Questions tagged [wordpress]
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Setup a very Basic DMZ for WordPress
We are thinking of switching our corporate website from externally hosted and designed, to an internal WordPress server. This is so we can maintain direct control, as well as run our own traffic ...
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Apache 2.4.12 Redirect Wordpress subfolder to another server ip address
I am running wordpress inside the laravel public folder which acts as the root of my site. How do I redirect to another server ip address i.e. (xx.xx.xx.xxx) when one accesses the following subfolder: ...
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Pound SSL Wrapper Wordpress Login Issue
my Setup is like this
Visitor -> Pound -> Varnish -> nginx
My Wordpress site is looking fine from the front end (with https), but as soon i try to login to the backend this error comes up "You do ...
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Wordpress Website now showing 404 Error? Can't fix [duplicate]
My website: www.kmskinboutique.com
It is now showing a 404 Error warning on 1/2 the page (on the homepage & tabs). Nothing is missing - the warning just pushed my website down. I have searched ...
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Intermittent issues on iis 7.5 site running wordpress, internal error 500
This happened to a wordpress site that was working previously, the server is running IIS 7.5 on Server 2k8 R2 (fully patched).
On the friendsofridingmountain.ca site, browsing through the pages will ...
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SED multiline recursive find and replace [duplicate]
I have a large number of sites with the same bit of php inserted in all files that contain footer in their filenames.
//###==###
malicious code
//###==###
How to use SED or another command to remove ...
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CentOS email setup for Wordpress
I am moving an old Wordpress install to a new CentOS LEMP stack VPS. I want to set up email for the new VPS. It came with sendmail installed by default but I find it to be overkill. I just need a ...
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WordPress permalinks are not working
I am having a problem with WordPress permalink redirects not working correctly.
I was able to specify the permalink convension through settings interface. WordPress properly names hyperlink. However, ...
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Wordpress is unable to write files, despite correct file permissions [closed]
I am unable to automatically install plugins or themes on my new wordpress setup. It gives me this screen:
I believe this is usually due to a write permission error on the wordpress directory. These ...
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Moved an old wordpress site to another folder on the server, but it is still redirecting even though there is no .htaccess file
My friends site got some malware or something, so he decided to stop using wordpress and have me build his website from scratch. I have never used wordpress in my life, but I FTP'd into the root ...
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CSS & JS & images = 404 for WordPress blog in Rails + Nginx environment
I'm pulling out my hair on this one.
You can see yourself here - http://starterpad.com/blog/ - that all the images, CSS, and JS files are 404 errors.
The main StarterPad site (http://starterpad.com) ...
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Can't get 404s for Wordpress pages with permalinks and nginx
I have nginx 1.6.2 serving a wordpress site, with php-fpm.
Permalinks are setup the following way: /blog/%postname%/
nginx serves correctly the site pages (/, /products, /contact...) as well as the ...
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Wordpress Opening From Wrong Directory
I have an Amazon ec2 m3 medium instance running AMI(RedHat based) Linux.
I am trying to host multiple domains on this instance by adding this at the end of httpd.conf:
<VirtualHost *:80>
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Improve speed of WordPress backend on Ubuntu VPS
I have a WordPress site running on my VPS which is quite high-specced (3520MB RAM, 4 Cores). The server runs Nginx and php5-fpm.
Although the site is responsive on the front end, the backend tends to ...
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How to Debug Wordpress hosted in Azure Web Site
I have a Wordpress site hosted in azure and configured with my domain and private certificate. Some time ago (I don't remember any changes, but I tend not to remember things) I started to get logged-...
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Wordpress and Apache crashing MySql (CLOSE_WAIT)
Last days mysql server on my vps start crashing, sometimes right after restart.
I found that problem in wordpress website. After service mysql start many apache2 processes overload memory and cpu. ...
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How can a bog-standard Wordpress install break PHP?
