I am installing phabricator following this guide. Step I am having hard time with is
set up a domain name to point to the host you're installing on. You can either install Phabricator on a subdomain (like phabricator.example.com)
I am installing it in virtual box and I am not sure if I have to have a valid domain (bought?) or if I can set it up only locally which I need, I am supposed to only test the Phabricator functions.
If you're only testing locally, you can set up a test domain name in your /etc/hosts file (C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts for Windows clients). Usually you will use something like phabricator.local to avoid conflicting with real domains, but a subdomain that you or your organization owns is also an option.
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I have issues with enabling SSL/HTTPS certificate for my web site.
Context:
I have installed Bitnami Wordpress on AWS.
Webserver (EC2 instance) is running in Frankfurt region
When I purchased a domain name from AWS, I ended up automatically in "Global" region in which Hosted Zone was automatically created.
I have created elastic IP and added A entry into DNS with elastic IP
the entries (after several attempts to make this work) in DND (route 53) are: 2 A records where one points to my-domain-name.com and other to www.my-domain-name.com, 1 MX, 1 NS, 1 SOA, 4 CNAME, 3 TXT entries
Tried with following approaches
With Certificate Manager (Frankfurt zone) I have requested a certificate and created distribution list -> did not work
Tried also to connect with my Windows PC using ssh and pem file (following this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2AdWoPNios) -> connection did not work after installing Cygwin and making permission changes. Error messages "Permissions for key-pair.pem are too open..." or "Permission denied (public key".
Now, all this aside... is it really so damn hard to add a simple SSL/HTTPS to a website?
Does a person doing this need to have 3 PhDs from MIT? If I registered everything over AWS why can't I simply enable this option? Instead I am jumping from one tutorial to another and from wanting to add this SIMPLE functionality I ended up going through tutorials about changing Windows permissions on a file, installing and using Cygwin, learning how to work with it, researching how to change the inheritance of a file etc etc etc.
I just want to add SSL / HTTPS to my site and work on a site, not learn everything there is to learn about Cloud, Windows and Cygwin...
Can anyone please offer a simple, step-by-step solution? Tx!
I have a site www.testsite.com that is hosted by wordpress.com, I'm trying to issue a certificate so I can have https.
Is there any good methods to use when I cannot really install letsEncrypt's ACME client on my wordpress.com's account?
One way to issue your certificate for your wordpress (and actually, for any other website type), is to install (clone) Let's encrypt to your machine.
The main and very basic idea is that Let's Encrypt (LE) wants you to prove that you do have access control to your domain. This is achieved through a challenge. You have to output a string they provide you inside a folder. For example, at yourwordpress.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/
the (LE) authority wants to read a long string it provides you.
So, inside your wordpress site folder, create those directories.
Once this is successfully checked, LE, saves your ssl certificates in your local machine with root privileges.
Now you have to upload those certificates *.pem to your server. This last step is different depending on the company server.
Here is a nice tutorial that worked for me to get the LE certificates.
I have XAMPP running fine on one machine and I have 2 WordPress installs running fine on that machine. I would like to be able to access and work on those WordPress installs on other machines on my network.
Right now, I have it set so that if I try to access those directories from another computer on the network, all I get is either the XAMPP splash screen, or a 404 error if I try to access specific folders.
I've researched this and researched this and I have found numerous posts about how to do this.... but only in bits and pieces.
Does anyone know of a step by step, start to finish, guide of how to do this? In layman's terms?
Remote (from another network) would be great too. But I'll cross that bridge once I figure this out.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
I would suggest rather than shared folders you use an FTP client / server - I use Filezilla server and client for my local sandbox testing server. This will give you additional info like file and folder groups and permissions.
Got to ask the question what OS? have you opened port 80 on the server machine?
Things like this can also occur on Linux if the folders and files do not have the correct groups for access and or permissions.
chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html
the above if on linux will assign all the folders and files to be accessed by the apache process. not having the correct groups assigned can give you 404 when you know the files are actually there.
also check the file and folder permissions,
different files and directories have permissions that specify who and what can read, write, modify and access them - this wordpress page gives a good overview of permissions
http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions
edit p.s. to access then from other networks all you will have to do is forward ports from your router to your internal server then your ftp and www services will be accessable from the outside world. I would suggest using a .htpass htaccess password to protect your services at this point.
I am trying to introduce a staging step in my company's code-production process. We currently have ~10 eng clients who commit code individually, update local codebase - debug/check locally, then we deploy the code to production environment and have other employees QA. Obviously we would like to have a better pre-production test process to help catch bugs before they go live to the public.
