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SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux)
After a bit of trouble-shooting, I discovered that, while Apache may have permission to read/write according to the file permissions above, an additional set of commands need to be run to have Linux verify that Apache really does have those permissions: if the above doesn’t work, you may need to specify certain files/dirs. Health Check [read more]
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MySQL
Since SHA-256 password hashing is used by default since version 8 of MySQL, we run into a problem if users created with this encryption are attempted with a WordPress install. Below are the commands for creating a user with the native password setup (1 create user, 2 create database, 3 give user access to database, [read more]
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SSL using LetsEncrypt
Letsencrypt is what we use to generate our SSL certificates (allows for HTTPS usage). Below are instructions using certbot to generate your certificates. Generating Certificates Each domain has a line as -d domain.com within the command. You can add more domains by simply adding a listing in that format and executing the command all at [read more]
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File Permissions
Occasionally, WP will have a conniption over file permissions and user/group assignments. The commands below will fix those permissions. For Centos: For Ubuntu: For Mac: or: [read more]
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My 2018
My 2018… wasn’t so great. I didn’t talk about it very much on social media, so apologies if this is surprising to some of you. I lost my sight, barely avoided a diagnosis of MS or brain tumor and instead was told I have atypical optic neuritis. On top of that, kiddo was in the [read more]
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Alexa…
Kiddo and I spent some time looking up the locations of the AppleTV screen savers. The one we were looking at was from Dubai. When hubby got home he asked Alexa to play a song, to which Kiddo asked Alexa to play a different song. The Alexa war escalated to the point that random songs [read more]