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…
Install Apache Now we’ll install the software that actually serves webpages to your browser. Install apache check it’s running: The output should look something like this: Press q if it won’t let you do anything else after showing this message. Let’s test it! On your client pc, open a web…
In this post I’ll show you a few of the post-installation tweaks that will give us a solid base for the rest of the configuration work. If you don’t have a cabled connection you’ll need to get wifi working – I’m not going to cover this, as there’s a huge…
Hi, This is the first in a series of blog posts that’ll take you through the setup of a Debain webserver running: WordPress for a blog like the one you’re reading now Nextcloud for online file storage like google drive or dropbox Collabora Online to make that so much more…
Ever wanted to copy and paste from a Linux machine you’re SSH’d into? Then read on! If you haven’t done already, take a look at my previous post to use wsltty to view the local WSL installation, which is then used to ssh into a remote box. For the purpose…
I’ve tried quite a few different setups for administering my various linux boxen from Windows, and this is currently my favourite: Mintty for WSL (aka WSLtty). Here’s how to set it up. Install Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL): Open Powershell as an administrator Enter this command:Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux When…
I don’t like the default for SpiderOak’s –purge-historical-versions command, which does this: This allows you to remove historical versions of files in your backup set according to the following schedule, which is to keep one version per hour for the last 24 hours, then one version per day for 30…