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This page focuses on setting up webservers in AWS Lightsail using the Bitnami LAMP stack image, but many of the basic principles apply to setting up similar webservers elsewhere. Setting up Lightsail Bitnami LAMP web servers Step 1: Create a Lightsail LAMP S...

Step 1: Stop Apache To use the WebSockets server properly, we want to use port 443 to serve requests, and Apache is going to get in the way of that. If your webserver has Apache installed (e.g. as part of a premade image), stop it. sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscrip...

Generating SSL certificates when your webservers are behind a load balancer In situations where your webservers aren't behind a load balancer, LetsEncrypt is simple to use (often via certbot) to generate and automatically renew SSL certificates for a given we...

Modifying the Bitnami instance httpd.conf files bitnami.conf (/opt/bitnami/apache/conf/bitnami/bitnami.conf) Make sure to add these modifications to the server's bitnami.conf file (on Bitnami instances, this is in /opt/bitnami/apache/conf/bitnami/bitnami.con...

Add/replace the lines below within the phpMyAdmin conf file (config.inc.php). To view full table list in phpMyAdmin console, import the create_tables.sql file from the phpmyadmin/sql folder into the RDS database server (i.e. not selecting any specific databas...

How to enable tunneling into given webservers on startup, on Windows, instead of having a PuTTY window open just for that purpose. Step 1: Create PuTTY session that will be used for the tunnel To work properly, your session must be authed via PPK, and not re...

Session Configuration Note that you can import saved sessions from PuTTY, which saves having to re-enter a lot of stuff in WinSCP Change connection protocol to SCP instead of SFTP. In Advanced -> Environment -> SCP/Shell, change shell to "sudo su -", whilst...

Warning: auto-generated passwords  When creating an RDS instance, if you choose "auto-generate a password", it will only appear in the blue AWS notification after you create it - don't dismiss that notification or you'll have to reset the password! Parameter...

Note: this isn't used, as despite the lower cost, ARM has significantly lower performance for Deserted Chateau's use case (image resizing). Create an Amazon Linux 2 EC2 instance (t4g.nano will do - make sure it's ARM64 architecture, not X86_64). SSH into it ...

Compiling sharp for x86_64 architecture To use Sharp for Node.js properly, we need to compile it on an x86_64 Linux server. Create a Node.js AWS Lightsail instance ($3.5 tier will do the job), then run the following: mkdir sharpfolder cd sharpfolder npm i ...

Replace values in "AllowedOrigins" with your website domain. This will allow fonts to be loaded via the CDN. This policy only needs to be applied to the public bucket containing static library assets (i.e. FontAwesome). Example CORS policy: [     {       ...

For public and protected buckets, add a lifecycle rule: - Filter with prefix "tmpuploads/"- Expire objects 1 day after upload (deletes them permanently)

Homepage https://bunny.net/cdn/ What is it? A CDN provider (Content Delivery Network). CDNs are used by most websites to make serving static content, such as images or videos, faster than delivering them directly from a webserver. A CDN has many servers ac...

Homepage https://www.bookstackapp.com/  What is it? Open-source software used for creating nice documentation servers. Why did we choose it? It's open-source, easy to self-host, and does the job without being overly complex. What do we use it for? This ...

Homepage https://jquery.com/  What is it? An old, reliable JavaScript library for making Javascript coding easier. Still in use in many websites, but usually developers prefer more modern tools now. Why did we choose it? Largely because I am an ancient fo...

Homepage https://www.tiny.cloud/ What is it? An open-source rich text editor, allowing users to write fancy formatted text and other content (which normally is a nightmare to do in HTML without e.g. developer knowledge). A lot of companies use TinyMCE's cl...

Homepage https://github.com/twitter/twemoji What is it? An open-source emoji library, containing the emoji assets that are used for Twitter. What do we use it for? We use this in conjunction with TinyMCE; instead of using TinyMCE's default emojis, where i...

Homepage https://atomiks.github.io/tippyjs/ What is it? An open-source library for creating tooltips on web pages in a nice neat fashion. Why did we choose it? It's well maintained, open source, and gives a very nice appearance. Trying to do tooltips manu...

Homepage https://fontawesome.com/ What is it? A huge library of icons and emojis, designed to render properly on any webpage in a huge variety of sizes, with or without properties such as animations. It can be hosted via their CDNs or self-hosted. Why did ...