I'm trying to host a Wordpress site on the root of a standard Apache setup on Ubuntu 14.04. The main page of the site loads fine, but any other page causes a "no data received" message in the browser, ...
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Logging 403 Rewrites for Brute Force Attacks
As explained in Wordpress Codec, I want to prevent brute force attacks for wp-login.php via RewritetRule.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Brute_Force_Attacks#Deny_Access_to_No_Referrer_Requests
Rather ...
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Nginx 403 forbidden error after moving wordpress files to a different location
I had Wordpress working inside a Rails application using fastcgi. Now I'm moving everything around so that it can be accessed at /blog in production. I moved the wordpress files and updated the nginx ...
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MySQL: Error establishing a database connection
I'm running a DigitalOcean.com Virtual Server with the typical Ubuntu LAMP Stack for a few WordPress sites. Of course, every week or two the MySQL service seems to crash. If I restart MySQL or the ...
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Apache process seems to die every hour
Background: I have a very old site running on a very old VPS, a very old Apache and a very old PHP that I can't upgrade because it's a very old CentOS machine. It's an up-to-date WordPress site that ...
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Why would IIS use two different PHP installs?
I've inherited this Windows Server 2008 server that we use as our primary web server and have lately been running into some oddities. Previously, PHP was installed by just downloading a zip file, ...
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can not upload files to wordpress on apache server
I have installed wordpress on localhost with apache server on fedora . when I want to upload files to it I get this error:
Unable to create directory wp-content/uploads/2014/07. Is its parent
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How can I reject access to server for POST requests with long content lengths
I have a problem with our server (CentOS 6) where we are getting repeated requests to access wp-login.php on a URL that doesn't exist, although Wordpress will try and redirect.
We get a number of ...
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DreamPress WordPress site Varnish Cache Error
Every now and then, often when I write a post on my Dreamhost DreamPress WordPress blog I get this Varnish related error:
Error 503 Service Unavailable
Service Unavailable
Guru Meditation:
XID: ...
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Trying to find bottleneck... 60k onsite visitors
I know this will be hard, but I'm willing to try the Q&A route.
I have a Wordpress site that currently has 60,000 visitors on the site at once.
I'm using an EC2 m3.xlarge, php/php-fpm 5.5.10, ...
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Is it possible to copy an entire website and database without back end access to the server itself?
My entire website was duplicated by someone, and I mean, duplicated. They did not just rip the content and re-publish it. The site looks as if I used my backup files and put them on a new server with ...
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Apache hitting 90-100% on ubuntu "top", how do I find what's causing the extra cpu cycles?
My webstie is slow and I'm trying to troubleshoot the backend.
On an article page the cpu is hitting ~100%.
I'm using ubuntu/Apache and I'm viewing the stats using top.
The process hogging the cpu ...
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Order that Apache handles .htaccess directives
I was working on a WordPress site yesterday, mostly in a Web Performance Optimization capacity (on shared hosting).
At one point I noticed that my .htaccess file had redundant, possibly ...
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Varnish caching wordpress site per user or UA (i am not sure). I want the caching to be universal
I have recently switched a website from generic PHP to wordpress driven. The varnish front-end is the same except for rules to accommodate wp-admin.
I find the cache-hit is unique to my connection ...
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Nginx complete folder protection not working
I have installed nginx(1.4.3) with PHP-FPM(5.4.20). i want to protect my wordpress wp-admin folder.
my nginx configuration file domain.conf:
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com;
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Prevent server beeing flooded with requests
I'm hosting a Wordpress-blog on an Apache server (shared hosting).
For some reasons I've been receiving like 100 requests per second to xmlrpc.php for a few days.
The access.log looks like this:
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How do I make the server response faster on search results (WP, nginx, apc)
I have my own virtual server in the cloud, running nginx and APC. On this server I have one wordpress blog using the W3TC-plugin. I've enabled page cache and object cache using APC.
When accessing ...
