http://vpsbible.com/forums/forum/content-management Setup Unmanaged VPS for Linux Noobs! en-US Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:55:41 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://vpsbible.com/forums/search.php http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/upgrading-wordpress#post-2771 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:53:48 +0000 the_guv 2771@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>LOL (for all the wrong reasons!)</p> <p>Sure Marcus, there ain't no recycle bin with Tux ;)</p> <p>For a dev box, I highly recommend a virtual machine such as with virtualbox. You can take "snapshots" of known good configurations, meaning you can revert to whatever snapshot when you, er "sudo rm etc ..."!!</p> <p>... and it's free, though you may be greedy like me and want a shedload of RAM for running a few at once, (f'rinstance, all hacking each other!!) </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/upgrading-wordpress#post-2770 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:01:52 +0000 Marcus West 2770@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Hi Guv,</p> <p>Thanks.</p> <p>Yes, I got there in the end with the help of my server team before I got to see your reply</p> <p>I definitely followed the guides carefully...(you know as well as I do that this is about the only valid Nginx resource out there...a lot of them are gobbledygook)</p> <p>I think my mistake was trying to change permissions in wp-content rather than public...pretty simple stuff really but after a shell fork bomb and a server annhiliation, you get a bit jittery :)</p> <p>I wiped out a server the other day with an rm command... I'm getting myself a test environment to play in </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/upgrading-wordpress#post-2768 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:32:10 +0000 the_guv 2768@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Hi Marcus, </p> <p>This topic is covered here, in these forums, in some detail. However, for the benefit of any doubt, *prior to upgrading from the WP Dashboard (the easiest way but always backup first)*, at the terminal, logged into your server of course:-</p> <p>sudo chown -R www-data:webmasters /path/to/public</p> <p>And to revert to stricter, safer permissions after the update:-</p> <p>sudo chown -R USERNAME:webmasters /path/to/public</p> <p>... This is assuming you followed the guides here and, therefore, have the "webmasters" group properly set up. </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/upgrading-wordpress#post-2767 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:39:32 +0000 Marcus West 2767@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Can someone explain to me how to upgrade Wordpress?</p> <p>I tried using subversion, but got nowhere.</p> <p>I tried using the bashr command and got a shell fork.</p> <p>I tried isolating the two commands in the bashr file, to permit me to upgrade, and it kept causing an error....</p> <p>Would really help to have a bit more clarity on this...cheers </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/starting-php5-fpm-failed#post-2707 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 02:00:18 +0000 Joe Crocetta 2707@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p><a href="http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/php-fastcgi-and-php5-fpm-services" rel="nofollow">http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/php-fastcgi-and-php5-fpm-services</a></p> <p>Basically reconfirms not to worry about fastcgi when fpm is up and running. </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/starting-php5-fpm-failed#post-2706 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 01:57:44 +0000 Joe Crocetta 2706@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>I was guessing that they were competing process. And from what the_guv responded to me in one of my earlier posts I came away with the understanding that my guess was more or less correct.</p> <p>But now that I see why you are asking if they are competing I'm not so sure. Looks like we/I have to do more research on this... But that being said I haven't seen any loss in functionality since I stopped my fastcgi service.</p> <p>It's a good question. I'll post a link to the guv's answer to me in a minute. </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/starting-php5-fpm-failed#post-2705 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 22:40:06 +0000 david jeters 2705@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Thanks Joe,</p> <p>Do you know if /etc/init.d/php-fastcgi and /etc/init.d/php5-fpm are competing process/programs(or maybe I should processes that do the same thing?).</p> <p>I am asking this because the stack script has these four lines in it.</p> <p><code><br /> /etc/init.d/php-fastcgi stop<br /> /etc/init.d/php-fastcgi start<br /> /etc/init.d/php5-fpm stop<br /> /etc/init.d/php5-fpm start<br /> </code><br /> It seems that you have to stop one of them to get the other to work. Do you know if they do the same things? If so, I am wondering why the g man would start them both. </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/starting-php5-fpm-failed#post-2704 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:06:02 +0000 Joe Crocetta 2704@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Exactly what I was trying to explain to ivps. And you wrote it out perfectly. </p> <p>I believe that the fastcgi, and I could be wrong, is basically the same process as fpm. I believe fpm is like the latest and greatest version of fastcgi so you are not really losing anything you are just upgrading the old method... </p> <p>Well that's the way I see it ... fpm has been up for me and i've totally forgotten about fastcgi ... that was about 2 months ago .. everything seems fine since then. </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/starting-php5-fpm-failed#post-2703 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:59:48 +0000 david jeters 2703@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Here is what I have found. By going to /var/log $ php5-fpm.log. I have found the following error message.