{"id":29,"date":"2022-06-25T04:12:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T04:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raehaltech.com\/?p=29"},"modified":"2022-06-25T04:33:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T04:33:15","slug":"back-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raehaltech.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/25\/back-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Back Online"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After a bit of down time I have started to get my website back online. I still need to sort out a theme and create some posts but the technical work is done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My issues started because I had used a website host that gives you a free domain name when you sign up to host your website on their system. I hosted my site on their system for a while but the editor was not very good. I couldn\u2019t make a website that I wanted. I moved my website to another host. This worked fine for a while but the original company decided you had have domain name and host services with them together or you had to move from their services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I moved my DNS to a new company that primarily provides DNS services to lock down my domain names. There was a bit of back and forth with tech support at the old provider and the new provider to get the process completed. It was mostly making sure I really was who owned the domain names. I didn\u2019t want to get caught in a similar situation so I didn\u2019t publish a new website right away. After some testing I decided to go in a bit of a different direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am not using a standard hosting provider. I decided to build my own server in Google\u2019s cloud (after some testing of various options) and set up my own LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) server. I have used Linux for a lot of various projects so there is no administration issues that I anticipate and I am familiar with MySQL, Apache, and PHP. Google offers several distributions of Linux and I ended up using Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS. I am most familiar with Debian varieties of Linux so I wanted to stay in that family. I use Linux Mint and Kbuntu on a couple of my personal computers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are a lot of guides online that explain how to do this but I had to configure my LAMP server manually. Normally you can install a package called \u201ctasksel<\/em>\u201d and then use that install a \u201clamp-server\u201d package. tasksel<\/em> just saves time by combining a lot of commands into an easy script. The option seems to be missing from tasksel<\/em> in the Google Linux image. tasksel<\/em> did give me a webserver option, as pictured below, but I am not sure what that would have done. Normally LAMP Server is a listed option in the list when you don\u2019t use the command line. tasksel<\/em> did install PHP plus some other packages when I used the traditional command but MySQL and Apache were missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After getting the packages installed I was able to configure everything. Ultimately I am using Apache 2.x, MySQL 8.x, and PHP 8.1. Even without the use of tasksel <\/em>the manual integration was so easy as I just need to install a few packages using these two commands. I am not sure I will use all the extra php modules but the apache mod and mysqli packages are a must.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • sudo apt install libapache2-mod-php<\/li>
  • sudo apt install php-{curl,intl,zip,soap,xml,gd,mbstring,bcmath,common,mysqli}<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    I also need a way to transfer files to and from the webserver so I added the package vsftpd<\/strong>. I configured the software on Ubuntu and made sure it required SSL. This process required creating a local user to log into the FTP server and making an SSL certificate for the requests. Google Cloud doesn\u2019t allow user\/password sign in by default, everything is done with SSH keys. Once the host was ready I added firewall rules in the Google Cloud Dashboard under the VPC network area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Everything is configured and working and that\u2019s where this post comes in. This will be the first addition to the new website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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