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Homebrew and ImageMagick
This post goes into the details of setting up ImageMagick with Homebrew for use with a WordPress install. [read more]
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Keeping Servers Up-to-Date
Centos As new file patches come out, Centos will need to be updated. Run the following commands to bring the server and its extensions up-to-date: Occasionally you may get this message: There are unfinished transactions remaining. You might consider running yum-complete-transaction, or “yum-complete-transaction –cleanup-only” and “yum history redo last”, first to finish them. If those [read more]
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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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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]