NGINX Reverse Proxy to Legacy Website
NGINX reverse proxies can be a very powerful tool for many reasons and recently came to the rescue as I was at a loss as to how to provide access to a legacy website when...
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Prepare IN and NOT IN Statements in WordPress
Why should I use prepared statements? Using some type of prepared statement protects you against SQL injection attacks when you need to interact with the database using parameters passed in from the client side. Depending...
Install logtail on CentOS
The developer of logtail has not made the repository available via yum for quick installation. Even if you don’t want to access logtail from the command line, it is still used by several other scripts...
Disable WP-Cron in WordPress
What is WP-Cron? WP-Cron is the way that WordPress executes scheduled jobs that are added via wp_schedule_event() or one of its associated functions. First it’s a bit of a hack given the single threaded-ness...
Upgrade From MySQL to MariaDB on CentOS
Here is how you upgrade from MySQL 5.5+ to MariaDB 5.5, 5.6 or 10.0. After running MySQL 5.5 for a while and getting tired of not taking advantage of the features and performance enhancements,...
Convert From MyISAM to InnoDB Engine
If you ever have the need to convert a MySQL (or MariaDB) table from the MyISAM engine to the InnoDB engine, you can use the following script to get it done for an entire...
