Carey Dayrit

Installing WP Rocket on Pantheon Platform

Some people do find a hard time installing WP Rocket on Pantheon since it creates files on a write-protect folder set by Pantheon Platform.

The solution was to create a symlink and point to the write permitted folder which is the wp-content/uploads folder.

Please take note that this step is not recommended to be used on any SFTP app but only on the SFTP command line. Since creating symlinks over SFTP have inconsistencies between clients. The process below was tested using MacBook Pro (Mojave), Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS, and Windows 10 (Release 1909)

Create a folder cache and wp-rocket-config on wp-content/uploads folder on DEV first (later would be TEST and LIVE).

Remove the wp-content/cache folder. If there is a wp-content/wp-rocket-config folder, remove it also.
Create a symlink via the terminal command line.

Note: Be sure that you are in the wp-content folder.

$ ln -s ./uploads/cache cache
$ ln -s ./uploads/wp-rocket-config wp-rocket-config

Commit and push the symlink via git.
Create the folder cache and wp-rocket-config in wp-content/uploads for TEST and LIVE.
Commit and deploy code to TEST and LIVE.
Activate the WP-Rocket plugin and apply the license code.

Hopefully, this will help users install the WP-Rocket Plugin on the Pantheon Platform.

Happy Coding.

April 21, 2020 by Carey Pantheon Wordpress 0

Installing Terminus on Windows using WSL 2

What is WSL? It stands for Windows Sub System for Linux. A Linux-compatible sub-system without having a need for a virtual machine. Though not entirely compatible that would run all the Linux commands and features it is good enough to install Terminus, the command-line tool from Pantheon.io.

A note of warning, since this instruction would require installing WSL, there is an article from TrendMicro a security flawed attack better read this first to be aware https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/security/news/cybercrime-and-digital-threats/bashware-attack-targets-windows-system-for-linux-wsl .

If you want a secure way, head over to one of the blog posts, Installing Terminus on Windows using a Virtual Machine.

First thing first, install WSL. Open up Powershell as an administrator.

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux

Restart Windows.

After restarting go to Microsoft Store and search for “Linux”, select “Run Linux on Windows”. Pick Ubuntu and get it.

It would take a while for the installation process, you would be asked to provide a new username and password.

If you got to the Ubuntu shell, install the PHP repository

   sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

Make sure we are getting all the recently updated software to be installed.

sudo apt-get update

Here are all the necessary libraries that we need.

sudo apt-get install curl php7.4 php7.4-curl php7.4-cli php7.4-mbstring php7.4-xml git unzip

Install terminus

cd ~

mkdir terminus3

cd terminus3

curl -L https://github.com/pantheon-systems/terminus/releases/download/`curl --silent "https://api.github.com/repos/pantheon-systems/terminus/releases/latest" | perl -nle'print $& while m#"tag_name": "\K[^"]*#g'`/terminus.phar --output terminus

chmod +x terminus

sudo ln -s ~/terminus3/terminus /usr/local/bin/terminus

That’s it enjoy Terminus on Windows.

February 11, 2020 by Carey Pantheon Terminus 1

Installing Terminus on MacOS (Mojave)

This installation process needs to have Homebrew please do install it before doing the following steps. Homebrew installs the stuff you need that Apple did not.

Requirements:

Homebrew
PHP v7.3
- php-cli
- php-curl
- php-mbstring
- php-xml
Composer

Installation process

We need Homebrew to install the needed programs and libraries

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

After successfully installing Homebrew, it’s time to use ‘brew’ to install PHP

brew install [email protected]

Let’s try to download Composer, using the terminal.

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer -o composer-setup.php
php composer-setup.php --filename=composer
sudo mv composer /usr/local/bin/composer

Then we can easily install Pantheon’s CLI tool, Terminus

composer require pantheon-systems/terminus
sudo ln -s /home/username/vendor/pantheon-systems/terminus/bin/terminus  /usr/local/bin/terminus

you need to replace /home/username with the actual username of the machine.

Then let’s try to authenticate.

terminus auth:login --machine-token=‹machine-token›

That’s it, happy coding.

February 10, 2020 by Carey Pantheon Terminus 0

Installing Terminus on Ubuntu 18.04.4

The Terminus command-line tool of Pantheon.io can easily be installed on Ubuntu 18.04.4 (Bionic Beaver).

Install the dependencies and requirements, since Terminus is written in PHP scripting language, the minimum version requirement 5.6 running it on PHP v7.3 is much faster.

The PHP extensions needed are:

curl
cli
mbstring
xml

PHP v7.3

sudo -A add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php -y;
sudo apt-get update

Dependencies and Requirements

sudo apt-get install curl php7.3 php7.3-curl php7.3-cli php7.3-mbstring php7.3-xml git unzip -y

Composer (skip if the machine in use has a prior composer installed.)

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer -o composer-setup.php
php composer-setup.php --filename=composer
sudo mv composer /usr/local/bin/composer

Install Terminus via Composer

composer require pantheon-systems/terminus

Then in order that terminus can be executed on all folders, create a symlink that can be accessed.

sudo ln -s /home/vagrant/vendor/pantheon-systems/terminus/bin/terminus  /usr/local/bin/terminus

Test that it is properly installed

terminus -v

Authenticate

terminus auth:login --machine-token=‹machine-token›

February 8, 2020 by Carey Pantheon Terminus 0

Installing Terminus on Windows using VM (Virtual Machine)

Terminus is a command-line interface that provides advanced interaction with Pantheon. Terminus enables you to do almost everything in a terminal that you can do in the Pantheon Dashboard, and much more.

Terminus is not yet supported on any version of Windows. Some Windows users have installed Terminus using Git BASH on Git for Windows, or the Windows Subsystem for Linux, but according to Pantheon documentation, it is not supported.

This solution is to use Linux on a virtual machine, also there’s an inclusion of a provisioned dependency of Terminus along with the three common plugins, namely:

The Build Tools Terminus Plugin
The Composer Terminus Plugin
The Site Clone Terminus Plugin

Requirements

PC / Laptop
- At least 500MB of disk space
- At least 8GB of RAM
- CPU that supports Hyper-V or AMD Virtualization
Git
Virtual Box
Vagrant

Here’s the url repository

https://github.com/careydayrit/terminus-windows

Installation

clone repo
go to the repository folder after cloning
type vagrant up
type vagrant ssh
authenticate to pantheon using machine token

That’s it, simple steps there is no need to figure out how to install the dependency of PHP, Composer, CURL, or library dependency.

Happy Coding!

February 7, 2020 by Carey Pantheon Terminus 1

Installing WP Rocket on Pantheon Platform

Installing Terminus on Windows using WSL 2

Installing Terminus on MacOS (Mojave)

Installing Terminus on Ubuntu 18.04.4

Installing Terminus on Windows using VM (Virtual Machine)

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