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();…

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.…

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…

Redirecting within the same domainUsing 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]

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…

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…

Not all cache plugins or apps preload pages or provide a warm cache of all content, normally the first time a page is visited it is not cached but subsequent pages are. More plugins are providing pre-loading or warm cache…

This is the command to force a SSH password between a client and server, you may have passwordless connection set up with SSH keys but want to check that a password is correct.ssh -o PreferredAuthentications=password -o PubkeyAuthentication=no user@1.2.3.4Swap out user@1.2.3.4…

You can block xmlrpc.php and wp-login.php via NGINX with the configurations below, what’s good about this approach is that it prevents brute force attacks at the NGINX server level without any PHP/MySQL resources being used. xmlrpc.php for NGINX location =…

Hostname in Ubuntu 18.04 & 20.04 & 22.04You can find and change the hostname with the commands hostname or hostnamectl in Ubuntu 18.04 & 20.04, if you run the command on its own it will tell you what the current…