http://vpsbible.com/forums/forum/content-management Setup Unmanaged VPS for Linux Noobs! en-US Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:43:12 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://vpsbible.com/forums/search.php 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-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/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/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> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/anyone-using-froxlor#post-2640 Tue, 04 Oct 2011 01:04:00 +0000 ivps 2640@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Would be interested to know if anyone is using it with nginx, and what does it do exactly (in non techie words), is something like froxlor useful or can we do without it? Thanks </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/updating-wp-but-missing-svn#post-2398 Wed, 06 Jul 2011 04:02:02 +0000 Dan Ahn 2398@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>I've installed wordpress using the wp stack before, and I'm trying to update via subversion and when I put svn, it tells me bash: svn: command not found</p> <p>Any idea? Thanks </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/wp-super-cache-empty-directories-in-lemp-stack#post-2479 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 21:25:04 +0000 Erik Lauraeus 2479@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Anyone else experiensed the empty directories in WP Super Cache when run under LEMP wordpress network setup?</p> <p>Wordpress 3.2.1 with domain mapping enabled. </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/wpmu-domain-mapping#post-457 Fri, 09 Apr 2010 23:50:29 +0000 Anonymous 457@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Hi folks! I am wondering whether any of u is using "Donncha’s Domain Mapping plugin" with a WPMU+nginx install. The set-up seems quite simple but i just don't seem to get mine working. </p> <p>I have set up a CName record at domain registrar for the server domain on which WPMU is installed (say domain.com). I then get blog owners to create CName records for their new domain to point to WPMU domain.com (and also doing the same in their site's (subdomain.domain.com) backend. </p> <p>Any help appreciated. </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/wp-wnginx-permalink-mod-rewrites#post-2445 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:22:38 +0000 Paul 2445@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Apologies if this is answered elsewhere, but my head is struggling to get around this on WP Permalink settings page:</p> <p>If your .htaccess file were writable, we could do this automatically, but it isn’t so these are the mod_rewrite rules you should have in your .htaccess file. Click in the field and press CTRL + a to select all.</p> <p>&lt;IfModule mod_rewrite.c&gt; RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] &lt;/IfModule&gt;</p> <p>Am I correct to assume I just need to add something to /usr/local/nginx/sites-available/mysite.tld? And if so, can anyone help me with how to go about converting those rules for Nginx please?</p> <p>Thanks in advance </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/wp-updates#post-2417 Sun, 10 Jul 2011 10:53:47 +0000 Marcus West 2417@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Just wondering how to perform a WP Update through the command line.</p> <p>Tried it in Cyberduck but it is complicated with poor instructional resources </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/remove-restrictions-on-nginx-user#post-1942 Sat, 12 Feb 2011 23:47:44 +0000 jacquelinek 1942@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Can anyone tell me if there is a way to remove the restrictions on the Nginx user?</p> <p>The bash script under "WP Upgrades and Plugin Installs Assistance" makes my server go haywire. Tried it twice. Edited the 2 variables, added it to the bash file, ebrcupdate and BOOM!!! the CLI loops with errors indefinitely with no way to escape. I had to shutdown and restore a backup both times. Should I have done something else with the bash file?</p> <p>On top of that I do not choose to use WP Super Cache. I am using W 3 Total Cache. It needs to be able to write to the cache on an ongoing basis, and cannot do so with the draconian restrctions currently in place. </p> <p>Please tell me how to remove them. Thank you.</p> <p>P. S. I am not on Linode I am on VPS.net. I had to set up my own vhost file and rewrite includes to get my domains working. </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/wordpress-security#post-2359 Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:53:56 +0000 Marcus West 2359@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Hi Olly,</p> <p>How can we configure our security keys when we are creating the MYSQL database for Wordpress?</p> <p>Cheers<br /> Marcus </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/small-error#post-2346 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:05:15 +0000 Paul 2346@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>I'm so pleased - well, slightly anyway - found a bug in your code, guv! There's an errant forward slash in the nginx restart code on the "Setup Drupal on Nginx, Caching with Pretty Links" tutorial.