Setting up a Cron Job on GoDaddy
Set up GoDaddy Cron Job Log Into your GoDaddy.com account. Choose “My Hosting Account” from the “Hosting & Servers” menu on the top navigation bar. In the Hosting Account list, click the Open link...
View ArticleMac OS X Linux Stuff
Locations and commands on the Mac OS X vs any other Linux/Unix system are different. Below are some of the locations and commands I ran across in setting up my macbook as a webserver. apache2 is...
View ArticleUseful Linux Commands
I recently had to move a server and needed to set up another server. I’m a linux newbie so I needed to look up a lot of things. Below are some of the more common commands that I needed: (replace with...
View ArticleMAMP optimizations
“Optimizations” in the sense that you’ll have to do less work. This website gives some great tips on saving you some time using MAMP. http://www.sitepen.com/blog/2008/05/16/supercharge-mamp/ This site...
View ArticleHow to Remove CVS folders recursively in Terminal
In mac os x terminal (linux) you can navigate to the desired directory and run the following command to remove any specific file or folder. find . -name CVS -exec rm -rf {} \\; Basically a “find”...
View ArticleMAMP – MySQL can’t connect after OS X Crash
Problem I had my macbook open, it went to sleep and I couldn’t wake it up. After holding down the powerbutton for over 10 seconds, it turned on. Everything was fine until I tried to open the MAMP...
View ArticleHardening WordPress
I’ll be updating this post as I find more and better explanations to hardening wordpress. The more secure, the better. Some things to keep in mind when you are trying to secure your wordpress...
View ArticleWordPress Cron
A great way to take more control of your wp-cron and also slightly speed up wordpress is to disable cron and scheduled a cron job on your server to run wp-cron.php. You just need a server that...
View ArticleLoad SSH key at startup for Mac OS X
If your ssh key is not adding and you continuously have to keep doing ssh-add -l ~/.ssh/mykey then do the following to add it to your keychain: ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/mykey source:...
View ArticleWPEngine, Kinsta, or Cloudways – Which host is best?
Note: I have websites hosted at WPEngine, Kinsta, AND Cloudways. Links to these hosts are affiliate links because I believe all these options are quality hosting companies. The Players First off, all...
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