I will walk you through installing and setting up PhpMyAdmin tool on the OpenLiteSpeed server. This is a must have tool that will help you in managing databases that run your website. In addition to setting it up, I will also walk you through securing the phpMyAdmin so that it isn’t accessible to the open …
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In this video tutorial I will show you 5 tools that will help you manage your server and website.Some of these tools are not specific to Lightsail so they should work on any VPS or dedicated server you may have however I’ve only tried these on Lightsail. Also note that most of these tools are …
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In this tutorial we will take a look at the WP CLI, the WordPress Command Line Interface. Using this tool you can perform many functions to manage WordPress; Normally you would use the WP admin or by adding various plugins to do the same things. This is primarily for users to like to work in …
In this video I will show you how to fix file and folder permission issues on your Lightsail WordPress install. If you manage a WordPress site using the Bitnami blueprint in Lightsail, you may run into permission errors. These errors are mostly in two areas:1. If you are trying to update a file using SFTP …
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In this video I will show you how to increase the PHP File Upload limit so that you can upload files larger than the default setting that came with your installation. This is a common issue when setting up WordPress on your own and might be less of an issue if you are on a …
In this video I will show you the basic commands necessary to edit files using the VI Editor. That is the editor that I use in most of my tutorials and there have been questions around how I performed some of the steps pertaining to updating files. Many times I don’t talk about the exact …
Hey Everyone, welcome back to another video tutorial on AWS lightsail hosting and wordpress tips. Today I’ll show you 5 tips for a basic configuraitons after installling a blank instance of WordPress. These are the first items I configure on WordPress and are important towards making your site secure and reliable and I recommend them …
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These are the 5 tools that I have in my toolset to go to when I run into issues with web hosting configurations, or issues dealing with Custom Domain DNS record updates and propagation. I use these for website development and debugging as well. So I thought I’d share these debugging tools with you as …
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In this video we walkthrough setting up Lightsail Alarm Notifications. This is a feature that should notify you by SMS or Email when your instances are experiencing spikes in usage. I would recommend using an external monitoring service in addition to this service as I don’t believe it covers all outage scenarios currently. But it …
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I’m doing this video based on a user suggestion. In some past tutorials on this channel we’ve walked through setting up a remote database service. Once using the Lightsail Database Service and another video on using the Amazon RDS service. In both the videos we move the WordPress database from the locally installed MySQL to …
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