Monthly Archives: May 2014

Increase Amazon EBS Volume of a Linux EC2 instance

Increasing the size of a EBS volume is sadly not as easy as tweaking a value. Amazon AWS does not support changing the Volume size on the fly. But there are ways to increase the size. Continue reading

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Access SSH server without direct connection from the internet

When two servers are connected to each other but only one server has access to the internet, it is always uncomfortable to connect to the server without internet connection. Specially when files need to be copied to the server without direct internet connection. There is a way to make it more comfortable to connect via ssh. Continue reading

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PHP Unable to load library module.so

If you see in the Apache error_log log-file an error like “Unable to load dynamic library /usr/lib/php/modules/module.so”, you probably have CentOS 6.4 which has a configuration issue in the mcrypt configuration file. Continue reading

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