Social Cross Posting WordPress Plugins

This is just a little tiny test. =) If you are here, it is because you followed a link from either Google+, Facebook, or Twitter. For some reason, the posting to Google+ doesn't allow me to control the circle nor does it allow me to control any text input. The title of the post is the google plus post's content plus a link. Hrm. Continue reading →

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iptables facepalm

This article was posted more than 1 year ago. Please keep in mind that the information on this page may be outdated, insecure, or just plain wrong today.

Facepalm Friday I think!
I recently reconfigured my iptables based firewall and stupidly forgot to allow access out to Akismet for spam filtering on WordPress. No wonder I was getting hammered with spam content.
Time to go home. #*)@$%#$

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nginx 502 bad gateway

Update May 22, 2012: I have since moved away from TCP backend to Unix sockets. This has resolved my sporadic 502's and gave better performance. In /etc/rc.local I removed the -a and -p arguments and replaced with -b /tmp/php.socket and in my nginx configuration, I set fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/php.socket; I discovered I needed a manager for fastcgi so I decided on daemontools instead of php-fpm.Instructions for setting this up are here:  http://wiki.linuxwall.info/doku.php/en:ressources:dossiers:nginx:daemontools_spawnfcgi I Continue reading →

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nginx error – 413 Request Entity Too Large

I was getting an error when trying to upload and attach images larger than 2MB via WordPress.
I discovered that nginx has a configuration setting called client_max_body_size that is default set to 1M.
To change this, I altered my nginx vhost configuration and added the following line:
server {
server_name techish.net www.techish.net;
root /var/www/techish.net;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_php;
client_max_body_size 5M;
location / {
index index.php;
if (!-e $request_filename) Continue reading →

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Apache Segfault when Navigating to WP-Admin

Argh!
When trying to get into WordPress' administration panel, Apache segfaults.
First troubleshooting steps involved moving all plugins/ to a temporary folder.
This didn't produce any new results, still segfaulting.
Here are some notes on how I went about debugging this with GDB 7.3
wp-admin crashing
setup core dump in /etc/apache2.conf
CoreDumpDirectory /tmp-apache2/
Restart apache.
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
install GDB 7.1+ for PIE support (See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=346409)
gdb Continue reading →

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