Changing the SSH Port in ServerPilot
ServerPilot comes with a default firewall which is enabled and comes in the form of a toggle in the ServerPilot control panel. The panel is a front for the ufw (uncomplicated firewall) app which in turn is a front for ip tables but with a lower learning curve, by default the below rules are the…
Read MoreViewing and Changing WordPress Default Permissions
Many issues can go wrong if your WordPress default permissions have changed due to some unforeseen circumstance or a migration has gone bad due to some abnormal hosting environment. The default Linux permissions for most hosts WordPress sites are 644 for files and 755 for folders which is: file is rw-r–r– folder is drwxr-xr-x For a file…
Read MoreSet Up Let’s Encrypt SSL on cPanel WHM Server
The free SSL service Let’s Encrypt is now available to use on a cPanel/WHM service for versions above 58.0.17, this was announced recently on the feature requests component of the cPanel website. Checking your cPanel/WHM Version Check if your version is above 58.0.17 by logging into your WHM interface and checking the top right. If…
Read MoreStop Spam Subscriber Accounts Registering on WordPress
If you have been getting a bunch of unwanted new user registrations on your WordPress website and are wondering what they are and where they are coming from, with such bogus email addresses mostly from the gmail.com domain like [email protected] it’s just a bunch of automated spam, do not fear, here’s what to do! Spambots trawling through…
Read MoreMigrate WordPress Site from Local Development to Live Server and fix serialized data issues
There are a number of ways to migrate a local development WordPress site from a test to a live server, you can to this manually or via a plugin. Migrating WordPress Manually The manual way to migrate a WordPress site to a live server is in a few steps: Copy the all the contents of…
Read MoreRedirect HTTP to HTTPS on Tomcat Server Install
You’ve bought your SSL secure certificate and successfully installed on Tomcat with the keytool but how do your redirect the entire site to go HTTPS and redirect any HTTP connection straight over to HTTPS. You need to edit the 2 Tomcat configuration files; server.xml and web.xml and then when edited restart the tomcat service. Open…
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