<br /> Considering I knew no Linux whatsoever a couple of weeks ago I offer this small nugget as a humble token of my appreciation for my awakening. ;) </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/nginx-rewrite-for-ipb#post-2287 Sat, 18 Jun 2011 06:18:21 +0000 J Y 2287@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>IPBoard requires .htaccess with the following for friendly URLs</p> <pre><code>&lt;IfModule mod_rewrite.c&gt; Options -MultiViews RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /forum/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /forum/index.php [L] &lt;/IfModule&gt;</code></pre> <p>I tried a suggestion I found on this page: <a href="http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=892228" rel="nofollow">http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=892228</a></p> <pre><code>location /forum/ { index index.php; try_files $uri $uri/ /forum/index.php?q=$uri; }</code></pre> <p>This semi-works but images no longer load (also experienced by the author on that page). Not sure what the issue is. Help? </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/nginx-and-w3-total-cache#post-1951 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 07:44:27 +0000 derek 1951@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>I'm using the development version of W3 Total Cache, which has added nginx support. </p> <p>Basically, it wants to write to an nginx.conf in the www root directory. Given that nginx (setup via your tutorials) isn't looking there for anything, these parameters are ignored. </p> <p>So my question is whether I should manually add the rewrite rules to the domain specific nginx config file, add the www root directory as a symlink in the main nginx.conf, or just move the domain specific nginx file over to the www root and let w3 total cache automatically write to it when it needs to (minification, header expires, etc).</p> <p>Are any of these methods preferable? Is there a security concern putting an nginx.conf in the www root directory? Thanks.</p> <p>Here's an example of the code it wants to add to nginx.conf for browser caching:</p> <p>location ~ \.(css|js)$ {<br /> expires 86400s;<br /> add_header Pragma "public";<br /> add_header Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate";<br /> add_header X-Powered-By "W3 Total Cache/0.9.1.4b";<br /> } </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/drupal-6-recommendations#post-926 Sat, 05 Jun 2010 02:44:11 +0000 Pat Heyman 926@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>If you plan on using Drupal 6 (because it has a huge number of functional modules), you'll want to run PHP 5.2 instead of 5.3. If you haven't already installed 5.3, just replace the 5.3 references with 5.2 latest version, and you'll be fine.</p> <p>If you've already installed PHP5.3, you can install PHP 5.2 alongside it. Just use --with-prefix to install PHP 5.2 into a specific location. (actually, that's a good idea for mysql and nginx as well, because you can install multiple versions side by side for testing when upgrading.</p> <p>Also mysqlnd does not work with 5.2, so you have to specify the path to mysql_config.</p> <p>Finally, if you install suhosin or xcache, just change<br /> 1. phpize to /fullpath/to/5.2/phpize<br /> 2. ./configure to ./configure --with-php-config=/path/to/5.2/php-config</p> <p>One other thing is that by default, php will overwrite the /etc/init.d/php-fpm file, so you might want to back it up first </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/cannot-upgrade-to-wp-301#post-1614 Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:21:27 +0000 Baldwin 1614@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>After I enable wpupgrade I can easly update all the themes and plugins but I cannot upgrade WP 3.0 to 3.0.1.</p> <p>I am getting this error: Could not copy file.: /home/USERNAME/public_html/DOMAIN.com/public/wp-app.php</p> <p>When I go back to wpsafe it always asks me for my sftp password and I tried to do upgrade through this method but verification always fails. </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/problem-uploading-wordpress-data#post-1896 Sat, 05 Feb 2011 01:51:30 +0000 derek 1896@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Hi. I'm at the step of transferring my data from my current wordpress install to my new one. When I go to import the file, it times out about when I hit 60% upload and then I get an error page. When I hit refresh, I get this error message:</p> <p>Sorry, there has been an error.</p> <p>File is empty. Please upload something more substantial. This error could also be caused by uploads being disabled in your php.ini or by post_max_size being defined as smaller than upload_max_filesize in php.ini.</p> <p>Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/new-theme-in-wordpress-causes-504-gateway-time-out#post-1826 Sun, 16 Jan 2011 09:54:46 +0000 Joe 1826@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Hey Guv, I'm having a really strange problem in Wordpress. When I activate a new theme it causes a 504 Gateway Time-out. Other themes still work. Any ideas on where I could start to troubleshoot this or what may by wrong? </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/lemp-or-lamp-that-is-a-question#post-1820 Sat, 15 Jan 2011 06:10:32 +0000 mitty2005 1820@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Good evening folks.<br /> I was very enthusiastic about Nginx untill I found out that it has a different mod_rewrite equivelent compared to Apache. That is a big problem for me due to fact that I primarily use wordpress with few unique plugins that use .htaccess excessively.<br /> So I was wondering if there is any module or hack to enable all the wp plugins still work ,or make Nginx read .htaccess </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/control-panel-froxlor#post-1758 Sun, 26 Dec 2010 22:54:46 +0000 Michael Savino 1758@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Hey guys some of you might want a somewhat panel like CPanel and all that. I just came across Froxlor it is a fork of SysCP and it uses Apache, Lighttpd, AND Nginx as a selectable webserver! Just thought i'd share the love and let you all know. :)</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.froxlor.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.froxlor.org</a> </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/wp-super-cache-and-wp-minify#post-1739 Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:07:32 +0000 famfam 1739@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Somebody know how to do WP Minify works with Nginx? </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/change-upload-size-in-drupal#post-1695 Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:23:02 +0000 Jordan Hinkle 1695@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>I was wondering if anyone knew how to do this? I have been pulling my hair out trying to figure this out. I put client_max_body_size 4M;<br /> client_body_buffer_size 128k;</p> <p>in my /opt/nginx/conf/nginx.conf but to no avail. </p> <p>Thoughts anyone? </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/wordpress-3-sub-sites-with-www-vhost#post-1494 Tue, 21 Sep 2010 06:08:22 +0000 J Y 1494@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>The current writeup for Wordpress Sub-Sites sets the Server Name in the vhost as someDomain.com</p> <p>Unfortunately, I want it to go to <a href="http://www.somedomain.