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Trouble configuring virtual host to allow standard wordpress mod_rewrite for permalinks
I'm having a little trouble getting the standard mod_rewrite that wordpress generates in my directorys .htaccess file to work correctly. The server I'm using has a virtual host set up on it by ...
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Nginx cache entire site while performing MySQL maintenance
I currently have a high traffic WordPress site that is entirely static. But it currently generates each page via the MySQL database anyway (I know I should be caching content).
I will be moving the ...
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WordPress 3.5 Multisite and nginx siteurl issues
I'm setting up multisite on localhost in subdirectories.
The problem is that when I'm trying to access the dashboard of a site I just created ( localhost/wptest/site/wp-admin ) I get "This webpage ...
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Nginx Rewrite with a question mark
I am trying to force Nginx to redirect/rewrite one URL that uses a query string /?cat=20 to /category/lighttpd/. Here is what I tried, which is not working:
location ~ /\?cat=20 {
rewrite ^ http:/...
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How to do live.mywebsite.com => mywebsite.com/live via .htaccess?
I need to do the following thing
Mapping this subdomain live.mywebsite.com/something to mywebsite.com/live/something
for examples :
www.live.mywebsite.com/ ==> www.mywebsite.com/live/
http://...
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Mapping godaddy domain with AWS EC2
I have a word-press website running on EC2. I have a domain registered with godaddy. I used the elastic IP from AWS EC2 to set up A record.
The problem is, only the main page shows www.domainname....
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What can I do about a (possibly) nonfunctional server?
We're back online. I still don't know what happened though. The power went out...
My school's website, (formerly) located at www.petagimnazija.hr, seems to be down.
When I try to load it in a ...
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Output caching in IIS doesn't work for Wordpress php files
I enabled output caching for php files
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<serverRuntime frequentHitThreshold="1" frequentHitTimePeriod="00:00:30" />
<caching>
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My wordpress website is deadly slow
We have a wordpress 3 installation on a fresh new dedicated server. Our website was working fine for about 1 year before on a very smaller VPS. After changing our hosting platform, we moved the ...
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wordpress in subdirectory apache2 without browse index and .htaccess
Sorry if this has been asked before but I looked through other posts and couldn't find my answer.
Wordpress is up and running inside /var/www/wordpress/
However when I browse to www.mysite.com I get ...
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nginx virtual host redirects to localhost
I have an nginx configuration where the virtual host keeps getting redirected to the localhost. I have tested and reloaded the configuration, /etc/hosts is doing the current name resolution, and I ...
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Not Backing Up Files That Don't Change In A WordPress Install
I have a WordPress install and I'm wonder what is generally best practice when it comes to back up. I'm asking here instead of WordPress.stackexchange as this question is not only a WordPress question ...
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Apache folder and file permissions
I hope I came to the right site for this question.
Basically here is the scenario
You have folder name "Testfolder" which is hosted on Apache. Test folder has files that only certain users on the ...
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Nginx Redirection Issue
My Nginx setting currently has this:
location / {
if (!-e $request_filename){
rewrite ^/(.*)$ https://domain.com/index.php?id=$1 redirect;
}
}
Basically for non-existing ...
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Nginx server 301 Moved permanently
When I did a curl -v http://site-wordpress.com:81 I received this result:
* About to connect() to site-wordpress.com port 81 (#0)
* Trying ip... connected
* Connected to site-wordpress.com (ip) ...
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How to debug solve 500 Internal error aws micro ec2 with suexec, Apache and php CGi
I'm running WordPress multi-site on an amazon micro ec2 with suexec, Apache and php CGi On Ubuntu 12.04 However I've been experiencing a lot of Internal server 500 errors and I'm in the process of ...
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htaccess REQUEST_URI works for urls but not IP addresses in Wordpress default htaccess
I'm getting pretty confused my htaccess file.
If I use the following directives:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} distribute$
RewriteRule (.*) BalanceManager.php [L]
Then I expect https://somehwhere.com/...
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