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This website is for documenting my experiments with different combinations of technology stacks. These are step-by-step articles so that anyone can follow through and re-create the projects that I have made.

So far I have covered a few topics about Ruby on Rails, React, and web application hosting options. Hosting topics include AWS, Heroku, Nginx and Apache. There are also tutorials for setting up WordPress websites and articles that walk through web application basics. Links to these tutorial series can be found on the menu at the top of the page.

5. Deploying WordPress To Heroku

January 28, 2019 February 13, 2019

Intro In this article, we will deploy our WordPress website onto Heroku, a web application hosting service. We are using Heroku because it has a free plan, but it does come with a couple of drawbacks. We will also go over the limitations of this in this article. Heroku Let’s …

Wordpress Free Hosting Workaround | Wordpress Hosting Options

4. Setting Up The Git Repository

January 28, 2019 February 13, 2019

Intro This article will walk through how to set up our Git repository to store our code. The repository will be used by Heroku for live deployment on a free hosting environment. We will also go over environment variables and how they are important to consider when using third party …

Wordpress Free Hosting Workaround | Wordpress Hosting Options

3. WordPress Configurations And Preparation

January 28, 2019 February 13, 2019

Intro In this article, we go over some useful plugins that will help with your WordPress development. We will also go over some configuration changes to help resolve some common issues we might encounter later on. Plugins WP2Static – We will be converting our website to a static website for …

Installing Wordpress | Wordpress Free Hosting Workaround

2. Installing And Configuring WordPress (LAMP)

January 13, 2019 February 13, 2019

Intro In this article, we will install WordPress as fast as we can. We will be using the LAMP environment we just setup in the previous article. This is on Ubuntu 18.04 and the WordPress version we are using will be 5.0.2. If have not set this up yet, feel …

Installing Wordpress | Wordpress Free Hosting Workaround

1. Installing LAMP Stack For WordPress

January 13, 2019 February 13, 2019

Intro In this article, we will begin with installing the LAMP stack on a Ubuntu 18.04 server. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Linux is the operating system, Apache is the web server for the application, MySQL is the database, and PHP is the programming language. To follow …

Installing Wordpress | Wordpress Free Hosting Workaround

8. Nginx and Let’s Encrypt (SSL)

December 31, 2018 February 13, 2019

Intro If you have setup your Nginx server on Ubuntu 18.04 then this article will walk you through how to add an SSL certificate using Let’s Encrypt to your website so that it uses https instead of http. If you chose to use Heroku, then you can skip this article. …

Rails and React To Production (Nginx) | Ruby on Rails, Nginx and Puma

7. Rails on Nginx, Puma, and PostgreSQL

December 31, 2018 February 13, 2019

Intro In this article, we will deploy our Ruby on Rails application on a Ubuntu 18.04 server with Nginx (web server) and Puma (application server). We will also use PostgreSQL as our database and Rbenv to help us store sensitive information. Rbenv helps us store sensitive information (such as database …

Rails and React To Production (Nginx) | Ruby on Rails, Nginx and Puma

6. Ruby on Rails Hosting Options

December 31, 2018 February 13, 2019

Intro If you have followed through the Ruby on Rails tutorial in the previous posts, then you should have a basic Ruby on Rails web application on your local machine. The next step would be to move this onto a Production level web server so that the public can access …

Rails and React To Production (Nginx) | Ruby on Rails, Nginx and Puma