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.somedomain.com</a></p> <p>Can someone tell me what I need to do with the vhost to achieve this? </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/wp-super-cache-problem#post-1372 Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:10:53 +0000 Dan Ahn 1372@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>When I do wpupgrade, I'm able to activate the plugin through its setting, but when I click again on the setting page, it goes back to OFF and wouldn't stay enabled. </p> <p>When I do wpsafe back, it won't let me access the plugin's setting page saying that the folder isn't writable</p> <p>I followed the tutorial step by step and even tried doing another fresh install and yet again, same problem.</p> <p>Thank you </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/wordpress-db-restore-not-working-cant-login#post-1587 Mon, 18 Oct 2010 07:42:25 +0000 Javier Pastor 1587@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>I've got an account in Linode to host a blog. I had Ubuntu+Cheroke+WordPress on it and it has had several problems (504 Gateway timeouts), so I tried to apply some of your methods to reinstall everything.</p> <p>I followed two of your guides. This one to setup a LEMP system (<a href="http://bit.ly/b53Jsd" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/b53Jsd</a>) and this one (<a href="http://bit.ly/cVFz6B" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/cVFz6B</a>) to setup the WordPress CMS.</p> <p>Both of them with the scripts modified as shown on these guides.</p> <p>The new wordpress blog works as expected, but obviously with no posts.</p> <p>And here comes the problem. I've made a backup of my 'old' wordpress database with the typical</p> <p>mysqldump --add-drop-table -p MYDB &gt; mydb-backup.sql</p> <p>And when I try to restore that DB into my new WordPress system (on the second configuration profile, with NginX) <strong>the blog doesn't load</strong> (it shows a blank page) but, what is even worse, <strong>I even can't login as admin</strong>. </p> <p>I use the same credentials I used on my 'old' Wordpress site (that should be inherited by the new one), by nothing works. I even try the 'Forgot your password?', but it never sends an email with a new one.</p> <p>I've copied all the wp-content directory from the old to the new WordPress installation, I've tried to set user:group to www-data:www-data and USERNAME:www-data (my vpsUserName), but nothing works: it's impossible to login. </p> <p>I'm desperate :( </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/buying-new-linode#post-1575 Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:25:31 +0000 Anonymous 1575@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>I am new here, and I am new to Linus and web servers. I want to benefit from vpsBible. Also, I want help out vpsBible.</p> <p>1) I need to get a link here so that I can click on it when buying my new Linode</p> <p>2)the_guv, please send me an email (I have a question about subscription) </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/cant-upload-in-wordpress#post-1516 Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:40:02 +0000 Simon 1516@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Hi </p> <p>I've followed the script for installing WordPress, but I can't upload files:</p> <p>"The uploaded file could not be moved to /home/myname/public_html/mydomain.com/public/wp-content/uploads."</p> <p>I created the uploads folder manualyl so maybe the permissions are wrong?</p> <p>Any chance the script could be amended so it automatically creates the wp-content/uploads folder with correct permissions?</p> <p>I also notice the script doesn't create the salts in wp-config.php - it would be a really welcome addition if it did this!</p> <p>Cheers<br /> Simon </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/cannot-install-drupal-got-stuck-on-database-configuration-page#post-1560 Fri, 08 Oct 2010 04:07:32 +0000 John Qin 1560@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>I entered all my database info on the DB configuration page. click on "save and continue", page refreshed but nothing happened. still on the same page and there's no error message. I checked my database, its empty, tables didn't get created.</p> <p>I couldn't figure out what the problem is. then I did a test, enter the wrong password this time, got error message saying "cannot connect to the database".</p> <p>first time, i test it, theres no error message, I believe it connects to the database successfully. please help me to figure out why theres no tables in the Database. I am using "root", it has full privileges. </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/another-wordpress-blogs-on-sub-directory#post-1467 Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:22:09 +0000 Tharindu Kumara 1467@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Hello, first of all I would like to thank you for this great tutorials. </p> <p>I was moving my site from shared to vps and followed all your tutorials. I was running 2 blogs one is on root and other one is on sud directory</p> <p>Ex -<br /> max-musix.com<br /> max-musix.com\p*rn</p> <p>So I setup two blogs with nginx, max-musix.com is working fine but max-musix.com\p*rn is generating 404 error on single post pages. and i changed the permalink structure to Default now its working.</p> <p>It will be great if you can suggest me how to get my old permalink structure back.</p> <p>Thanks! </p>