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How to Install WordPress with OpenLiteSpeed on Ubuntu 18.04

April 4, 2023August 6, 2019 by Jeff Wilson

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure WordPress with OpenLiteSpeed on an Ubuntu 18.04 VPS.

OpenLiteSpeed is a lightweight, open-source HTTP server developed and copyrighted by LiteSpeed Technologies, Inc. It provides a user-friendly web interface and supports various operating systems, including Linux, Mac OS, SunOS, and FreeBSD. WordPress is the most popular content management system, or CMS, available on the internet. With a massive community, great documentation, countless themes, and a large choice of plugins, you can make a website about almost anything using WordPress. Let’s begin with the installation.

How to Install WordPress with LAMP Stack on Ubuntu 18.04

December 13, 2022January 28, 2019 by Jeff Wilson

WordPress is the world’s leading content management system. Used by tens of millions of web pages and internet creators alike, WordPress is the backbone of most blogs and news outlets. Webpage performance with WordPress is also typically one of the fastest available. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install WordPress with LAMP stack on Ubuntu 18.04.

How to Configure WordPress to use a Remote Database

June 3, 2022July 18, 2018 by Jeff Wilson

WordPress is the most popular content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. When your WordPress CMS grows in traffic and you have outgrown your current server resources, a professional solution is to host your database on a separate database server. With this solution, you can optimize your database and your web server independently and both servers can grown on it’s own machine. In this tutorial we will guide you on how to configure WordPress to use a remote database, on a CentOS 7 based VPS.

How to (Safely) Add Code to functions.php in WordPress

October 4, 2022July 17, 2018 by Jeff Wilson

Scouring the Internet for solutions to WordPress problems will inevitably bring you to sites that ask you to insert some piece of code or the other into functions.php. If you’re new to WordPress, this can be a confusing thing. By default, WordPress doesn’t have any obvious interface for you to insert code. And besides…copy-pasting stuff into your installation is dangerous. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to safely install code into WordPress’s functions.php file. Let’s go.

How To Install WordPress with LAMP Stack on Ubuntu 16.04

June 3, 2022July 16, 2018 by Jeff Wilson

WordPress is one of the world’s most popular content management systems (CMS). It is a free and open-source platform, which is used by millions of people for running blogs, business websites, e-commerce stores and much more.

It is a powerful and very easy to use website creation tool. With a large variety of plugins and themes to choose from, it provides very high customization options and almost endless possibilities for you to develop and make a unique, one of a kind website.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install the latest WordPress version on your Ubuntu 16.04 VPS. We will also show you how to install and configure a fully functional LAMP stack, consisting of Ubuntu 16.04 operating system, Apache web server, MySQL database server and PHP 7. Let’s get started.

What Is WordPress XML-RPC and How to Stop an Attack

April 5, 2023July 3, 2018 by Jeff Wilson

xml-rpc server accepts post requests only

XML-RPC is a remote procedure call protocol that allows anyone to interact with your WordPress website remotely. In other words, it’s a way to manage your site without having to log in manually via the standard “wp-login.php” page. It’s widely used by plugins, most famously by Automattic’s own Jetpack plugin. These days, however, the word “XML-RPC” has gotten a bad name. In this tutorial, we will explain what is WordPress XML-RPC and how to stop an XML-RPC attack on your WordPress website.

How to Enable GZIP Compression in WordPress

June 3, 2022June 21, 2018 by Jeff Wilson

One of the first solutions to achieve faster load times of your WordPress CMS is to decrease the size of your page.The simplest method to reduce the size of your website, and improve the time to first render of your web pages, is to enable GZIP compression. Enabling GZIP compression on your server can significantly reduce the amount of time to download the requested resource. Today we will show you how to enable GZIP compression on WordPress.

How to Fix the 502 Bad Gateway Error in WordPress

June 3, 2022June 5, 2018 by Jeff Wilson

Have you ever seen the very annoying and frustrating 502 bad gateway error on a WordPress site? Yes, I think we all have encountered the issue. Do you know what 502 bad gateway error means? Do you know how to solve the issue? In this blog post, we will provide you with detailed information about the 502 Bad Gateway Error in WordPress, and tell you how to troubleshoot the 502 Bad Gateway Error in WordPress as well.