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Andrew Fletcher
Recently I have been investigating one of my Linux server's speed using the copy [cp] command.  This came about due to 'upgrading' the server from Centos 6 to 7.  Once I had migrated a domain, I ran the following command yes | cp -rf 'stg/core' 'tmpdir'To my surprise, the first run of this command took over 38 minutes to complete.  Crap!  Yes a simple cp -a command is a very painful and slow process.  Read more about the pain and times under Centos 7 in this...
Andrew Fletcher
Looking to install Solr on your server?  Not sure if it worth the...
Andrew Fletcher
Installing Varnish to increase the speed of the page load. Install varnish using...
Andrew Fletcher
A recent attempt to run an update composer (regular activity for many of...
Andrew Fletcher
I'm writing these steps primarily for myself as a reference.  However, if...
Andrew Fletcher
I need to set the default php-version of a subscription to php7.3.  The current server php version is PHP 7.1.33 (cli) (built: Oct 25 2019 11:33:58) ( NTS ). Using a shell program (I used Terminal) from the home directory I ran: export PATH=/opt/plesk/php/7.3/bin:$PATH; centos 6 use service httpd restartcentos 7 use sudo systemctl restart httpd.serviceHowever, through shell when I ran php -v the version remained at 7.1.33. Incase the restart wasn't enough I rebooted the server...
Andrew Fletcher
Attempting to load changes in a staging site and the bountiful error page...
Andrew Fletcher
(104)Connection reset by peer: mod_fcgid: error reading data from FastCGI...
Andrew Fletcher
To add ejabberd and run MYSQL to the server I needed to update the server...
Andrew Fletcher
This page shows a growing list of common commands for viewing and managing your...
Andrew Fletcher
Whilst updating nodejs and npm on a Centos 6 or 7 server running Apache, I hit a few walls and as a matter of process found some commands that are handy to run before doing a deep dive in Google.   Cleaning the cache sudo yum clean all rm -rf /var/cache/yum/* To make the cache sudo yum clean all; sudo yum makecacheIf you want to run several commands use semi-colon as noted above.   Updating When running an update command run sudo yum -y...
Andrew Fletcher
Installing Laravel on an Apache server was going to be a no fuss process said no...
Andrew Fletcher
We had an issue recently where saving a page in the admin area produced one of...