This has happened to me a couple of times now, so I thought I’d document it. TrueCommand has indicated that replication is failing on my main server for a particular dataset. Now, I know I’ve been messing around quite a bit with WordPress, rebuilding jails and associated datasets. The UDance WordPress site has been problematical …
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Securing phpMyAdmin in a WordPress Jail
This post assumes you’ve run at least version 1.3.0 of the Scripted WordPress Installation. In the post WordPress Script: Post-Installation Tasks, I suggest that a way of securing phpMyAdmin in a WordPress jail is to disable it when not in use. One way to disable phpMyAdmin is to unlink it in the jail rm /usr/local/www/wordpress/phpmyadmin. This …
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WordPress: A Disaster Recovery Strategy
The infographic below describes a streamlined approach to WordPress disaster recovery that minimises the room for error, and maximises the chances of fully restoring a WordPress site under a wide range of WordPress disaster scenarios. I’ve tested the approach against my own blog site and apart from a minor tweak of WP Super Cache, a WordPress …
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WordPress Plugin: A Marriage made in Heaven for UpdraftPlus and FreeNAS
The goal here is to use FreeNAS storage to store UpdraftPlus backups of WordPress sites. Local user authentication is assumed for FreeNAS. Outline of the basic steps: A. Set up the UpdraftPlus storage root. Set aside storage space on FreeNAS for UpdraftPlus. Create the UpdraftPlus user and group on FreeNAS. Configure and start the FTP …
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Scripted WordPress Installation
If the statistics are to be believed, in 2020: WordPress powers 35% of the internet. Around 60% of CMS sites are WordPress. Around 28% of WordPress sites run e-commerce. Around 75% of hacked CMS sites were built on WordPress 😢 There are few current guides in the iXsystems Community Forum for setting up WordPress and none …
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Tautulli in a FreeNAS Jail
At the time of preparing this post, I’m working with FreeNAS 11.3-U4-1 and Tautulli 2.5.5. As evidenced in the forum thread Tautulli been running fine but now can’t start, the transition from Python 2 to 3 has been somewhat bumpy for Tautulli users on FreeNAS. The Tautulli FreeBSD/FreeNAS Installation Instructions lends itself to scripting, however, it leaves the …
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