If you use WordPress for a Company or other Organisations, you want perhaps customize the Meta Data Tags on Posts. Most Sites on Net describe to hide all metadata, BUT this can run your CMS into Problems on Ranking, cause the Search Engines can’t pull the date of a Post. If not current it’s pushed […]
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Apache: Count Visits on Console
If you use a Webserver like Apache, you can use a small script to Analyse your Logs. Create a analyse-web.sh Script with: $sudo nano /home/user/analyse-web.sh insert: #!/bin/bash cat /var/log/apache2/access.log | awk '{ print $1 }' | sort | uniq -c exit 0 System Output: 1573 www.domain2.de 3568 www.domain3.de .. If you change the “$1” to […]
Apache: Analyse Logs Spam Bots
If you admin a Apache Webserver, you see often weekly thousand of visits a day on your Blogs. Background: These are no real users, this visits are made by Spam Bots in my Logs like Xovi.de or xovibot.net Bots! On info pages this Company says Admins should disallow crawl by robots.txt, but they IGNORE the settings! […]
Rsync: Performance NFS Boost
If you use two Linux Servers with NFS Shares connect over Gigabit Interfaces for Backups, you perhaps remark performance problems on using rsync. It does often pause transmissions or reach only a rate of 32Mb/s. That’s bad and waste time and energy. Background: After some Tests of running Backups with single files and compressed big […]
Ubuntu: Deja-Dup Backup Freeze Desktop
If you use Ubuntu Desktop 16.10 you will run sometimes into freezes of the Desktop with a Default Setup. Background: Theres a known Bug of the Deja-Dup Backup Service which is started by Cron. The Service take 100% Ram and 100% CPU usage. This did my PC with 16GB Ram too! Only HARD RESET helps […]
WordPress: Prevent Copyright Violation
If you are a Hobby Blogger like me, you should ALWAYS take Snapshots for your Blog with your OWN Camera! For “non professional” use you can take the cheapest Camera or reuse old Smartphones of the Family. Resolution at VGA Mode (640×480/800×600 less 250kb) is more enough than you need. Faster you can’t save or […]
WordPress: Change Word on all content sites with mysql
If you run a WordPress Blog or other CMS with MySQL Backend you can easy change one same word or expression on all content sites on the fly Do a mysqldump at first of the current database $ mysqldump -u username -p dbname > dbbackup.sql Login to the MySQL server Console Switch to the Database […]
FreeBSD: Monitor svn Updates
If you use the svn subversion tool to update source tree or ports tree, you want to have a possibility to look back what was pulled, pushed and droped you can use a Log File to monitor the update scripts. This helps if you temporarily log out the Terminal Sessions for a Coffee break. Howto: […]
FreeBSD: Current Version port upgrade fails with “portsnap extract” bug
If you use the current “head” Version (Release 12) of FreeBSD with a svn updated /usr/src path you could run into errors after updating the OS via buildworld from sources. There’s a bug ahead Revision “r314099” at the “portsnap” lib that will stop on extracting the ports.tgz to /usr/ports! Solution: Pull again sources to /usr/src […]
WordPress: Monitor the Size of the MYSQL Database
If you use WordPress or a other Blog Software with a MySQL Database over years it is useful to do some things regularly: Check the Database Size weekly, that no Skript Kid has found a Backdoor and fills up the Database silent Purge Database Caches with default maintenance tools of the Software Dont forget to […]
Centos: Release 5 now “end of life”
On 2017, March 31th the official Release End of Version 5 is reached. This also touches SME Server Version 8.1. If you use this you must now upgrade the Webserver to the next Version. Checkout which last version offers latest Options like PHP7, MYSQL 6 ..more Checkout that you current Content PHP Kits Support the […]
WordPress: Why less plugins is more?
WordPress is a well known Blogging Platform to publish your Content to the world. But after some years of analysing of my Webserver Logs i remarked that a lot of used plugins produces more errors on inside linking than i would like to have. I could not explain why the Search Engines run into Errors […]