Find out how many inodes you are using on a hard disk or in a directory?
Inodes are like pseudo files that manage the metadata about the actual files and folders on the filing system, they don’t have any data in them. Most hosting plans have a limitation on inodes – so you need to know how many inodes there are and where they are being used if you need to…
Read MoreUpdating to PHP versions 7.4 and 8 on macOS 11 Big Sur and Catalina
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(); ?> function in a webhosted file or running php -v on the command line.…
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 MoreFinding the Large Files on a Linux/Ubuntu Server
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 command run on Linux: CentOS, Red Hat, Fedora and Ubuntu via command line will…
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 MoreRestart Start Stop MySQL Server from Command Line, macOS, Linux
To restart, start or stop MySQL or mariadb database servers from the command line, type the following at the shell prompt… On Linux start/stop/restart from the command line: /etc/init.d/mysqld start /etc/init.d/mysqld stop /etc/init.d/mysqld restart Some Linux flavors offer the service command too service mysqld start service mysqld stop service mysqld restart or service mysql start…
Read MoreRedirecting a Web Folder Directory to another Directory in htaccess
Redirecting within the same domain Using htaccess in your root level of your web server, how you redirect one page to another is: RewriteRule ^url-string-to-redirect$ http://www.yourdomain.com/your-new-url-string [R=301,L]
Read MoreSet up Cache Warming on RunCloud with Optimus Prime
Here is a tutorial on adding a cache warming tool: Optimus Prime on a RunCloud instance, your site will need to have an xml sitemap similar to the one provided by Yoast WordPress SEO. RunCloud also has preloading as an option in their Runcache plugin, the Optimus Prime cache warmer can help when that is…
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 with fail2ban on a RunCloud server. 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 you just want to ban only one of them just…
Read MoreSearch for multiple IP addresses in webserver log
To search for an IP address in a server log, grep is a tool to do it. To search for a single IP address, you need to know where the log file is then either navigate to it or use an absolute path, if you are already in the correct directory use grep like so……
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