Eventhough Apache ships with macOS, a better maintained version would be coming from Homebrew, also Apple is making noises about not supporting legacy software like PHP so in the future this may be more of a compulsory option.macOS use to…

MariaDB is an alternative to MySQL database which is more performant with a full open license, you can install it easily on macOS via Homebrew. The first step is to install Homebrew on your computer and possibly to remove any…

To remove an instance of MySQL Database Server from your macOS or OSX installation you need to delete a number of files via the command line, but first ensure that you have database dumps of your databases and that then…

The latest macOS versions of Big Sur and Catalina currently ship with PHP 7.3 and have a deprecation notice that they intend to drop support for PHP altogether in a future upgrade.You can see this by running a <? phpinfo();…

Optimus Prime is a cache warmer to load web pages faster on initial load by querying all pages on a websites sitemap via the sitemap URL, it works in harmony with a cache plugin preloading tool. Optimus Prime also has…

Reducing space on a server is a never ending task, taking out the big unnecessary large files will speed up the process. A bloated log is an example of files that may be building up on your limited disk space.…

This tutorial will require a mysql database set up with a database user and password and a web development environment using mysql or mariadb, apache and php and a simple text editor. The tutorial takes you through establishing a mysql…

In macos you can query a domain via the command line via default nameservers with a couple of DNS querying tools, notably nslookup and dig, how that works is on the command line: dig domain.com or nslookup domain.com The results…