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MariaDB 10.2 on cPanel and missing default value

Posted on August 3, 2017

So latest cPanel 66.x offers upgrade for MariaDB to version 10.2, which sounds great if you want to offer latest to your customers. But one […]

MySQL

Installing and configuring PHP5.2, PHP5.3 and any other with FastCGI + easyApache4 and latest cPanel on CentOS

Posted on March 10, 2017

Important note: last PHP5.2 branch version was released on 6.January 2011 and is currently unsupported. It is security risk to keep running this version of […]

Linux, PHP

Protect WordPress from password hijackers and login abusers

Posted on February 22, 2017

For a long time WordPress login script has been a target on our servers. Hackers are constantly trying to login into WordPress with random usernames […]

Security, Wordpress

Instant Bounce Back: “retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period”

Posted on November 2, 2016

cd /var/spool/exim/db rm -f retry retry.lockfile rm -f wait-remote_smtp wait-remote_smtp.lockfile service exim restart

Linux

Fix for PHP/Apache2.4 not to force UTF-8 encoding

Posted on October 14, 2016

In fact it is PHP, that is sending extra header, making browser think, that page is in UTF8. That is wrong. To disable this edit […]

Linux, PHP

How to mount remote directory over SSH

Posted on May 6, 2016

SSH is great, secure and stable protocol, that is used for remote access to *nix servers and file transfer. Now it is possible to mount […]

Linux

Linux filesystem tune-up for less IO and more memory usage

Posted on February 10, 2016

[Updated on 29.Oct.2018] As opposed to Windows, Linux and Unix systems allow user to tweak huge number of things. Most of these extra fine-grain-fine-tune-tiny-hidden-options are […]

Linux

Report failed WordPress login attempts to firewall

Posted on January 29, 2016

WordPress site login abusers create problems for many hosting companies. If your wordpress installation is using many plugins and has a lot of posts – […]

Wordpress

vmware tools installation is locked on CentOS

Posted on January 14, 2016

On many our CentOS servers when installing vmware tools – mounted iso image is not being properly unmounted and released until next reboot. This often […]

Linux

How to fix SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE verify failed

Posted on December 29, 2015

This is working solution for the error SSL error SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed I had this problem on a fresh CentOS with manually installed openssl-1.0.2e. Might […]

PHP