Restart and view status of RunCloud services on the Command Line
Here are some command line commands to view the status as well as restart some key services such as OpenLiteSpeed, MariaDB, Redis and Memcached, after having SSH’ed in to your server as root. MySQL/MariaDB Get the status of MariaDB systemctl status mariadb Output will be similar to above, this gives a lot of information on…
Read MoreConverting MySQL/MariaDB database tables from MyISAM to InnoDB
The InnoDB storage engine in MySQL/MariaDB is more performant than MyISAM – here are a few ways to change that database structure, using both the command line and also some WordPress plugins. Changing from MyISAM to InnoDB via the command line If you have wp-cli installed on your webserver you can check for MyISAM tables…
Read MoreSyncing RunCloud and Cloudflare firewalls for fail2ban IPs
This guide looks at adding a proxied Cloudflare service to a server set up with RunCloud and fail2ban with a WordPress jail conf set up. Once you start using Cloudflare as a CDN solution for your hosting, you are adding another firewall into the equation, albeit a very good one, but you may want to…
Read MoreSet up malware scanner LMD Maldet and ClamAV on a RunCloud instance
How to set up a malware scanner with LMD Maldet and ClamAV on a RunCloud server instance. One of the popular and open source malware scanners is an app called Linux Malware Detect and works well scanning any Linux web server, it keeps a daily updated database of known malware exploits from an updated registry…
Read MoreSend command line server emails with Postfix on a Ubuntu Server 22.04
Here is a guide to allow a Ubuntu 22.04 server to send out local server based emails using Postfix. Test Command Line Email To test if emails can be sent via the command line, SSH into your server and try echo “Is email sending OK..?” | mail -s “Sending email!” [email protected] Nothing should return, if…
Read MorePosition WooCommerce Checkout Spinning Icon On Page
WooCommerce checkout page uses a spinning loader icon while the page goes through a series of ajax refreshes throughout the checkout process. The spinning icon is a visual clue to the user to wait until it stops spinning that the page is updated and ready for the next step, however some WordPress themes may not…
Read MoreUse 7G WAF Firewall with OpenLiteSpeed on a RunCloud instance
You can use the 7G WAF FIrewall from Jeff Starr at Perishable Press with a web app running ontop of OpenLiteSpeed using htaccess. This can also be used on a RunCloud OLS server (they already have a GUI 7G install for NGINX as part of their web stack). For OLS you add the 7G WAF…
Read MoreBlock xmlrpc.php WordPress running on OpenLiteSpeed using .htaccess
You can block the xmlrpc.php WordPress file when running on OpenLiteSpeed by adding a rewrite rule in the .htaccess file. This will reduce the brute force threat of bots making multiple resource requests. Add to your webroot .htaccess file either add it in a mod_rewrite existing block or add a new one: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteRule…
Read MoreTweaking RunCloud Servers After Deployment
Here are some references for various fix ups or tweaks that I apply to servers with a RunCloud control panel. These are not all done inclusively, depends on the need. Change root password You root password initially generated by your host provider might be on the weak side always best to change and strengthen it.…
Read MoreBlock wp-login.php and xmlrpc.php via fail2ban on RunCloud
How to ban IP addresses that are brute forcing your wp-login.php and xmlrpc.php on a WordPress install with fail2ban on a RunCloud server. Email yourself any fail2ban IP addresses. Add a WordPress fail2ban filter Create a wordpress.conf file in /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/ [Definition] failregex = ^<HOST> .* “POST .*wp-login.php ^<HOST> .* “POST .*xmlrpc.php ignoreregex = If using…
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