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Adding 7G WAF Firewall for NGINX to CloudPanel

Cloudpanel 7g Waf Firewall

The 7G WAF firewall by Jeff Starr at Perishable Press is a great addition for server level WAF protection, here is a guide on how to add it to CloudPanel’s NGINX stack. Download the 7G WAF NGNIX version Download the…

Disable default WordPress emails on WordPress, themes and plugin updates

Disable Wordpress Default Update Emails

The PHP constants below will disable the default WordPress emails on WordPress, themes and plugin updates. They should be added into your wp-config.php file. // Disable WordPress core update emails add_filter( ‘auto_core_update_send_email’, ‘__return_false’ ); // Disable WordPress plugin update emails…

Add a Swap Partition to a Ubuntu 22.04 instance

Ubuntu 22 Swap Partition

Below is a guide on how you can add a swap disk/partition to a Ubuntu 22.04 instance, I would recommend that you have a decent amount of hard disk space available to avoid constant use of the swap drive, a…

MySQL/MariaDB [Warning] Could not increase number of max_open_files to more than 32768 (request: 100000)

Mariadb Tuning

Seeing the warning recently on a number of VMs running MySQL/MariaDB. [Warning] Could not increase number of max_open_files to more than 32768 (request: 100000) A MariaDB process has requested a larger amount of open files, you can verify the current…

Using MySQL Tuner with MariaDB on Ubuntu 22.04

Mariadb Tuning

Leaving MariaDB settings out of the box may work for some people but not so productive for others, MariaDB can be a resource hog if not checked and result in issues like OOM-Killer(Out of memory) knocking it off. You can…

Flush DNS cache locally on macOS Ventura, Monterey, Big Sur, OSX, Linux and Windows

Dns Clear Cache

When URLs are just not resolving the way you want, it may be time to clear or flush the DNS nameserver local cache – enter the relevant command in the Terminal/command line for the macOS operating system you are on.…

Restart and view status of RunCloud services on the Command Line

Runcloud Mariadb Openlitespeed

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…

Getting Browsersync running with Gulp 4 and Valet on macOS

Browsersync Gulp Valet

Get Browsersync going with Gulp 4+ and Valet as a local development environment. With Gulp 4+ there has been some code upgrades that require any older gulp.js files to be updated, this guide looks at making Browsersync work with Gulp…

Converting MySQL/MariaDB database tables from MyISAM to InnoDB

Myisam Convert Innodb Storage Engine Wordpress

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…