Day 21

Chatter

Holy shit I am distracted today.

-Thinking about nearly being in a fight with a redneck.

-The whole Kris fiasco

-Yvette

-Sarah (and all kinds of things associated with this)

-Luke Bryan concert awesomness

-Joel

-I'm sure I can spit out half a dozen more.

This is why Friday nights are party nights and Saturday nights we take it easy / don't drink alcohol.

Still, last night was pretty crazy.

So working despite the challenges is my path to victory.  TODAY this is SUPER IMPORTANT, as I am in a DEEP HOLE at the moment.  Next week needs today to be strong, and I got Sarah call in an hour and parents at 4.  Shall I begin?

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Plan & Log

10 - 11 Power hour and meditation

11 - 12 Connect to server, try to get a generic wordpress home page instead of the generic .html page on there.

12 - 12:30 / 1, break, talk to Sarah and eat something.

12:30 / 1 - 2 complete wordpress implementation or if done figure next step.

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10 - 12:45 given work up to 12:15 and today's lunch allowance I am giving 30 minutes.

LOG-OUT: 12:45 - 1:30 ... distracted / trolled / post lunch unfocused.

LOG-BACK-IN 1:30 - 3:45... 5 hours on the nose!

5 hours = PASS :)

GOGOGO

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Work

Well this is gold... go down to "install wordpress" and just copypasta.  Also it basically shows you where to find it, so now I just need to go looking for it :)

GOOGLE EVERYTHING.  God, I just asked "how do i tell if wordpress is installed on ec2" and BAM "How to install wordpress on ec2".  Perfect.

http://coenraets.org/blog/2012/01/setting-up-wordpress-on-amazon-ec2-in-5-minutes/

First I have to connect of course... instead of doing the whole firefox thing I notice that for future benefits it may be best to use what appears to be the #1 way Windows users connect to an Amazon Linux Server Instance... using "PuTTY"

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/putty.html

• Checked this first to make sure i had permission to access via SSH... wow... looks like ANYONE can.. not sure if I should be worried about that, Amazon said Caution to that (IP set to 0.0.0.0/0) but im using a private key so not too worried about it right now.
  http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/authorizing-access-to-an-instance.html

NICE!!! I am connected via SSH.  I AM BACK IN!!!

"

Transferring Files to Your Linux Instance Using the PuTTY Secure Copy Client

The PuTTY Secure Copy client (PSCP) is a command-line tool that you can use to transfer files between your Windows computer and your Linux instance. If you prefer a graphical user interface (GUI), you can use an open source GUI tool named WinSCP. For more information, see Transferring Files to Your Linux Instance Using WinSCP."

Why, yes, Amazon.  I WOULD prefer a graphical user interface, that can totally let me drag and drop and link windows directories with my Unix directories.  Fuck yes, I would like that.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/putty.html#Transfer_WinSCP

Found wordpress... yes... everything IS installed and I know how to find it now.

It is here: var/www/html/wordpress

However, it is running VERY slow and is clearly broken.  I'm guessing I broke it last time possibly when I tried running the plugin.

I wonder if it's possible that Apache Web Server, PHP, MySQL, or Wordpress itself is not installed correctly?

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Elastic IP associated with Instance, to help link up the domain to it later, per the end of the guide I was reading.

You can now connect to the site via: 52.11.177.228

IMPORTANT!  You need to use this address when SSH'ing or anything else.  I saved the changes.

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I DO NOT HAVE PERMISSION TO DO ANYTHING ON THE SERVER OTHER THAN IN MY OWN USER FOLDER.

Obviously, this is a problem -- it's my server, I should be able to touch anything and everything, right?

So this implies that the problem originally with the FTP / plugin was likely security.  Just cuz it can FTP stuff over doesn't mean it can add, delete, or edit anything in the var/www/html/wordpress directory.  

The next step is getting security to let me in.

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IAM review from Day 8's security concerns over plugin.

IAM is not currently the problem with me getting full access to my server; It is a way to give other users, groups, and programs (like your wordpress plugin) the permissions they need.

It's more a solution for a large company... might help me get the plugin in.

So, now what?  Do I dig around in security features?

Talked to Dad... says it's cuz im a user not an admin.  

Recommended I get a windows server.  I think he's concerned that i am tied down in Unix confusion but that's really not the case.  Long term he explains you can do anything with a windows server and that makes sense but I just want a wordpress blog.

So starting tomorrow i need to figure out how to get admin privleges... it might have to do with the "root" user or something, maybe IAM can do it.