Restart 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 MoreSet Memory Limit for PHP CLI on RunCloud, OpenLiteSpeed
On a RunCloud instance, PHP CLI is a separate server setting which is a toggle control to set the version of PHP that applies to using PHP commands on the command line for the whole server. You can set it by selecting the server in the RunCloud panel then Settings > PHP-CLI Version > PHP…
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 MoreUse 7G WAF Firewall with OpenLiteSpeed on a RunCloud instance
You can use the 7G WAF FIrewall from Jeff Starr at Perishable Press with a web app running ontop of OpenLiteSpeed using htaccess. This can also be used on a RunCloud OLS server (they already have a GUI 7G install for NGINX as part of their web stack). For OLS you add the 7G WAF…
Read MoreBlock xmlrpc.php WordPress running on OpenLiteSpeed using .htaccess
You can block the xmlrpc.php WordPress file when running on OpenLiteSpeed by adding a rewrite rule in the .htaccess file. This will reduce the brute force threat of bots making multiple resource requests. Add to your webroot .htaccess file either add it in a mod_rewrite existing block or add a new one: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteRule…
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