Ankur K ankurk91

Install CloudWatch Agent on AWS EC2

Install CloudWatch Agent

Download the cloudwatch agent from the AWS Official Docs according to your platform.

Assuming that you are running Ubuntu with x86_64 architecture on your EC2

DNSmasq wildcard on Ubuntu 18/20

Install dnsmasq

sudo apt install -y dnsmasq
sudo apt install -y resolvconf

💡 The dnsmasq service will fail to start, you can ignore those errors for time being
Disable the default systemd-resolved service

PostgreSQL on Ubuntu

⚠️ I would rather recommend to install PostgreSQL inside docker.

Add PPA Source

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt $(lsb_release -cs)-pgdg main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list'
wget --quiet -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update

Laravel Horizon, redis-server, supervisord on Ubuntu 20/22/24 server

Laravel 10+, Horizon 5.x, Redis/Valkey 7+

Prepare application

Install and configure Laravel Horizon as instructed in docs
Make sure you can access the Horizon dashboard like - http://yourapp.com/horizon
For now; it should show status as inactive on horizon dashboard

Install redis-server

elementaryOS Apps and Configs

⚠️ No longer maintained! ⚠️

This guide has been updated for elementaryOS v5.0+.

Enbale PPA support

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install software-properties-common

macOS Apps

⚠️ No longer maintained! ⚠️

Homebrew

# Install x-code command line tools 
xcode-select --install

# Install homebrew itself

Mac OS : Show your git branch name on your bash terminal

⚠️ Does not work in zsh terminal

Add these lines in your ~/.bash_profile file

# Show current git branch name
parse_git_branch() {
     git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/ (\1)/'
}

	server {
	listen 80;
	listen [::]:80;
	server_name example.com;
	root /home/user/example.com/public;

	add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
	add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff";

	index index.php;

	services:
	postgres17:
	image: 'public.ecr.aws/docker/library/postgres:17-alpine'
	container_name: postgres-17
	restart: unless-stopped
	ports:
	- "${FORWARD_PGSQL_PORT:-5432}:5432"
	volumes:
	- pg-17-data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
	healthcheck:

	#!/bin/bash
	set -euo pipefail
	IFS=$'\n\t'

	# Run this script without sudo
	# bash script_name.sh

	INSTALL_TMP_DIR=~/phpstorm-tmp

	mkdir -p $INSTALL_TMP_DIR