1 and did the install. And then ran straight into a brick wall: Domain central is...
What is Your Web Server saying to Your Browser Behind Your Back?
If you are wanting information about the interaction between your PHP web application framework (Wordpress, Joomla, CakePHP, Drupal, etc), your web server (Apache, IIS, Nginx) and your browser. You can do the following. Create a file on your PHP enabled web server...
Apache to Nginx
Just completed moving this website https://toggen.com.au/blog to nginx web server. The issues I found: Installing and configuring php-fpm to run per user Learning the syntax of the nginx conf files Rewriting the .htaccess files into the correct nginx rules Trying to...
ElegantThemes Divi FTW
I have a friend who does roof tiling and repairs, along with gutter cleaning in Maitland NSW. I have just gotten him a website going using Eleganthemes.com Divi Wordpress theme. The Divi theme is a powerful html5 mobile friendly theme which has so many pre -...
WordPress.com JetPack Plugin — The Interconnectedness of All Things
Just hooked my blog up to Wordpress.com jetpack plugin which allows publicizing a self hosted blog using any number of social accounts that one subscribes to. So I've hooked The Telarah Times up to Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+. As this is my first post after doing...
Sydney to Kuala Lumpur
On the flight I managed to sit across the isle from a man who couldnt release himself from his seat belt. So after assisting him with that he noticed my mastery of the inflight entertainment system and kept bothering me to help him with it. He was also a...
Sydney Airport – Free wifi
Finally got through the customs to the gate. Everyone is so connected to their smart devices (us included) that they forget to read the signs telling them not to have their phones out while going through customs. The other funny thing is people dont get how to use...
Configure CakePHP 2.x to Detect and Serve Mobile Browser Pages
Put here for later: http://madething.org/post/661607317/mobile-browser-detection-and-optimization-in-cakephp http://doctorfox.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/mobile-browser-detection-and-optimization-in-cakephp-made-simple/ Only thing needing to be added would be a cookie...
A New Look and a Slight Name Change
A New Template With Googles recent (April) algorithm changes my website suffered a 50% drop in traffic. So I thought it was time to go for new theme. I have chosen a HTML5 theme named FavePersonal from Crowd Favorite. It's got a lot of features that I'm still learning...
Cannot see Advanced Editor Buttons in WordPress
Just discovered that there is an option per user in Wordpress to disable the visual editor So if you can't see the advanced editor buttons you need to click on "Users => Your Profile" and uncheck "Disable the visual editor when writing"
Getting APC Cache and batcache working on my Server
In Wordpress Admin Area Installed the "Batcache Manager" and "APC Object Cache" plugins using the Plugins ==> Add New option in the Wordpress Admin Panel and didn't activate created phpinfo.php in the web root of my webserver and called it via a browser Contents of...
Website Speed Up
Just discovered my traffic to this website has dropped by about 50% not sure why, could be the vagaries of searching engine ranking. Update: Apparently there has been some 52 algorithm changes on Google in April alone so I think I may be the victim of the Google SEO...
Long Term Electronic Storage of Purchase Receipts
Bunnings Warehouse an Australian hardware supplier prints purchase receipts that have a tendency to fade to the point of being unreadable. The rate at which they fade seems to depend on how much light they get and how much heat they have to endure. The problem is that...