Tagged: Linux

Node.js + PM2 + NGINX + Redis on CentOS 7

This is a quick setup guide for the application stack I have been using recently. Most of my latest work has been a throwback to the first server-side programming I did in the 90’s...

Slate Documentation Server on EC2 Amazon Linux

I was trying to setup the Slate API Documentation Server on an EC2 instance running Amazon Linux. When I fetch the git repository and attempted to install the dependencies using bundle install, it would...

Monitor IPSec VPN Tunnel

I have an IPSec Tunnel built from one of my servers to an integration partner which is used to secure our web service calls. It uses a IPSec, OpenSwan, and Pluto to maintain a...

Install logtail on CentOS

The developer of logtail has not made the repository available via yum for quick installation. Even if you don’t want to access logtailĀ from the command line, it is still used by several other scripts...

Disable WP-Cron in WordPress

What is WP-Cron? WP-Cron is the way that WordPress executes scheduled jobs that are added via wp_schedule_event() or one of its associated functions. First it’s a bit of a hack given the single threaded-ness...

Upgrade From MySQL to MariaDB on CentOS

Here is how you upgrade from MySQL 5.5+ to MariaDB 5.5, 5.6 or 10.0. After running MySQL 5.5 for a while and getting tired of not taking advantage of the features and performance enhancements,...