This guide shows a Git and WordPress workflow and demonstrates version control using Git from a local development environment on OSX to a live production webserver which is a cPanel server running on CentOS. CentOS cPanel comes with Git and you can do an easy install for OSX. Set up SSH (no passwords) A key requisite for this is …
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Setting Up a Malware Scanner on your WebServer
Getting and installing a malware scanner in place on your web server is something that needs to be done as a priority, pretty much as soon as the server is set up, if you are on shared hosting then this will probably not be possible as you don’t control what you can install on a global basis …
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Taking out the Big Boys – Finding the Large Files on a Linux Server
Making space on a server is a never ending task, taking out the big unnecessary files will speed up the process. Errant log are an example of files may be building up on your limited disk space. This command run on Linux: CentOS, Red Hat & Fedora and via command line access to a cPanel …
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Reset or Set Default Permissions to Domain for Files and Directories in cPanel
If your permissions are incorrect for files and folders in a webroot domain more than likely you’ll get a server 500 error. Here is how to fix them by resetting, especially using the correct defaults for a cPanel domain or other web server for files and directories.
MySQL ERROR! The server quit without updating PID file
ERROR! The server quit without updating PID file ERROR! MySQL server PID file could not be found! Getting these bad boy errors on your mysql on OSX, there seems to be lots of solutions about how to fix this, Google hell, this more than likely happens if mysql is running and the OS is updated …
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WordPress Woo Slider Stopped Working | Cloudflare Rocket Loader Conflict
If you have recently added your site to the Cloudflare service and set the caching to aggressive you may lose some javascript functionality on your site. One such example is in WordPress if you are using a Woo Theme one of the casualties of aggressive caching may be the slider images simply stop sliding or …
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How to Install CloudFlare Apache Module on cPanel Server
Get the mod_cloudflare Apache module installed and configured on a cPanel server. Download the Pearl installer script that will allow you to compile the Apache EasyScript to include the mod_cloudflare module perl <(curl https://raw.github.com/tylerl/util/master/easyapache/cloudflare.pl) install Next login to your cPanel server, go to EasyApache update script. Move along the wizard until you get to the …
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Increase the Upload Size for MySQL Database on cPanel with phpMyAdmin using WHM
cPanel/WHM Server imposes a limit on the size of a mysql database that can be imported into phpMyAdmin. The default size is 50MB. The best way to navigate this limitation is to make some tweaks in the WHM interface. Sometimes editing a php.ini file doesn’t make a difference.