Comment by DOOManiac on Amazon Linux: Can't log background task output?
This worked as well as Ronald's echo, so I guess it's a PHP configuration error. Now to find out what it could be...
View ArticleComment by DOOManiac on How to troubleshoot slow performance on AWS EC2/RDS?
Sorry, forgot to add: EC2 instance is Amazon Linux w/ Apache/PHP/Memcached (although we just started using Memcached and only have it on 2 or 3 places so far)
View ArticleComment by DOOManiac on Amazon RDS Instances: db.m1.large vs db.m3.large
Looking at this site, ec2instances.info/?filter=.large, it looks like the new m3.large instances only support 32GB? Or maybe that's only for EC2 non-EBS instances? Also, it doesn't look like m3.Large...
View ArticleComment by DOOManiac on Amazon RDS Instances: db.m1.large vs db.m3.large
I'm currently not using PIOPS at all. (Should I be?) In this case, I'm guessing it doesn't matter if the instance type is not PIOPS-optimized, right?
View ArticleComment by DOOManiac on Amazon: How do I know if I need Provisioned IOPS?
EC2 doesn't have a secondary volume. So for RDS, about what amount of IOPS do I need? (And how do I arrive at that figure on my own for future reference?) Thanks.
View ArticleComment by DOOManiac on AWS: Should my EC2 and RDS instances be in the same...
So, don't worry about it then?
View ArticleComment by DOOManiac on Can you configure AWS Console for your time zone?
Haha, you're right! Whoops.
View ArticleComment by DOOManiac on Firefox users get sec_error_bad_signature over HTTPS
I'm aware that SHA-1 is obsolete, and we are working on getting a new one; but is this why Firefox is having problems? If so why would it work just fine for all other Firefox users? And if so, you...
View ArticleComment by DOOManiac on MySQL PHP configuration does not allow LOAD DATA...
This is needed for Debian as well. Just found out the hard way after moving from CentOS...
View ArticleComment by DOOManiac on How to figure out which EC2 instance an EBS Volume...
Without specifically creating a CloudTrail for the resource, it seems that the service only logs the last 7 days for everything else. Still, this is a great tip!
View ArticleComment by DOOManiac on RDS MySQL Instance has plumetting free space, then...
Yes, it only has one error that we've had for awhile: 2019-03-21T14:50:02.888051Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: page_cleaner: 1000ms intended loop took 4502ms. The settings might not be optimal. (flushed=200 and...
View ArticleApache over-caching JS/CSS/images
We have a problem with JS and CSS files being cached for far too long by the browser. We do frequent development, and whenever we push out a change it breaks for some users who have the old version...
View ArticleAmazon Linux: Can't log background task output?
We recently moved to AWS EC2 instances w/ the Amazon Linux distro.On our old servers (RH Enterprise), we've been able to run a command in the background (&) and also redirect the output to a log...
View ArticleAmazon Linux, PHP 5.5: php.ini ignored
On our Amazon EC2 instance, I uninstalled PHP5.3 (yum remove php) and installed PHP 5.5, which also bundled in Apache 2.4 (yum install php54).For some reason, my php.ini file is no longer being read....
View ArticleAnswer by DOOManiac for How to troubleshoot slow performance on AWS EC2/RDS?
Finally tracked down the cause of our problems. Apache was misconfigured to have a Keep Alive timeout for 30 seconds. That combined with an overly aggressive AJAX script was causing the site to hang...
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Amazon: How do I know if I need Provisioned IOPS?
We recently moved to Amazon Web Servers and are still learning our way around. Our EC2 Web instance and our RDS MySQL instance (right now we only have 1 of each) seem to be chugging along okay. But I...
View ArticleWhy is my Apache in an infinite redirection loop?
We currently have an internal site set up for IT at it.example.com, which hosts a single Redmine site.I want to set up Apache so that if a user goes to kb.example.com it redirects them to...
View ArticleAnswer by DOOManiac for Firefox users get sec_error_bad_signature over HTTPS
Deleting the cert8.db file as originally suggested here ended up being a hit-or-miss fix to the problem. For some users it worked swimmingly; others it did nothing at all. In fact, for some users even...
View ArticleSSLCertificateChainFile Deprecation Warning on Apache 2.4.8+
We have an SSL Certificate for our website from Network Solutions. After upgrading Apache/OpenSSL to version 2.4.9, I now get the following warning when starting HTTPD:AH02559: The...
View ArticleHow to figure out which EC2 instance an EBS Volume went with?
I discovered a few unattached, mystery EBS volumes in my AWS Console. I suspect these are leftovers from some test EC2 instances I had that I may have not noticed were NOT set to delete the volume upon...
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