My first attempt is to create a staging environment on an extra ubuntu box with the most recent committed code from the eng clients. I then could allow the Product Managers to check this site and find bugs, test features, expose bottlenecks, etc.
What I have: The ubuntu machine (local server) is currently configured as a normal eng client. It has a local drupal installation, complete backup of the db, and all of this is accessible locally. Let's go with mysite.com = official site; and the local staging domain I use on the ubuntu box = ms.com. This local ms.com works just fine, so in essence, I need to just allow other people at the company to navigate to some URL and it acts the exact way ms.com currently behaves. I have DNS servers pointing to the ubuntu box and it is running some side projects out of the /www folder.
In an effort to keep the side projects running, I think my solution is to create a name-based virtual host that points to the directory of the local drupal installation. Is this the right thing to do to achieve my goals? Is there an easier way to open up this local config to the employees.
In trying to set up the virtual host I did the following:
I added the static ip address of the local server to /etc/hosts
I added a virutalHost to /etc/apache2/sites-available with the DocumentRoot dir/DrupalInstallation
I added a2ensite
Then restarted apache.
Halfway success. I can get to the main page, but none of the modules load, I tried loading more hosts/variations, started changing all localhost references to the external, but I don't really know what the underlying issue is and I do not know how to diagnose it. The one interesting bit is that if you click on some of the links, it kicks you back out to the index page of the www folder - I don't think the site alias is 100% sticking for requests.
Let me know if there is any sort of log or report I can share to help diagnose/debug this. Any and all help greatly appreciated - thanks!
It sounds like your specific error accessing pages beyond the homepage is related to not having mod_rewrite enabled/configured.
A different approach:
On a bigger scale, it sounds to me like you might not have what it takes to administer the staging server when something goes wrong. If you're unskilled at linux server admin, save yourself the headache and use a preconfigured virtual appliance (e.g. Quickstart, AegirDev, or Walid) instead of the dedicated box. If your staging box isn't beefy enough to handle hosting virtual machines, then just run the QuickStart install scripts over a base uBuntu build.
Now that you know your staging server is working and runs imported Drupal sites successfully, install git, create a shared repo, and make sure you and your developers are setup to use git as their source control in their IDE.
I've tried looking around for a guide on moving a wordpress site into a dev environment, but all of the guides I've seen have been about CREATING one, as opposed to my situation, where I need to move an existin site to a local VM to create a dev/testing environment.
I'm fairly well-versed on how to create a dev environment from a regular old website, but just about everything wordpress-related gets me confused somehow.
Where I am now:
I've created a CentOS 6.0 VM using VMware on a Windows 7 machine. I've installed PHP, Apache, MySQL, and FTP-Server, along with all of the required updates and such. I have disabled SELinux.
I've moved the contents of the var/www/html/ folder from the live (production) server over to the var/www/html/ folder on my VM (currently exists within /var/www/html/my-website/)
My current issue:
When I attempt to access localhost/my-website/ I'm getting "Error establishing a database connection". An attempt at localhost/my-website/wp-admin/ tells me that either the database server is down (do I have to start this separately?) or that the username and/or password information in wp-config.php is incorrect (this was all simply moved from one place to another).
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Have you updated wp-config.php to include your localhost and database info for your local dev environment?
I bet wp-config.php is still pointing to your remote server DB which the MySQL DB wont allow for external connections
Also, make sure that the dev is using the same domain as the live version. On my windows machine, I do this by changing my hosts file. I'm sure there is something similar on your VM.
If I am unable to do this and I need the dev version to be under a different domain I would do the following.
Create mysqldump of live database
Edit the dump and replace
all occurrences of livedomain.com with devdomain.com (if you dont do
this at least check the wp_options table for the livedomain.com
occurences.
Change wp-config.php database settings.
I always ensure to use the same domain (controlled by local hosts file), and same db config in my dev environment as in my live environment.
If you've not changed the wp_options table for (option_name = siteurl or option_name = home), then chances are if you type in devdomain.com into your browser it will redirect to newdomain.com
Hope this helps
Blake
I know this was been answered but just to be perfectly clear:
on Centos6 you need to run httpd with php, and the mysql server. In the mysql server you have to import the database dump from the live website then you have to edit the config in wordpress to match the username and password on wordpress.
now when moved the db does not keep the username and password so I suggest you do this
commands to be run in shell:
service mysqld start
chkconfig mysqld on
that will take care of the db server running
then edit wp-config with username root and no password (I am pretty sure you have not added a password at mysql-server install)
post in here if you need further help.