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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: 23/04/2019

Enable 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: 23/04/2019