TL;DR, when using recursive scp, symbolic links aren't preserved and are copied as if they are normal directories. So you have to look for another solution to recursively transfer symlinks over ssh. Use Tar over ssh!
Published on Thursday, 4 February 2016
Using Windows Server File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) File Screens you can block vulnerable WordPress plugins from being uploaded to your [IIS](/tags/iis/) web server. In the following example, you'll learn how to block WP DB Backup plugin system-wide on Windows Server, read on...
Published on Sunday, 31 January 2016
In this article I'll show you how to install Varnish Cache on CentOS, version 6.7 in this case. Varnish is a web application accelerator also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. You install it in front of any server that speaks HTTP and configure it to cache the contents. Because Varnish Cache is really, really fast, web applications like WordPress, Drupal and Joomla can greatly benefit from Varnish Cache.
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Published on Tuesday, 29 December 2015
How to install Elasticsearch on CentOS 6.7. Elasticsearch is a highly scalable open-source full-text search and analytics engine. It allows you to store, search, and analyze big volumes of data quickly and in near real time. In this article we'll go over the steps to install Elasticsearch on CentOS 6.7.
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Published on Tuesday, 29 December 2015
The WordPress WP-Super-Cache cache plugin doesn't minify HTML cache files, which I find a disadvantage. Knowing minify libraries, I went looking for an existing solution (why reinvent the wheel?), and found one: WPSCMin. Read on ...
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Published on Sunday, 27 December 2015
How to identify your Microsoft SQL Server version, build and edition.
Published on Friday, 11 December 2015
OpenSSL comes in handy when you need to generate random passwords, for example for system accounts and services. In this short post I'll give you a quick example on how to generate random passwords with OpenSSL in Linux (Bash), Windows and PHP.
Published on Friday, 27 November 2015
How to fix upgrades to Magento 2.0 in PHP 5.6 and higher: PHP 7+.
Published on Wednesday, 25 November 2015
In my case scenario, I had to proxy requests in IIS, because a website was moved from web server A to B, and the DNS wasn't updated yet. All HTTP requests for the moved website are handled in IIS' Default Web Site; that's the wildcard host, and the original host no longer existed there. We needed to match our website and proxy those requests to the new IIS web server. This can either be done using a proxy with URL Rewrite Module, IIS Application Request Routing (ARR), or .htaccess file handled by Helicon Ape.
Published on Thursday, 8 October 2015
Here is how you can verify whether an external command in PowerShell was executed successfully or not by checking its errorlevel. Simply by verifying the PowerShell exit code using the $? operator or $LASTEXITCODE.
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Published on Thursday, 8 October 2015
Learn how to retrieve the Hyper-V virtual machine's serial number with PowerShell
Published on Sunday, 20 September 2015
The Baidu spider (BaiduSpider user agent) can be a real pain to block, especially since it does not respect a robots.txt as it should. This post shows you how to block Baidu Spider bot, using IIS URL Rewrite Module based on its User-Agent string.
Published on Saturday, 8 August 2015
Now that you've optimized PHP realpath_cache_size, it's time to fine-tune PHP OPcache. With just a few tweaks you can tune OPcache to make it perform much better, and here is how! ...
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Published on Friday, 31 July 2015
Learn how to conditionally add Google Analytics tracking code to your WordPress Multisite
Published on Saturday, 11 July 2015
It is important to protect your WordPress website from brute-force attacks, and various security exist in doing so, but don't blatantly copy from other sites without proper testing, as this post points out.
Published on Friday, 10 July 2015