Finding Directories And Files And Changing Permissions

To get started let’s spin up an Ubuntu 16.4 LTS instance on AWS.  After instance is up and running, we need to add port 80 to the instance’s security group inbound rules.  There should be at least two ports open: 22, and 80. Now we can ssh into the instance and install Nginx, Node, and…

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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…