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Enforce SSL on AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Enabling SSL on AWS Elastic Beanstalk with Classic Elastic Load Balancer is not that easy, it might seem impossible when for example we have to use a standard PHP Environment for our application deployment. Unfortunately Amazon AWS does not provide any option or additional tools to achieve this when using Classic Elastic Load Balancer and we will end up using being HTTP or HTTPS. There is no way to set up a redirect from HTTP to HTTPS being on Classic EB or ELB. No matter how unrealistic this it may sound taking into account that nothing publicly exposed should respond […]
Category: AWS | Published: 11/04/2019 | Updated: 23/04/2019Enable mod_deflate on AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Enabling mod_deflate module for Apache on AWS Elastic Beanstalk can be quite challenging as the environments fine tuning currently is not possible via web console yet. Luckily AWS provides some other clever ways that allows us to perform advanced configuration for Elastic Beanstalk deployments via .ebextensions (Elastic Beanstalk Extensions). By using these extensions we can perform almost any kind tweaks in terms of software for each individual environments that we have within our EB Application. In this short tutorial we will guide you, step by step as usual how to enable and configure mod_defalte module for Apache using .ebextensions for […]
Category: AWS | Published: | Updated: 23/04/2019Setting up AWS CLI on CentOS 7 is quite straight forward, no need for advanced knowledge or a huge amount of time in order to install this. AWS CLI is a very powerful toolset that helps you to manage all your AWS resources by using the Command Line Interface API calls instead of the well known classic Web Console. AWS CLI can be used and implemented in various projects like Automation, Cost Control, Security Audit etc. giving you the power to manipulate and query all AWS resources in a more granular manner. In this very short tutorial we will guide […]
Category: General | Published: 09/04/2019 | Updated: 26/08/2019Python is one of the most used programming language and in this tutorial we will show you how to install Python from source on a CentOS 7 operating system. We can safely say that Python, conceived in the late 1980s by Guido van Rossum, comes these days preinstalled on most Linux distributions. If it is not there by default then we can always install it, for example on CentOS we can get Python using yum utility but as we know that will not be the latest Python version available. We may have a new project that requires to be built […]
Category: General | Published: | Updated: 28/05/2019NGiNX SSL Setup and 301 Redirects
NGiNX SSL setup and 301 redirects, this is how is called our next tutorial where we will explain in just a few easy steps how to setup a SSL certificate on NGiNX and also how to force client browser to use HTTPS by managing all necessary 301 redirects served from HTTP protocol on port 80 to HTTPS protocol on port 443. The journey from a non-secured domain to a secured one is quite easy to implement with NGiNX and also very easy to maintain and renew in the future. This solution was tested using a CentOS 7 server but it […]
Category: General | Published: 06/04/2019 | Updated: 02/06/2019Install vips, vips-tools and vips-devel (libvips) on CentOS 7
In this tutorial we will talk about how to install vips, vips-tools and vips-devel (libvips) on CentOS 7. These packages can be required for various reasons like for example during installation of some NodeJS packages like GraphQL. Vips tools and development packages can be easily obtained and installed from Remi repo, unfortunately by default these packages are not present on CentOS repos. So let’s start our short step by step tutorial tutorial about installing Vips on CentOS 7. Table of contents Install Epel repo Install yum-utils Install and enable Remi repo Install vips (libvips) Install Epel repo On our very […]
Category: General | Published: | Updated: 23/04/2019