AWS Elastic IP is a static, public IPv4 address that you can allocate and associate with your AWS resources, such as Amazon EC2 instances and Network Interface. It provides a persistent public IP address that remains associated with your resources even if they are stopped or restarted. Transferring an AWS Elastic IP address to another … Read more
Amazon lightsail instances do not allow ssh root access by default. You have to log in as user “ubuntu” or “ec2-user”, then use the command “sudo” to become user root. This is done for security. There are some circumstances where you need to enable direct SSH login to lightsail server. How to enable root ssh … Read more
I have an old Bitnami WordPress server on the Amazon Lightsail server. Bitnami does not support upgrading the PHP version. The recommended solution is to create a new bitnami WordPress instance and migrate the website to the new lightsail instance. Since this server had many websites configured, I do not want to migrate the websites … Read more
By default Amazon EC2 only allow port 22 (SSH) on Linux servers and port 3389 (RDP) on Windows Instances. All other ports are closed for security reasons. Depending on your use case, you may need to open ports on the security group to allow connection to applications you run on the EC2 instance. Log in … Read more
To export DNS Records for a domain, you can use AWS CLI. First, you need to make an Access key to use with AWS CLI. To configure AWS CLI, run the command aws configure You need to enter “Access Key ID:” and “Secret Access Key”. You can generate these in the AWS console by clicking … Read more