For obvious security reasons, phpMyAdmin can only be accessed via the local system, through 127.0.0.1. However, when we are setting up a new stack, we need to access the database, and accessing the MySql database via the console isn’t always the most time-saving way of doing it. Thankfully, we can connect to a remote MySql …
How to access phpMyAdmin for Amazon EC2 / Lightsail LAMP stack? Read More »
For every Laravel project I do, probably one of the first things as part of giving a custom look and feel to the laravel project that I do is to customize the error pages of the website in Laravel. So, this post is going to be a quick guide about how to create a custom …
After Laravel made changes to its default database character set, the specified key was too long issue was supposed to have been taken care of. However, today as I was creating a new Laravel application, to my surprise, I again came across this error. I ran across this error when I was trying to run …
Over time, I have slowly started to move from shared hosting to self-managed servers like Digital Ocean and AWS, for all of my websites. Even to most of my clients, I now recommend a dedicated hosting over shared hosting if they are going for an AMC with me for my web development services. My personal …
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Last week I migrated one of my websites from AWS EC2 Instance to Amazon Lightsail, primarily to optimize the expenses of that website. This week again, I set-up a new LAMP stack on an EC2 instance for another website of mine, an online doctor appointment booking website. I thought of writing about how to install …
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In my previous post, I shared the website migration process from an Amazon EC2 Instance to a Lightsail instance. In that post I assumed that you already know how to update your DNS records to point to Lightsail instance, later on, I thought it would be a good idea to post a small guide about …
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If you are reading this, you already know what an Amazon EC2 server is and what is Amazon Lightsail. Or at-least, you have some idea about the same. So, I will not talk anything about the difference between these two and would rather, dive straight to why I did what I did. Why I decided …
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