<br /> [ERROR] bind() for address '127.0.0.1:9000' failed: Address already in use (98). Next I found this article at <a href="http://serverfault.com/questions/308820/ubuntu-php-fpm-not-starting" rel="nofollow">http://serverfault.com/questions/308820/ubuntu-php-fpm-not-starting</a>. I therefore start looking for which process is running on that port by running <strong> lsof -i -P</strong>. I think shows me that php-cgi is taking up that port. I then run ps aux | grep php to find the process. Then I use the kill command to end the process. After that I run /etc/init.d/php5-fpm start and everything seems to work fine. Well we shall if everything works. Still this is no answer because I have to kill the process for fastcgi. </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/rebuilding-site#post-2695 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:43:44 +0000 Marcus West 2695@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>email me Joe</p> <p><a href="mailto:marcuswestgb@gmail.com">marcuswestgb@gmail.com</a> </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/rebuilding-site#post-2694 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:26:25 +0000 Joe Crocetta 2694@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>really? I'm looking to build something like hypebeast in the near future. Can you give me an outline of which sites to look at to get into wordpress site building? wish there was a way to post up privately.. I'd give you my email. </p> <p>How about workflow and site administration with WP? Can you give users access to publishing and reviewing and all that stuff? </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/rebuilding-site#post-2693 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:47:38 +0000 Marcus West 2693@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>i would have thought with great ease Joe </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/rebuilding-site#post-2692 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:01:09 +0000 Joe Crocetta 2692@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Sorry I can't speak to WP .. I'm doing more Drupal 6,7 implementations. WP is mostly for blogging correct? Can you build a magazine-style site like hypebeast.com with wordpress? </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/rebuilding-site#post-2691 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:28:22 +0000 Marcus West 2691@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Thanks Joe...appreciate the input</p> <p>Just been looking at ManageWP..looks good BTW...wonder what others think...e.g. vis a vis subversion / and also regarding security...</p> <p>which reminds me, I must buy Olly's WP security guide </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/rebuilding-site#post-2689 Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:32:28 +0000 Joe Crocetta 2689@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Well I think it's best if you have the same OS on both only because this cuts down the possibilities of something not working as expected. Less variability allows you to track down bugs faster. </p> <p>I am actually in the process of making them identical... I am using ubuntu 11.04 and apache on my dev machine and ubuntu 10.04 and nginx 1.06 on my linode.. at least my next step is to get my web servers in sync .. I don't think the Ubuntu 10 and 11 difference should matter that much. But it is a variable and would come into my mind if I had to troubleshoot.</p> <p>Then I can swing sites from dev to production without worrying too much.</p> <p>In your case I'm not sure if the OS difference is that profound, I don't think it should be, but in the end it is a difference, so when something doesn't go as expected you should keep that variable in mind as a possible suspect. </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/rebuilding-site#post-2688 Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:02:58 +0000 Marcus West 2688@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Do you set up the identical set up for your cloud server on a local server?</p> <p>If my cloud server is say Ubuntu, would it matter if my local server was, say, CentoS...</p> <p>? </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/rebuilding-site#post-2687 Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:40:30 +0000 Marcus West 2687@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Cheers Joe,</p> <p>Its all a bit of an unknown for me to be honest...I don't really know what a development server is.... </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/rebuilding-site#post-2686 Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:52:18 +0000 Joe Crocetta 2686@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>I think both ways you suggest are fine methods. </p> <p>Maybe even a combination of both ... first build it on a dev server, then ftp it up to production ... then make the switch from exiting to new. </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/rebuilding-site#post-2683 Sat, 22 Oct 2011 09:42:10 +0000 Marcus West 2683@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>I am having to rebuild my site because of a mishap.</p> <p>What would people suggest for a system of rebuilding your site in one place, whilst keeping your existing site up, and then deleting the old and transferring the new seamlessly?</p> <p>Is the best way to build the site in a virtual server environment somewhere(?) and then going into ftp and pulling out old files and dropping in new? </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/starting-php5-fpm-failed#post-2677 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:07:53 +0000 Ran 2677@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>I had the happening to me. Just reboot your server and you should be fine. </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/mysql-u-root-pmysqlpassword-e-db-error#post-2672 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:24:04 +0000 ivps 2672@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>PS: why aren't email notifications working?