Set Up Valet on macOS for Local WordPress Development
This is a guide on how to set up Laravel Valet on macOS for a WordPress local development environment. Using Valet as a WordPress local development solution has the main benefits of speed, being lightweight and using fewer configurations to go wrong than say a solution like Vagrant. There is a 2nd related article that…
Read MoreMySQL/MariaDB [Warning] Could not increase number of max_open_files to more than 32768 (request: 100000)
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 limit by starting a mysql session on your server and adding on the command line:…
Read MoreUsing MySQL Tuner with MariaDB on Ubuntu 22.04
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 use a tool called MySQLTuner to give you some variables to adjust in your MariaDB/MySQL…
Read MoreRestart 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 MoreInstalling MariaDB Database Server on macOS
MariaDB is an alternative to MySQL database which is more performant with a full open license, you can install it easily on macOS via Homebrew. The first step is to install Homebrew on your computer and possibly to remove any older MySQL database server versions. Once Homebrew is installed, on the command line: brew install…
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