Microsoft IIS – Stop Getting Indexed By Search Engines
KB ID 0001352 Problem If you have a publicly facing website, and you DON’T want it indexed by the major search engines, then this is the post for you. Why would you want this? Well you might have a development server that you don’t want appearing in peoples search results, or you might be hosting files and folders you want publicly available, but again you don’t want those files and folders showing in peoples...
WordPress – HTTP Error
KB ID 0001335 Problem Quite a few times after I rebuilt my server, (and WordPress site), I saw the following when uploading images etc. HTTP Error Solution I was quite sure everything was setup OK, I had set the max file upload limits set, but it turns out I needed to add a ‘memory limit’ in my wp-config.php file before the error ceased. For completeness I’ll include the other usual suspects, in case yours is setup...
Nginx Error – 413 Request Entity Too Large
KB ID 0001325 Problem A few weeks ago I did a series on setting up a new WordPress site, shortly after I had some problems uploading my caching plugin (wp-rocket). This was the error I got; 413 Request Entity Too Large nginx/1.10.3 (Ubuntu) Anyway, I fixed the error, and a few days later I got an email from someone with the same problem, so I thought this time I would document the fix. Solution Note: I’m going to raise the...
Ubuntu: Setting Up a WordPress Website with LEMP – Part 3
KB ID 0001320 Problem So you want your own web server running WordPress? Previously in Parts One and Two, we setup a new Linux box, and got all the prerequisites installed. Now it’s time to deploy WordPress. Solution There are a few extra bits we need to add to the PHP installation before we setup WordPress, to get those installed run the following command; sudo apt-get install php-curl php-gd php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-xml...
Ubuntu: Setting Up a WordPress Website with LEMP – Part 2
KB ID 0001319 Problem Back in part one we deployed the server and setup our database, now we are going to setup our nginx web server, and get it to work with PHP. Solution Install NGINX To get the nginx package installed; sudo apt install nginx Now ensure nginx is set to start automatically with the server, and manually start the service. sudo systemctl enable nginx sudo systemctl start nginx Make sure it’s up and running;...
Ubuntu: Setting Up a WordPress Website with LEMP – Part 1
KB ID 0001318 Problem At the time of writing this site is running on CentOS7 LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL and PHP). Well I’m actually using MariaDB not MySQL as it’s ‘supposed’ to be a little faster, but they are similar enough to be accepted. I’m planning to migrate to Ubuntu 17 LEMP (Linux ‘EnginX’ MySQL and PHP) again with MariaDB. As the site is getting more traffic I want to utilise the...