{"id":234,"date":"2026-10-23T00:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T00:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/44.235.24.161\/?p=234"},"modified":"2026-10-23T00:47:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T00:47:00","slug":"later-that-day-22-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willaford.com\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"Later that day 22 October"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Create new instance: smooth<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Create new static ip: smooth<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Export \/ Import content from old instance to new: ok<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is left: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>setup HTTPS for new instance<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>solve for new instance able to send email<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>move DNS routing to new instance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Setup HTTPS for the new instance:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/lightsail\/latest\/userguide\/amazon-lightsail-enabling-https-on-wordpress.html\">https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/lightsail\/latest\/userguide\/amazon-lightsail-enabling-https-on-wordpress.html<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/44.235.24.161\/?p=59\">https:\/\/44.235.24.161\/?p=59<\/a>  (willaford.com\/?p=59) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Check the firewall rules &#8212; back to the console, again.  Careful! You must to to the instance, then the networking tab.  Going to the networking section of lightsail then selecting the instance gives you something *very* different.   OK. Yes, 22, 80, 443 are all configured.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I think we are going to have issues with lightsail domains conflicting with existing Route53 Configuration.   Checking.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>OKAY &#8212; going back and swapping in the static IP in raw DNS config in route53.  Manual change.  No CDK, pipeline, MCM or checklist<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>at 5:36 PM Pacific Time 22 October 2026, William decided to use the sharpest tool on the internet [dns] without guardrails.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Testing the change by saving this and reloading from willaford.com.  Expected result is non-secure [no https] routing to this location. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Notably, the old instance does not have this update. willaford.net and willafor.org will resolve to the old instance until those are changed. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is left: Setup HTTPS for the new instance:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willaford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willaford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willaford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willaford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willaford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/willaford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/willaford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willaford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willaford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willaford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}