</p> <p>Is it to save on the bandwidth or something? </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/mysql-u-root-pmysqlpassword-e-db-error#post-2671 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:20:49 +0000 ivps 2671@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Joe, sorry, but you keep telling me what is happening, you are not telling me how to move on. You also keep telling me to take deep breaths and read... lol I am cool, it's just that the support is non existing.<br /> As it stands, you are not offering a solution really.</p> <p>I am used to PROPER tutorials, not half baked solutions. 2009 was 3 x years ago, and soon it will be 2012. </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/starting-php5-fpm-failed#post-2670 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:15:52 +0000 ivps 2670@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Joe, I followed this outdated tutorial carefully, 3 x times.</p> <p>I joined in because the Guv advertised it as the "VPSBible", for complete newbies... So far I am unimpressed.</p> <p>Now, instead of getting assistance, I am being told to Google... four days later. Classic.</p> <p>Most of my newbie questions are unanswered.</p> <p>I took a break from the VPSBible tutorials because the "support" is non existing.</p> <p>I guess we don't have the same expectations.</p> <p>Never mind, for $15, it's pretty much what I expected, hence you get what you pay for.</p> <p>It's easy to write tutorials "2 years ago", and then put the stuff/site on "autopilot".</p> <p>Saying that, I will never allow myself to charge people and turn their back on them. No way. </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/starting-php5-fpm-failed#post-2666 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:41:26 +0000 Joe Crocetta 2666@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Gracefully shutting down php5-fpm warning, no pid file found - php5-fpm is not running ? </p> <p>This means the process never started.<br /> So php5-fpm never started.</p> <p>1. Google how to check service processes.</p> <p>2. Examine your processes.</p> <p>3. When I was trying to correct php5-fpm i realized there was another php5 service running that was not allowing fpm to start. I believe it's like an older version of fpm. Anyhow you probably have to stop this service before you start fpm. </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/mysql-u-root-pmysqlpassword-e-db-error#post-2665 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:35:46 +0000 Joe Crocetta 2665@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>try:<br /> mysql -u root -p</p> <p>It will ask you for a password.</p> <p>You know ivps the_guv gives us a starting point .. everything he writes he tests .. and technology is changing everyday .. so if something doesn't seem right in the tutorials (even though most of the time they are correct) take a little time to google the topic .. this will force you to learn and retain that knowledge .. the_guvnr is very successful and this site has helped so many of us get started with vps .. Yes you are having some difficulty with the tutorials .. we all have had difficulties, but don't bash the_guv .. He gives us his best. </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/mysql-u-root-pmysqlpassword-e-db-error#post-2664 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:29:12 +0000 Joe Crocetta 2664@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>According to what you wrote, that is exactly what happened.</p> <p>You tried to start fpm but it failed.<br /> So it is not running.</p> <p>Try to stop a service that is not running ... it replies there is nothing to stop.</p> <p>Take a deep breath and read.<br /> It's not that complicated if you are relaxed. </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/starting-php5-fpm-failed#post-2663 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 03:49:03 +0000 ivps 2663@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Guv, is the support for this "VPSBible" product old news, and should I look elsewhere for support?</p> <p>Seriously, I have got far too many unanswered questions, and I am getting a CTS and RSI! </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/starting-php5-fpm-failed#post-2660 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:48:23 +0000 ivps 2660@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>/etc/init.d/php5-fpm stop<br /> Gracefully shutting down php5-fpm warning, no pid file found - php5-fpm is not running ?</p> <p>/etc/init.d/php5-fpm start<br /> Starting php5-fpm ................................... failed</p> <p>Can't get to the end of this tutorial!!!</p> <p>Just before i entered the last bits, I could see the Wordpress Login/install window, but I did not enter... I followed the tutorial. </p> <p>I deleted the disk, again... I tried 3 x times, and I am always getting the following error + cannot see the Wordpress admin anymore or any other page:</p> <p>/etc/init.d/php5-fpm stop<br /> Gracefully shutting down php5-fpm warning, no pid file found - php5-fpm is not running ?</p> <p>/etc/init.d/php5-fpm start<br /> Starting php5-fpm ................................... failed </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/mysql-u-root-pmysqlpassword-e-db-error#post-2659 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:22:43 +0000 ivps 2659@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Ok, for the MySQL database, I realised (guessed), that I needed the password for the root, I though t I had to create a new one...</p> <p>Now, I am at the end, and I am getting this error:</p> <p>/etc/init.d/php5-fpm start<br /> Starting php5-fpm ................................... failed</p> <p>/etc/init.d/php5-fpm stop<br /> Gracefully shutting down php5-fpm warning, no pid file found - php5-fpm is not running ? </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/mysql-u-root-pmysqlpassword-e-db-error#post-2658 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 07:52:11 +0000 ivps 2658@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Tutorial: Setup WordPress 3 for Single Sites on LEMP</p> <p>So I type this:<br /> mysql -u root -p$MYSQLPASSWORD -e "$db"<br /> and I am getting this:<br /> ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) </p>