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Nginx failing to reload - how to track down why?

Hi I've had my Nginx server running great on Ubuntu server 12.04 for a while. I've been gradually bolting on various bits, and got as far as optimising load times on my wordpress page. After making ...
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Delete all files whose filenames contain a particular string?

I changed my wordpress theme. The older one created so much images on server. My new theme doesnt need them, so I want to remove all. How can I do that? For example: Default image: ...
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How to update/upgrade PHP 7.2 to latest version safely?

I am running a WordPress website over LEMP stack server on Ubuntu 18.04 on DigitalOcean. WordPress is recommending me to update my PHP to the latest version. I am running PHP 7.2.17; Please tell me ...
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How to Setup FTP to use in locally hosted wordpress

I have installed wordpress on my ubuntu 10.10 desktop edition and I am trying to install plugin from the browser (I know I can drop it to the wp-content/plugin but I want to do it via the web browser ...
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Giving ownership of the directory to the apache user? [duplicate]

I have installed wordpress on LAMP. As I am new one to Ubuntu. So, I Used this online tutorial How to install wordpress on ubuntu manually But when I am trying to give ownership of the directory to ...
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chown: changing ownership of `...': Operation not permitted

I'm trying to install Wordpress using the following installations. However, when I attempt to open the browser to set up Wordpress, I get an error that there is a problem establishing a database ...
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Is it possible to restore a mysql database from the /var/lib/mysql/database folder?

Due to a nightmare that somehow became real, my mysql installation ended up being reinstalled. I couldn't start mysql before the reinstall, so I couldn't use mysqldump to do a proper backup. I did ...
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What's the recommended way to install Wordpress from packages on a server?

I've got a LAMP server available from http://91.xxx.xx.xx/ (just an example IP address), and I'd like to install Wordpress there. I've gone as far as doing a simple sudo apt-get install wordpress to ...
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WordPress Installation Failed

I am trying to install Wordpress on Lubuntu. I followed the instructions here. Including PHP Apache and MySQL setups. Apache and MySQL appear to be running fine. However, when I go to http://...
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deploy multiple wordpress sites with juju

This may seem like an obvious question, but can you deploy multiple (distinct) wordpress sites with their own databases etc? But using a single deployment? So not dedicated vm's for each sites ...
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Multiple deployments, one machine, how to expose them all

In juju, if you were to create multiple wordpress (or any other) deployments on the same machine, how would you set that up such that all of those sites could be simultaneously exposed while being ...
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local wordpress installation, plugin installation and file permissions

I have a local wordpress installation and got everything working, until I tried to install a new plugin. Trying to activate the plugin, wordpress asked me for FTP connection information, which I ...
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Wordpress can't upload files

I have installed LAMP stack and Wordpress on a local apache2 server using the tutorials here- https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-apache-mysql-php-lamp-stack-on-...
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Why do I get 404 on LAMP Permalinks (Using wordpress)

I have been working on a website on an ubuntu server (amazone) and I get 404s entering pages. I'll give all the information I can regarding the problem. On WordPress Refresh page: I followed ...
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How do I edit php.ini in a docker container?

So I'm running the wordpress docker container and I want to increase the upload file size limit set in php.ini. My problem is I can't find that file anywhere. I installed the container with a docker-...
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Upgraded Ubuntu to 16.04, now Wordpress updates don't work

I had my Ubuntu 15.10 system working just fine, and Wordpress updates happened over ssh. But when I upgraded Ubuntu to 16.04, the switch to php7.0 broke Wordpress updates. At first it was prompting ...
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Postfix won't transfer WordPress contact form emails to my Gmail account

In Ubuntu 16.04 VPS with LEMP in DigitalOcean I have a WordPress web site that has a contact form I created with Contact Form 7 (CF7). My problem I have a problem transferring emails from my ...
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allow wordpress to write to files

I have been having problems recently with an Ubuntu 16.04 x64 VPS when trying to get a web server up and running. I am using apache2 as the web server as I only really have experience in that - will ...
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How to give apache2 permission to write and read files?

When I installed Wordpress in my Ubuntu 12.04 I found that Wordpress itself not write wp.config file. He tell me to copy this into wp.config file. Look Like wordpress not able to write the files. ...
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How to undo or set back to default chmod -R 755? [closed]

What I was trying to do is installing "wordpress" in my localhost on (ubuntu 14.04) i.e my path for localhost is " home/deepak/php " Now what i did is this in terminal: sudo chown -R www-data:www-...
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Chrome mistakenly downloads localhost/wordpress pages, but Firefox doesn't

I have Wordpress installed at http://localhost/wordpress When I try and view a page in Chrome, it downloads the PHP file rather than showing the page. When I view in Firefox, everything works fine. ...
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Apache - Allow access to user home directories

I've been stuck with this problem for a week now, browsing through various websites, I just can't seem to make this work. I have Apache2 installed and a Wordpress website, located in a user's folder ...
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Destroying service before removing the relation causes both services to hang at dying

I deployed wordpress and mysql and add relation between wordpress and mysql. I try to destroy wordpress before removing the relation between wordpress and mysql. Now, both services are hanging at ...
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juju wordpress open-ports: []

testing juju from the ppa on aws on precise. Environment successfully bootstrapped, mysql and wordpress unit started, db relationship successfully added. On exposure of wordpress I have no open ports ...
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agent-state-info: 'hook failed: "config-changed" deploy wordpress using juju

I have one virtual machine on Windows Azure. I have installed juju inside my virtual machine. I want to deploy wordpress on my vm. I'm run on 64 bit machine I've read this blog about step by step how ...
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How to set up a local Wordpress site?

