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Ubuntu 16.04 Web Server with Nginx, MariaDB, Redis, and Drupal 8
As mentioned in my Ubuntu 16.04 and Drupal 7 article, the Ubuntu 16 LTS version has some nice upgrades, including PHP 7, MySQL 5.7, Nginx 1.10, Apache 2.4.18, and MariaDB 10.0.x. Let’s see if we can...
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Installing Drush 8
Previously I discussed how to install Drush 6.x for use with Drupal 7. Here we’ll install Drush 8 for Drupal 8, specifically using Ubuntu 16.04 Server. The recommended method is to install using PHP’s...
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Your First Steps in WordPress
Once I’ve set up your WordPress blog, I recommend that you take the following steps: 1) Change your password to something secure and useful. There are various random password generators that you can...
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WordPress: Optimizing Nginx and WP Super Cache
Today we’re going to compare the performance of a WordPress site before and after we install and optimize the WP Super Cache plugin. We’re running Ubuntu 16.04 Server, Nginx 1.10, PHP 7 with the Zend...
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Install WP-CLI
The wp-cli command-line utility allows you to manage your WordPress sites without going through the WordPress dashboard, much like Drush does for Drupal. To install Composer and wp-cli on Ubuntu 16.04:...
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Bash: Make a Web Site Index
An old Bash script that uses awk to construct an index with hyperlinks from the .html files in a web tree. Attempts to use the <title> tag to name each link. To use, change your directories in...
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Perl XHTML Validation
Fixes some common XHTML validation errors, to make a web page pass the W3C markup validator. Does this still work? I have no idea, I never build web pages by hand anymore. #!/usr/bin/perl -cw # # Clean...
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jQuery Reading Progress Meter
On my Amazon reading list page I wanted to add a progress bar and ahead/behind schedule counter similar to that on Goodreads. For their reading progress meter, you enter how many books you plan to...
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Perl Hyperlink Relativizer
This was written to strip local domains from hyperlinks in text files, e.g., www.geoffstratton.com/mylink.html will become /mylink.html. #!/usr/bin/perl -cw # # Strip local domains from link urls. #...
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Installing an SSL Certificate on Nginx
Update April 2018: I’d suggest using Let’s Encrypt for this instead. How to create and install an SSL certificate for Nginx 1.10 on Ubuntu 16. (Apache setup here.) This setup also gets you an A on the...
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