Finding Directories And Files And Changing Permissions

PM2 is a great process manager for Node.js apps.  I have been using PM2 for a while, but lately it gave up on me – it refused to start one of my Node.js apps.  I tested the app and did not find any problems with it: it started up and ran ok when I was…

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…

It is possible to disable .htaccess files while using mod_rewrite in virtual host’s configuration file. Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Require all granted RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] Share this article

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