I’d wanted to try Caddy web server for a while and upgrading to the latest version of WordPress on my website broke the site. Something to do with their WP Super Cache but I couldn’t find anything via Google nor was opening a support ticket useful so I decided to replace it with a new … Read more
I’ve been messing around with Ansible for some time now and have created simple playbooks to patch our servers. I use pip to install the latest Ansible: sudo apt install python3-pip python3-venv python3 -m venv env source env/bin/activate pip3 install ansible The first thing I created was a hosts.ini file: cat hosts.ini [xyze] backup.xyze ansible_ssh_extra_args=”[email protected]” … Read more
I’ve been meaning to try Lighttpd for ages as I wanted to downgrade my server to save money and it takes the least amount of memory compared with apache or nginx. Installed with the help of: https://www.how2shout.com/linux/install-wordpress-on-lighttpd-web-server-ubuntu/ https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-lighttpd-with-php-and-mariadb-on-debian-10/ But had to make changes too. james@instance-1:~$ sudo mysql CREATE DATABASE mydatabase CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci; … Read more