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MayI happened to have an interesting conversation with an individual who spoke a lot about the management of his business and some of the problems he was facing. A short time later, I called him suggesting a cloud-based system I had deployed previously that I believed would significantly help alleviate many of his frustrations. Below is a […]
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DecDeployment 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[…]
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NovProduction 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[…]
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NovProduction 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[…]
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NovProduction 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,[…]
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NovThis tutorial will install WordPress on a local development server using Ubuntu 14.04 and Vagrant. This process is also applicable to Ubuntu 16.04. This step assumes you have already followed these steps: How to Install VirtualBox, Vagrant and Ubuntu for Local Development How to Install LAMP stack on Ubuntu 1. Create a new database If you followed[…]
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NovLocal Development Environment Setup, Part 2 In Part 2 of our local development environment setup, we will install the LAMP stack. Linux (Ubuntu), Apache (web server), MySQL (database), Php (scripting language) This tutorial assumes you have already installed Ubuntu. If not, click here. 1. Update Ubuntu From Git command line: $ vagrant up $ vagrant ssh $[…]
