Posts Tagged ‘ Amazon ’

Moving a IIS WordPress Site to Amazon EC2 (New Prices!)

2017/10/16
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Modified: 2017/11/12
RDP-Options

What is Wrong with Home Server? After a RAID drive hiccup on my local Windows 2008 Server, I was more inclined to consider an external hosting options.  And one of my friends already uses Amazon hosting for at least 4 years now.  So I decided to invest some time to explore this option.   What is Covered Here? – Terminology – Pricing – How to  extract your original ADMIN password – How to open a Custom Port on My Amazon Server – How to transfer files using RDP – How to launch an instance with Instance Store – What if I am Using SQL Express and need a regular D/B Backup…

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Amazon Linux Apache 2.4 reverse proxy with SSL to serve Node.js application

2017/10/09
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Modified: 2017/10/09
SSL Test Report

Recently, I spent about 36 hours researching, and thinking, and trying, and learning a lot about Apache server before I could crack this one.  After I found a solution, a had a long <VirtualHost> entry.  In this article I present only entries that are required for reverse proxy to work and your Node.js app still to be aware of client IP address. Problem: You want Apache 2.4 to be your front end for your Node.js application.  All the transaction should occur over HTTPS. Your visitors do not have to specify a post number in URL. I do not cover here: – how to install and configure Node.js; – how to get a…

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Move WordPress to a new Windows Server 2012 on Amazon AWS

2017/05/11
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Modified: 2017/04/30
Move WordPress to a new Windows Server 2012 on Amazon AWS

This article is about moving your Windows-based WordPress and other sites (some ASP, some ASP.NET) from older to a newer instance using AMAZON cloud server  instances.  Procedures described here do not involve any installation.  Just copy files and edit CONFIG files.  We do not manipulate Registry as well (except to change inbound RDP port). Sample installation in this article was tested on Amazon Small instance.  Image used  was Windows 2012 Server x64 with SQL Server2012 Express.  This article can be used to create you own check list while preparing to migrate to a new Amazon server. Why would you decide to upgrade or move to a new instance/server?  Here are some driving reasons:  Something is no…

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