Lifted Meds

March 24, 2018 I turn 30 years old.

By then I REALLY shouldn't need these any more.  That's kind of the "you've passed by now, or you've failed" point of this Personal Renaissance.

At that point it's time to re-evaluate life choices and what you're doing with your life.  And one of those choices is this medication.

Sean Walker says you'll be dead in 20 years if you continue to take it.

Like smoking, 2-3 years of this is really all the body should have to take.  This is serious.  Take it seriously, and don't forget.

Here we go...

Day 24

Per my word, I made a pre-determined choice to work LEAF instead of Roars today.  Leaving the office at 10pm so yeah... 'twas necessary.

Day 23 (yesterday)

Pre-determined choice to get Adderall.

5-630 in dr's office... calling that ROARS hours... since it's for the cause.

Talked to Sarah last night and she explained she was diagnosed with ADHD as a kid and it really helped her focus.  Said she felt like more like a normal person, able to do things, etc... all the right stuff.

Day 22

My mind is playing around.

This is why I need to sleep more.

It would be so great if I'd just stop waking up at 2am every morning for no reason.  Especially if it didn't lead to mindless chatter about nothing at all that I can't seem to even get in the ball park of having any control over.

So there's the trolls and excuses... let's get started here.

CLOCK: 5:20p - 5:35p ; 6:35p - ...

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Ok, I found it:

http://serverfault.com/questions/618328/aws-ec2-user-permission-denied

That's what this whole SUDO thing is about.

F@#* I am so tired... that took forever.  I don't even know, I worked 15 min, had to take a shit, came back and got distracted watching comedy for almost an hour.  Log updated.

GOOGLA -- winscp how to sudo

Use the SFTP protocol. Test connecting withWINSCP using the SFTP protocol using the bitnami (low priviledge user) and your private key. On the Advanced tab of the WINSCPspecify the sudo -s command to run the server as su.Jan 28, 2014

How to connect as root using WINSCP | Dr James Bayley

blog.jamesbayley.com/2014/01/28/how-to-connect-as-root-using-winscp/

Well.. didn't work.  Guessing it has something to do with me now knowing my own goddamn EC User password.

It also occurs to me that I no understand basiks like "SFTP" "Protocol" "bitnami"

So I tried it in PuTTY and "sudo vi test.html" WORKED!!!

http://52.11.177.228/test.html

I DIDZ IT

Well I really, really need sleep, and as I am hitting my hour now, I am setting some goals for tmw:

1. Figure out who to get WINSCP hooked up with Sudo so I can have full perms (prob just figure out my password.)
2. Figure out how all this translates to me reinstalling wordpress
3. WIN

1 Hour = pass... although I think it was @ size 2.5... but not going to count it against myself this time.  The fact that I showed up alone is worth letting me have the 4 today.

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.

Days 17 & 18 Down

Complete failure on ROARS side of things... at least I pulled a 6.5 size out of my hat for the first hour or so at LEAF on wednesday... and yet still managed to get size down to 4.25 and fail utterly.

But it shows I am on the right track with catch & replace, then 1up, then stack, then keep it going.  That tool is working amazingly.  And I am on the right track with the "stone building" idea as well.

Day 19 is Friday & Day 20 is Saturday, so no probs there... now to begin day 21.

Day 16

Staying here at LEAF until at least 4:30, so maybe an hour of ROARS today.

I am saying that it's THAT important that I clean up these CB's instead of working on ROARS... cuz it's actually worse than I thought.