MediaWiki® powered by Symetricore

The following are the usernames and access information for MediaWiki powered by Symetricore  on the AWS Marketplace. SSH login user Username: ubuntu No password is used. You should connect to your instance using the public IP address and your public key ssh -i mykey.pem ubuntu@public-ip MediaWiki MediaWiki administrator account. username: admin password: aws-instance-id The instance id is found in the AWS console under in the “Description” tab. It is formatted like this:…

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Configure Automatic Updates Ubuntu 18.04LTS

Contents1 Configure Automatic Updates Ubuntu 18.04LTS1.1 Configure unattended-upgrades1.2  Enable automatic updates2 Notifications (Optional)3 Checking it all works Configure Automatic Updates Ubuntu 18.04LTS We suggest that you enable automatic updates for your AMI instance. At the least you should enable security updates. To get started install the unattended upgrades package sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install unattended-upgrades Configure unattended-upgrades sudo nano /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades adjust the following to fit your needs. The configuration below will install  updates and…

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Doing things as root

Sometimes you need to do actions as root to configure things for your AMI. SSH login user Firstly login as as the regular user for your AMI instance. Username: ubuntu or Username: centos No password is used. You should connect to your instance using the public IP address and your public key ssh -i mykey.pem ubuntu@public-ip or ssh -i mykey.pem centos@public-ip Becoming a super user There is no root login…

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Fixing Permalink 404 errors

If you decide you want to change the default permalink in WordPress you might encounter 404 errors getting to your posts and pages. This guide is intended help you though the process. Contents1 Select your Permalink style2 Check the .htaccess file3 Enable Modrewrite4 Enable the use of .htaccess5 Restart Apache26 More Information Select your Permalink style Select your permalink style from the menu after logging into the wp-admin console. No doubt…

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Enable SNMP for Cacti (Centos 7)

Monitoring of servers is very important in any IT environment. It’s important to know when a device is down before people start calling you or that a hard drive is full before the operating system stops  responding. It allows you as a system admin to be proactive about the state of your network. Cacti needs SNMP to be up and running to be able to monitor a server. The following describes the…

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WordPress® powered by Symetricore (Plus Edition)

The following are the usernames and access information for WordPress powered by Symetricore (Plus Edition) on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace. This applies to version 4.6.x of WordPress on Centos 7. SSH login user Username: centos No password is used. You should connect to your instance using the public IP address and your public key ssh -i mykey.pem centos@public-ip WordPress Access to WordPress is via a web browser at…

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Unattended upgrades (Centos 7)

Configure Automatic Updates Centos 7 We suggest that you enable automatic updates for your AMI instance. At the least you should enable security updates.  On CentOS servers, we can enable the automatic download and installation of security updates using the yum-cron package.  To get started install the unattended upgrades package Install the  yum-cron package. # Install yum-cron sudo yum install yum-cron Edit the yum-cron.conf file sudo nano /etc/yum/yum-cron.conf Edit the file with the following #Install…

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How to install SSL certificates (Centos)

This guide is for Symetricore products available in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) marketplace that come preconfigured with self-signed SSL certificates. This should be in the documentation for the product. A simple test of whether this is the type of product can be made by the way you access the product. If you are using web access that is something like http://a.b.c.d then you are not using SSL. The you…

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Plone® powered by Symetricore

The following are some tips on how to use your Plone 5.0.4 AMI powered by Symetricore on the AWS Marketplace. SSH login user Username: centos No password is used. You should connect to your instance using the public IP address and your public key. ssh -i mykey.pem centos@public-ip Initial Launch It will take a while (up to 5 minutes) for the installation process to complete after launching for the first time from…

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