Configuring MCrypt Support For Mod_PHP
MCrypt is a replacement for older crypt() package and crypt(1) command with extensions. It allows developers encryption functions, specifically allowing users to encrypt files or data streams....
View ArticleHow to Enable Passwordless Authentication with SSH
Often times you have automated scripts that require access to multiple machines from a single source and need to do so without having to deal with ssh password prompts. And in other instances you may...
View ArticleHelpful BASH Shell Command Prompts
Here are some helpful tips on altering your BASH command prompt. Info in your command prompt can improve your work productivity and also prevent you from doing the wrong thing at the wrong place. Add...
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How to create an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud EC2 Machine Image (AMI)
(UPDATED: 05/31/2010) This how to article will go over creating a Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Machine Image (AMI) from scratch. In this particular example we are creating a Centos 5.3 64bit AMI...
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How to Save a Snapshot of your Amazon EC2 Instance
This how to article will go over saving a snapshot of your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Machine Image (AMI). This is very useful for taking an existing AMI and modifying it to customize your...
View ArticleApache Mod_Deflate and Flash SWF Files Don’t Like Each Other
Recently I was working on a Flex project and upon completion and successful QA, I deployed it on a clients server for use. After embedding the SWF file and adding the data.xml that populated the flash...
View ArticleHow to create an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud EC2 Machine Image (AMI) CentOS...
This how to article will go over creating a Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Machine Image (AMI) S3 backed as well as EBS backed. In this particular example we are creating a Centos 6 64bit AMI from...
View ArticleAWS EC2 64-bit CentOS 6.3 Public AMI ‘s (EBS and Instance-Store)
For those of you looking for a 64-bit CentOS 6.3 AMI (Amazon Machine Image) to use or to create your own snapshot or custom AMI from, I have created both Instance-store and EBS backed Public AMI’s....
View ArticleA scalable Flask application using Gunicorn on Ubuntu 18.04 in Docker
This article will cover creating a scalable Flask application using Gunicorn on Ubuntu 18.04 in Docker. We loosely are defining Flask application to mean serving up a web page via a GET request,...
View ArticleScaling a Python Flask App with NGINX using Multiple Containers with Docker...
This article will go over scaling a Python Flask application utilizing a multi-container docker architecture. Leveraging Docker Compose we will create a NGINX Docker container that will act as a load...
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