There’s lots of ways you could lose your website – a hard drive can fail, the server could be damaged by a lightning strike, or even stolen in a burglary. To get back up and running you’ll need to fix or replace the hardware, but this post is meant to…
One recommendation that many security experts make is that the WordPress configuration files should be outside the web root. Lets make this change. WordPress Create a new folder called /var/www_config. Put a new folder in here, wordpress Copy the WordPress configuration file across, and set it’s permissions so no-one apart…
The final of the 3 big pieces – this provides document editing capability in Nextcloud. Install Collabora There are a couple of ways to install Collabora, and the recommended way is to use a Docker image. That isn’t ideal for us because the Docker version will use more resources which…
Before enabling public access to Nextcloud, lets take a moment to improve things a little. Apache Config First up, let’s force the use of the HTTPS and make sure we haven’t left any security holes by stripping back the HTTP config file to it’s bare bones. The default Apache configuration…
Database Again, same as for WordPress, we need a database and a user. Same command to login as the root database server user: a similar set of SQL commands to set up the nextcloud database: Disable Public Access – a different way Like before, we don’t want the Nextclound site…
First, we need 1 extra PHP module: Like with WordPress, we’ll create a folder and apache configuration for Nextcloud: And we’ll use essentially the same apache configuration we used for wordpress, with a few tweaks. We’ll also create a temporary configuration for collabora while we’re here: This is just a…
Most of these steps are optional, but highly recommended Set up Anti-Spam Spam comments are an unfortunate reality of life on the internet, so you’ll need something to stop them. Akismet is a highly respected solution, and is free for personal users, but you need to sign up for a…
After this post you’ll have a working WordPress installation to play with! Make website unavailable from public internet A word of warning – the first thing that will happen once we’ve installed wordpress is you’ll create an admin user. You don’t want a hacker to swoop in a beat you…
WordPress is a very flexible platform, but there are a few key pieces that are essential for it to run: A websever We installed Apache in an earlier post so that’s covered, though we will need some extra modules. PHP This is the programming language WordPress is built in and…
Secure websites have become the norm for almost everything. They protect your privacy when viewing public information, and are an essential security component with any website you need to log into – without it, an attacker might be able to snoop on your password, or any information the website sends…