Turning Our Atlanta Vacation Photos into a Video with PowerShell
Over the July 4th holiday, my family and I took a trip to Atlanta. It was one of those vacations that had a little…
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Bulk Create Cloudflare Origin CA Certificates with PowerShell
Cloudflare Origin CA certificates are useful when your origin server only receives traffic through proxied Cloudflare records. They encrypt traffic between Cloudflare and your…
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Test a Cloudflare Global API Key Connection with PowerShell
When you are automating Cloudflare tasks, it is useful to confirm that your credentials work before running a larger script. This small PowerShell script…
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Entering .com in Bucket Names Causes SSL Errors
I ran into a simple Amazon S3 naming mistake that created a much more confusing SSL problem: I added .com to an S3 bucket…
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Transfer S3 Contents Between Buckets with PowerShell
Moving files between Amazon S3 buckets is usually simple when the same AWS account owns everything. It gets a little more annoying when the…
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Configure UFW Firewall on Ubuntu for Web Servers
UFW, short for Uncomplicated Firewall, is a simple firewall management tool for Ubuntu. It is a good fit for web servers because the usual…
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Create an Nginx Default Catch-All Site on Ubuntu
When Nginx receives a request for an unknown domain, it may serve the first enabled site if there is no explicit default server. On…
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Install and Configure Redis on Ubuntu for Local Object Cache
Redis is often used as a local object cache for WordPress and other web applications. It can reduce repeated database work by keeping frequently…
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Install and Configure MySQL on Ubuntu for WordPress
MySQL is a common database choice for WordPress and many PHP applications. On Ubuntu, you can install it from the default package repositories and…
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Install PHP-FPM and Common PHP Extensions on Ubuntu
PHP-FPM is the usual way to run PHP behind Nginx on Ubuntu. It gives you a long-running PHP process manager instead of starting PHP…
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