Questions tagged [wordpress]
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Trying to set HttpOnly but no changes are working
After a PenTest was told to set the HttpOnly flag on all of our cookies. We have an Ubuntu Server 22.04 & 24.04 LAMP stack with a WordPress website. I have made changes to /etc/apache2/apache2....
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google cloud vm instance stopped and now I can't access my Wordpress site [closed]
After restarting, I cannot reach my Wordpress site. I can access SSH, I can access my phpmyadmin. any help is appreciated.
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php --info shows different configuration than phpinfo()
I’m running the official image wordpress:6.8.1-php8.2-apache of WordPress in a Kubernetes pod. I tried using Duplicator to create a backup, but it failed to finish. In the Duplicator logs, I saw the ...
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If using a wordpress cache purge plugin, what should permissions and ownership of the Nginx FastCGI Cache folder be when caching files on a ramdisk?
I am runnning an Ubuntu 24.04 LEMP server with Nginx, and Nginx FastCGI Caching. I have 3 wordpress websites, and am using the Nginx Cache Purge Preload plugin for Wordpress. I am caching to a ramdisk ...
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Apache2 reverse proxy (WordPress)
I am trying to set up a pair of Dell PowerEdge Servers, both running Ubuntu 24.04 as front-end and back-end web servers powered by Apache 2 using a reverse proxy. There are two blogs and a website, ...
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Docker wordpress + caddy = REST API and Loopback error
I have a docker stack consisting of caddy and wordpress currently in development at https://localhost and I am getting two critical erros: I am not sure what could be causing this The REST API ...
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16GB Linode, Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS, PHP8.3FPM - Configuration Recommendations
We're running about a dozen WordPress sites on this server, and performance is really slow, with 'Service Unavailable' messages popping up from time to time. Restarting Apache and PHPFPM solves that ...
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How can I connect a remote database server on SlickStack?
By default, SlickStack installs MySQL locally and connects WordPress to a localhost database. I want to skip that, and connect to a remote (managed) database server instead... What is the proper way ...
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CSP Issue: Refused to frame '' because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "frame-src
Chrome console error: Refused to frame '' as a fenced frame because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "frame-src 'self' blob: data: I cannot find a solution and ...
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WordPress + NGINX + PHP-FPM fastcgi + Memcached is extremely slow
I'm at a loss here and would love to get some pointers. I'm running AlmaLinux 9.5 with NGINX with fastcgi to PHP-FPM 8.3. WordPress is extremely slow when using more heavy plugins such as WooCommerce ...
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Unusual WordPress website activity from specific source
I need advice on the below apache logs from a website, which at the time was streaming 10 Mbps for 12 minutes. This has been happening for a few weeks and I do not understand what is going on. Are ...
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How do I enable logrotate for the wordpress docker container
I am using the wordpress:latest docker container as per here. I am using docker-compose to bring up the container for wordpress and the db per the website with obvious changes to username and ...
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subdomain redirect to domain, BUT, if I type "subdomain/index.php" (or index.html), it does work and display the page properly (Apache2 & Wordpress)
My VPS crashed some time ago, everything was working as expected. I host 2 Wordpress sites on this server, "domain" and "sub.domain". My apache2 .conf and le-ssl.conf files are the ...
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wordpress "error establishing a database connection" after setup
I have docker compose app running wordpress, phpmyadmin, mysql on my development system. I successfully created the database and was able to initialize wordpress. When I click on the login link after ...
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MariaDB is not using index
MariaDB 10.3 I am investigating a Wordpress / Woocommerce installation, which is quite slow. I threw the slow log into ChatGPT, which suggested adding indexes to the status column of the ...
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Permission denied using Apache userdir module and Laravel or Wordpress
I have a problem that I have been looking for a solution for for a long time and I still haven't found. I use Apache with the userdir module and somehow isolate each site/application in its respective ...
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Failed to start MySQL Community Server on Ubuntu
I'm running apache and mysql on Ubuntu. The server recently ran out of space on the main partition and mysql failed to start as a result. This has happened before and has been an easy fix (increase ...
