I was testing the WP Mail SMTP plugin to send emails in WordPress via SMTP servers but when it was trying to connect to the remote SMTP server, it kept getting error “Connection refused”. So I tried: telnet smtp.xxxx.com 587 To test the connection. Turned out my own server is preventing the outgoing request because …
For example, a command like this could run a few days if there are so many images: tar zcf xxxx.images.tgz * So it’s best to put it in background when started, by nohup: nohup tar zcf xxxx.images.tgz * > nohup.log 2>&1 &
If you have multiple servers you’d probably need rsync to transfer files among servers via SSH. An error like this, however, will occur when CSF protects the servers against malicious SSH connection attempts: The solution is very simple. Just whitelist each server IP on the other server and vice versa: Wherein 1.1.1.1 is the other …
Just use this and the WGET command will start crawling the target site and download certain levels of pages from the starting URL, including all its assets such as images or CSS files. wget -k -K -E -r -l 1 -p -N -F –convert-links -H -Dcdn.shopify.com,v.shopify.com,www.yoursite.com,your-site.myshopify.com –restrict-file-names=windows https://www.yoursite.com/ The -D option specifies all the hosts …
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Many’s the time after you have uploaded some PHP script to your server and point the web browser to the address it gives 500 Internet Server Error. If you have suPHP installed this is very likely because the uploaded PHP script (files and directories) have wrong permissions set to them. With regards to Linux permissions, …
When I ssh into my Debian Squeeze server and start up tail -f to watch a log file or anything else which uses ctrl-c to exit/stop, ctrl-c does not work. It prints the ^C character on screen and just keeps right on going. Is there a setting somewhere that can be tweaked or maybe a …
To delete all content in any directory, including all sub-directories and files, I’ve been using this: rm -rf somedir/* If it is to delete all content of the current directory: rm -rf * However, it turns out ‘rm -rf’ doesn’t remove hidden files such as .htaccess (Files with a name starting with a dot are …
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The ‘find’ command in Linux systems searches through a directory and return files that satisfy certain criteria. For instance, to find a file that contains the string ‘needle text’ in the ‘mydocs’ directory: find mydocs -type f -exec grep -l “needle text” {} \; The problem of this approach is that it would search through ALL files …
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PHP has a stat() function that returns an array containing the meta information of a file such as owner, size, time of last access, last modification or last change. It’s basically the stat command under Linux that returns and shows the file system meta information of any file or directory: stat myfile.txt Which returns: File: …
Funny I should use “zipped” for an RAR compressed package. Anyway, you can easily zip or unzip a zip file or tar compress a package, but how does one do it with an RAR file? WinRAR is well distributed across all Windows systems. But on Linux, you have to first install the command package rar. …
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Chances are you have a bunch of different hosts that are housing your website files, for the sake of data safety (never put all eggs in a single basket) and possibly some SEO advantage. If that is the case, you will infrequently come to the need to move some files from one host server to …
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One of the utility commands of Linux that you should know in the first day of your Linux learning seminar is find. To search recursively in the directory somedir for files changed / created / modified within 1 day: find somedir -ctime -1 Or within 5 days: find somedir -ctime -5 To search recursively in …
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cd is the command in Linux to change the current working directory. While you can change to your home directory by cd ~, you can change to the previous directory or last directory you were in by: cd – Which would come very handy when you are working across multiple directories back and forth. To …
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The Linux command du stands for disk usage which is used to check the amount of disk storage any particular directory or file is using. By default, the simple command: du Would return the disk usage in God-knows-what-unit of each of the directories in the current working directory and those beneath them — in a …
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At Linux command line, to find a particular text string in all the files from the current directory recursively (that is, including all those files from the child or grandchild directories), use something like this via SSH: find . -exec grep -l "needle" {} \; This command searches through all directories from the current directory …
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wget is such a wonderful command in Linux you can ever get. Consider blessed to have it in your SSH arsenal. Now, not only does it allow you to download something neatly from the command line to the current working directory — that’s why WordPress always puts the latest version of the blog script at …
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MySQL has come with a safe mode wherein access privileges are not checked, which essentially enables you to log in anonymously to change anything in any database. And we are going to get in this safe mode to reset the lost MySQL root password. First, you need to stop the current MySQL daemon by: /etc/init.d/mysql …
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In most Unix file systems, the modification time and the change time of a file may not necessarily be the same, they are actually 2 very distinct concepts to deal with: File modification time represents when the data blocks or content are changed or modified, not including that of meta data such as ownership or …
Well it depends on the Linux distribution you are using, the version of php and the way you install it with Apache web server. Php.ini may be here: /etc/php.ini Or here: /etc/php/php.ini /etc/php5/php.ini Or here: /usr/bin/php5/bin/php.ini Anyway, you can always find any file named php.ini in this manner find / -name php.ini The simplest yet …
Ctrl+S happens to be a rather handy and popular combination as it’s used in Windows applications to save your current working data. I accidentally used it several times in Vim and it keeps locking the screen up and halting the interactivity — basically, after Ctrl+S I can’t do anything to the terminal (window). I use …
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