For a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) installation php.ini could be in /etc directory or your wordpress home for example /var/www/html/wp-admin. To support WordPress import/export: In it I put: upload_max_filesize = 256Mpost_max_size = 64Mmemory_limit = 256Mfile_uploads = On
in WordPress (Linux based) make sure you save it so “apache” or what ever web server you are using can get to it – for example: chown apache:apache wp-config.php will do it. If apache can’t read this file – it’s not going to server up any page. Figured that out by looking at /var/log/httpd/error_log
There are a few ways. I had access to the underlying database in mysql and just ran this: update wp_options set option_value=’http://www.yourdomain.com’ where option_name like ‘%siteurl%’ or option_name=’home’; commit;
Tired of comment spam in your wordpress blog – well if you have access to your wordpress instance and database you can just delete all the unapproved ones I do a lot of posts – mostly just for my own reference – but others are viewing them also – mostly spammers… unfortunately trying to get …
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Turn off smart quotes using preformatted <pre> tag “here’s a quoted string in regular paragraph mode – smart quotes ON” “here’s a sentence that uses Preformatted to get rid of smart quotes” How did that happen? In the WordPress blog editor, I selected the text I wanted to remove smart quotes from – then changed …
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Installing WordPress on RHEL 7, CentOs 7 or Oracle Linux 7, and BTW this works for AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2 (recently released December 2017) I’ve done this on CentOS 7, Oracle Linux 7.4 and Amazon Linux 2 – same process on all. # do all this as root or prefix each command with sudo …
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By default they are in the sub-directories at or below: /var/lib/mysql For example here is a listing of the wordpress database stored in MySQL/MariaDB [root@lampcent7 wordpress]# pwd /var/lib/mysql/wordpress [root@lampcent7 wordpress]# ls -altr total 168 -rw-rw—-. 1 mysql mysql 65 Jan 18 10:57 db.opt drwxr-xr-x. 5 mysql mysql 182 Jan 18 15:25 .. -rw-rw—-. 1 mysql …
This is a recent issue for this blog. Jetpack has never been blazing fast but now it just spins and never comes back with stats… not good. So far, I turned on wordpress debug – and removed the plug-in and will re-install and update soon… Update: Un-installed and re-installed. Probably more important – yesterday I …
Turn on debug in wordpress – by default spools errors to the screen when set to “true”. in the main configuration file wp-config.php change “define(‘WP_DEBUG’, false);” to “define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true);”. Can be a security concern as all users see the messages… turn it off at your earliest convenience. A couple more debug features exist as follows: …
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Ok, I post lots of UNIX / Linux based code snippets and I don’t want Windows displaying “smart quotes”. When I put a quote in a blog post, I want it displayed exactly as I posted it. Here’s how to turn Windows smart quotes off in WordPress using cPanel: Using File Manager in cPanel – …
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