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Advice on Using NVMe Drives for ZFS Cache to Optimize Performance for Google PageSpeed Insights
I’m setting up a new server with the following ZFS-based storage tiers: Base Storage: RAID-Z2 with 6 x 1TB SAS drives (~4TB usable). SSD Storage: ZFS Mirror with 2 x 1TB SSDs (~1TB usable). NVMe ...
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IIS 404 file not found
I’m trying to obtain an SSL certificate for my WordPress site hosted on IIS on a Windows Server 2022 machine using Win-acme (v2.2.9.1701). However, I’m encountering an issue during the HTTP-01 ...
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Wordpress + php-fpm + NGINX not finding API in prod only
I run a docker application running wordpress images are nginx:latest, wordpress:6.5.4-fpm, mysql:8.0 I use the plugin Contact Form 7 api address is: http://localhost:8888/wp-json/contact-form-7/v1/...
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configuring Wordpress on azure app service to avoid canonical issues
I am a non programmer and am looking to host an educational site using word press on Azure app services with azure front door. I learnt about canonical issues and wanted to ensure that the following ...
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Is admin-ajax.php loading issue in Wordpress web hosts fault?
I can't figure out why admin-ajax.php causes my WordPress website to freeze. network status of admin-ajax.php The website freezes when working inside the admin dashboard after a certain number of ...
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How to asses the memory requirement for x number of users browsing y number of pages
Here is the scenario. I need to get a rough idea of memory consumption of our corporate web site. We are running on Apache. The site is built using WordPress. Is there a way to get the memory ...
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What is wrong with my Nginx conf? Wordpress not loading Postname Permalink articles
Latest Wordpress running on Rocky 8. With Permalinks set to Postname articles in the format of http://www.example.com/this-is-an-article/ return a 404. Here is my Nginx conf file: server { listen ...
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High CPU Usage by php-cgi in WordPress Admin Panel
I’m running a WordPress site on a server with AlmaLinux 9 and cPanel. The site itself is fast, but the admin panel is very slow. When I check the server using htop, I see php-cgi processes consuming ...
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Wordpress on VULTR - Syncing to another Server
We have a server hosted on VULTR through Cloudways. We just experienced a 15 hour shut down by VULTR (server is back up now) but this has led to my looking into how I can have a backup server that is ...
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Did I lose MySQL database after deleting Docker container? [closed]
I setup a local WordPress site using Docker on macOS. I deleted the WordPress container, which had WordPress, MySQL, and phpmyadmin, from the Docker app using Delete --> Delete forever. Restarting ...
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How to Retrieve lost ppk file in AWS
We hosted our WordPress site on AWS. The website is working fine. But we lost the ppk file to connect to SSH. Is there any way to retrieve the lost ppk file in AWS?
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ImageMagick for Linux Alma 8 success but which no magick
I am trying to publish pages or posts in WordPress 6.5.5 (Linux Alma 8) the message in wordpress is: The publication has failed. The response is not a valid JSON response. On error_log: [root@host]# ...
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Nginx 404 - Nginx redirecting every page to 404 not found (nginx 404 page) for all of the sites with html status code 200
My Ubuntu web server was running production sites just normal with nginx and some PHP and python applications. Just about 2 days ago, it started redirecting to 404 Not Found Page for all the sites ...
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How to assign individual IP to Multiple WordPress websites install to Bitnami NGINX SSL Stack
I wanted to add multiple WordPress instance to same VM. The default one is installed in 1 . /opt/bitnami/wordpress 2. I installed a second one at /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress2 Also I have added ...
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wordpress template deployment issue
I was trying to create a wordpress resource - selected azure services only option and it showed one option of "wordpress scalable ....". i tried creating that resource. and it gives me below ...
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.htaccess to accept parameters in URL
I have a WordPress page with the following structure website.com.au/pre-registration/parameter-value/, where the parameter value was originally a GET parameter, but I was requested to make it part of ...
