Finding Directories And Files And Changing Permissions

Recently I got into a situation where I ran out of free space on my Ubuntu instance. The first thing you need to do is to check how much available space you have. The command below will give you the general idea. df -h To list the files/directories that take up most of the space…

Sometimes I have to go through log files searching for a certain error message. The command below will show you log file names and lines where the message was recorded. grep -rnw ‘logs/’ -e ‘Hello World’ To learn more about “grep” command use the following link https://help.ubuntu.com/community/grep Share this article

Sometimes you need to block access from certain IP addresses to your web site. It is easy to do in .htaccess file if you are running Apache. What if your server is behind a load balancer ? The code below lets you block IP addresses when your server is behind AWS load balancer. Share this…

In this post I would like to share a workflow I use to install a website on my Amazon Web Services cloud server.  My server configuration consists of Nginx – a server for my Node.js applications and a reverse proxy for Apache, Apache that I use for hosting websites, PHP5-FPM, MySQL database, and Postfix email…

Sometimes your website may be making more redirects than necessary to account for https and stripping or adding trailing slash.

Earlier I covered how to continuously run Node.js app with Forever.  In this article I will explain how to run Node.js app with Supervisord.  Since Homestead already has Supervisord installed, we will use it. First, let’s create a simple node application.  Edit after.sh script in Homestead installation to contain the following code: #!/bin/sh cd /var/www…