Convert a putty .ppk key to an Amazon .pem file on Mac

$ brew install putty

$ puttygen key.ppk -O private-openssh -o key.pem

Or,

$ openssl x509 -in certificatename.cer -outform PEM -out certificatename.pem

Migrate Linux server to AWS EC2

Visit: AWS Replication Agent installation 

https://us-west-2.console.aws.amazon.com/mgn/home?region=us-west-2#/sourceServers/addServers

wget -O ./aws-replication-installer-init.py https://aws-application-migration-service-us-west-2.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/latest/linux/aws-replication-installer-init.py

sudo python3 aws-replication-installer-init.py --region us-west-2

Reinstall MySQL in virtualmin

sudo apt purge mysql-server mysql-client mysql-common
sudo apt autoremove

sudo mv -iv /var/lib/mysql /var/tmp/mysql-backup

sudo rm -rf /var/lib/mysql*

Then goto webmin dashboard>Server>MySQL Database Server>Install

PHP Laravel Artisan commands

 php artisan config:clear

 php artisan config:cache

 php artisan route:clear

 php artisan view:clear

 php artisan view:cache

 php artisan event:clear

 php artisan event:cache

 php artisan cache:clear

 php artisan optimize:clear

How to change the default filename when using mPDF

$payStub=new mPDF();

$payStub->SetTitle('My title');
$payStub->WriteHTML($pcTableRows);
$payStub->Output('yourFileName.pdf', 'I');

1. 'D': download the PDF file
2. 'I': serves in-line to the browser
3. 'S': returns the PDF document as a string
4. 'F': save as file $file_out

Auto deployment from github to server using FTP

 Step-1: Login the github the go to the project and click on setteings and add FTP Password under Security->Secrets. Then click New repository secret and name

Step - 2:Click Actions menu of repository and create the yml file as follows:

Click on Create a new worklow> set up a workflow yourself

.github/workflows/main.yml

Step - 3: Then add the following code to yml file and save.

on: push
name: 🚀 Deploy website on push
jobs:
web-deploy:
name: 🎉 Deploy
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: 🚚 Get latest code
uses: actions/checkout@v2

- name: 📂 Sync files
uses: SamKirkland/FTP-Deploy-Action@4.3.2
with:
server: ourdomain.com/IP
username: username@yourdomain.com //or IP
password: ${{ secrets.FTP_PASSWORD }}
# server-dir: /home/dfaserghx/public_html/

How to delete all commit history in GitHub & repush to main?

Create a new Branch:

git checkout --orphan latest_branch

Add your all the files:

git add .

Save the changes with commit:

git commit -m "commit message"

Delete Main Branch:

git branch -D main

Rename latest_branch to main:

git branch -m main

Force update the repo:

git push -f origin main