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wordpress + wp mail smtp = email not sending with php mailer
I have a docker wordpress website with WP mail SMTP plugin. I selected the default PHP Emails are not sending. sending test email gives a 504 timeout error php sendmail is installed Dockerfile for ...
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Having issue with Route53, ec2, Apache Virtual host and wordpress working
I am having wordpress blog - https://blog.pepagora.com, hosted on Amazon aWS EC2 instance and DNS is managed in Route53. Suddenly blog site stopped responding and couldn't figure out why? For testing ...
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Server Load from Uptime Checks
I use GCP uptime check to monitor my website checking the home page response is OK. These uptime checks create a significant server load. With 1 min interval uptime checks the CPU use of my VM goes ...
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Docker/WordPress in Sub-Path Redirects to Root
I installed WordPress+OpenLiteSpeed in Docker using this script, adapting it for my needs. I'm hosting the blog in /blog sub-path here. I added this to wp-config.php define('WP_HOME', 'https://www....
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URL Rewrite rule on IIS 10 sending request to a WordPress app
I'm running IIS 10 on Windows Server 2019, with a WordPress install on it (among other things), with URL Rewrite 2.1 installed. IIS is configured properly for the Wordpress app, which is working fine ...
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Azure Wordpress Site Intermittent MySQL Issue
We are trying to figure out an issue where at least one of the Wordpress webserver IPs that Azure serves our site from cannot connect to our Azure MySQL database server The logs have continual ...
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mysql high CPU usage /usr/sbin/mariadbd
Our new VPS server for a wordpress website, have high CPU usage for mysql process, 50% CPU usage all the time. We don't have that many visitors and killing the process not working, there another new ...
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Opening "/server-status" in Apache2 with a WordPress installation is serving a "403 Forbidden" error response
I have been trying to open "/server-status" in Apache2 on my site that's facilitated by a WordPress installation and it is serving a "403 Forbidden" error response when I attempt ...
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Best way to clone Wordpress website for testing environment (subdomain)
I want to have a testing environment for my Wordpress website and I was wondering what the best option would be, as there are many I guess. I've seen many guides with cPanel, which I'm not using ...
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Wordpress and MySQL on same EC2 instance, different subnets. One public one Private
My goal is to have a single EC2 instance containing both WordPress and its MySQL database on same VPC and have the WordPress available on the public subnet and MySQL on the private subnet. The purpose ...
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WP rest api and litespeed incompatibility
I have tried everything I could think of and searched on the on Internet for the last few days I'm spending ~10 hours per day trying to diagnose this. The issue: in WP Site Health I get: The REST API ...
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MIXED CONTENT/CSP issue from (VPS) nginx reverse proxy with termination SSL and (HOME) nginx wordpress
It's been few day as I try to figure out what I'm doing wrong. DNS points to VPS on VPS I have nginx reverse proxy with ssl termination that forward request to home server on home server I have nginx ...
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Unable to detect page cache due to possible loopback request
We have installed cache plugin(WP Rocket) on our website. However, in my WordPress website health check, there is an error: Unable to detect page cache due to possible loopback request problem. Please ...
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Weird backlinks from host name instead of FQDN
Writing here with the hope anyone can help or has similar issue. I recently moved my website to a new VPS. After week or two I started receiving backlinks from my host name, which is counted in google ...
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Getting Nextcloud and Wordpress Image behind a location in NGINX
setting up my Dockered Applications (wordpress nextcloud) behind a reverse proxy location in NGINX if i use NGINX location / wordpress runs out of the box and nextcloud after some configuration in ...
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Best way to serve multiple WorPress sites -- Single server shared hosting
I am looking to move about 500 WordPress sites from their respective individual VMs to a single server for efficiency and cost savings .. That said -- On that single server I will have separated ...
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wordpress mixed content error - Is resolution on GCP possible?
I have a python flask-cors code that is run on GCP compute engine and presents its output on port 3001. Lets say the physical address of my server instance is x1.x2.x3.x4. I have a Javascript file ...