I want to create a site based on Wordpress that is only accessible from my own machine (localhost). In other words, I do not want my computer to be a server. I just want it to have all the files ...
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libapache2-mod-php7.2 Not working

I'm using Wordpress, but then it stopped working. I then firgured out that it had something to do with apache2. I got that working but now when I get to the webpage, instead of executing the php file, ...
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How to backup a whole wordpress site?

How to backup a whole wordpress site from ubuntu? There is a program like WinSCP to use it for backup, or it is not necessary?
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I can't get wordpress on working on a apache! Please help!

I have been trying and Googling all week to get wordpress up and running on an Apache2 virtual host. It serves the Apache default page when I type localhost in the browser but when I type in localhost/...
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Juju wordpress charm doesn't update from git

I have set the wp-config string to my git repo. It gets everything fine but the charm is not picking up changes. I make changes to my local copy of the wp-content then push it to my git remote repo ...
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wordpress mysql physical files .MYD not in /var/lib/mysql/dbname

I installed wordpress on my home server (multisite install + varnish cache). Now I'm looking into /var/lib/mysql/dbname to recover the mysql files, and here is what I find : All the important tables ...
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Permissions problem when upgrading Wordpress to 3.2 through the admin interface

I'm using 10.04 server I'm trying to upgrade Wordpress through the admin interface. I have a vsftpd server running and it is accepting local connections. For my FTP credentials I supplied the ...
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I'm getting an error with nginx, php and wordpress - 502 Bad Gateway

Using the sample recipe I am deploying a WordPress solution on EC2: juju bootstrap --constraints "instance-type=t1.micro" juju set-constraints instance-type=t1.micro juju debug-log juju deploy mysql ...
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How do I tune WordPress to make my site more responsive?

I have a Linode that has Ubuntu loaded and am hosting a WordPress site. I would like to optimize my site so that I no longer get Out of Memory errors like the following: Killed process 16660 (...
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How do I install bitnami Wordpress?

How do I install Bitnami Wordpress after downloading it? I was a Windows User, and installing the Wordpress installer on Xampp is easy, just double click the installer and next until finished.
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Juju MySQL for WordPress with Percona

Is there any benefit in using Percona as a distro for WordPress? Does it actually allow me to use Extradb or is it still limited to Innobd?
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How to use the Wordpress Juju charm to add existing database content

I've been looking at the Wordpress juju charm and I'd like to use it to create instances of developer.ubuntu.com for testing and design purposes. I believe I can use it as-is, apart from one bit: the ...
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WordPress asks for FTP credentials, even though owner of the whole /var/www is www-data

I'm trying to get WordPress to run on my local Ubuntu 12.10 installation. When I try to install themes/plugins, it asks me for FTP credentials. I've been trying to get this to work for 2 days now. ...
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WordPress and Ubuntu, www-data and ubuntu for FTP [duplicate]

I posted this in stackoverflow but no one can give me an answer. ... I'm using Amazon EC2. I'm on Ubuntu 16.04. I'm also using Apache 2. I have WordPress installed on my server. I do: chown -R ...
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Wordpress deployed with JUJU using LXC fail

When I deploy the wordpress and mysql charms with juju on my maas controller like so: juju deploy --to lxc:0 wordpress juju deploy --to lxc:0 mysql juju add-relation wordpress:db mysql:db --debug ...
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Extremely slow upload speeds in nautilus with FTP [closed]

I was at home uploading a WP site and it's maxing at 4.2kb. I did a speed test and im getting ~1MB upload (my home ISP caps it out at that). I uploaded a 5MB file via Chrome, to test, and it uploaded ...
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SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol when trying to access HTTPS URL

While trying to create a staging environment for my WORDPRESS website, I am not quite able to setup the HTTPS configuration. I copied the wordpress folder and backed up Mysql database and was able to ...
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Setting up SFTP to log in to server with Filezilla and access files outside my home directory

I have an ec2 instance on AWS which already installed a few Wordpress-es in it. I want to set things up to let more people handle their own projects, with me also being able to go into the server ...
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Unable to create directory wp-content/uploads/2016/09. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

I am facing this issue while uploading a theme.I have tried almost all the solutions given in forums of changing permissions and all.Still the issue hasn't been resolved.I need to make the website in ...
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Can't Deploy Wordpress with juju

Successfully deployed mysql on machine 0, and forced deployment of wordpress on the same machine, i.e., juju deploy --to 0 -repository:/xxxx local:trusty:/wordpress. juju status shows installation ...
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Why is my WordPress installation unable to create a directory?

I am a new user of Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit and I want to test WordPress on my local PC installation. I've only installed LAMP and the latest version of WordPress for now. Further actions were creating a ...
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Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu) Server at Port 443 for wordpress

I'm facing an error in Wordpress after installing Let's encrypt certificate in AWS on Ubuntu 18.04. How to fix this issue?
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Installing Wordpress on 14.04 - Apache2 Ubuntu Default Page appearing

I went through the Wordpress installation process and I'm getting the Apache2 Ubuntu Default Page when I go to my ip. What did I do wrong? Wordpress is installed in /var/www/html. My URL is dancer.ly ...
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How to change file permissions and then revert them back

I have a Wordpress website on my Ubuntu Server, and in order to change the theme, I need to set the file permissions. As I have read, it is unwise to permanently set the permissions to write for ...
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Best practive for wordpress updates

I'm using Ubuntu Server 14.04.2 LTS and hosting wordpress on it. I installed it from the packages via apt-get. Now wordpress complains almost every day about available updates per mail and that an ...
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