Production server environment setup, part 1. This tutorial will install Ubuntu 16.04 on a DigitalOcean droplet. If you don’t have an account already, sign up to DigitalOcean using this link which will give you a $10 credit (2 months FREE using a $5/mo droplet!) which also helps support this site. 1. Once logged in to your account, […]
Production server environment setup, part 2. This tutorial will guide you through the initial steps to take once you have created a new Ubuntu 16.04 instance (DigitalOcean droplet). 1. Login to your server using Git (or Putty) replacing ‘SERVER_IP_ADDRESS’ with your DigitalOcean IP address: $ ssh root@SERVER_IP_ADDRESS or from Putty by entering username/password 2. Add new user[…]
Production server environment setup, part 3. This tutorial will guide you through the initial steps to take once you have created a new Ubuntu 16.04 instance (DigitalOcean droplet). This tutorial sets up a single WordPress installation on a server with the option of adding more websites and domain names later. This tutorial assumes you have: 1. Created[…]
Deployment In this tutorial, I will guide you through the process of using the WordPress plugin Duplicator to migrate/move a development site to a live production server. There are many ways that this can be done with WordPress. 1. One way would be to upload all of our local files to the production server and then simply[…]