Server hacked: How do I fix, diagnosis and prevent? [closed]
Possible Duplicate: How do I deal with a compromised server? WP Site (up to date with version & plug ins) Cheap budget host Inserted on all of my pages inside the tags are the following code Fast Cash Advance Fast Cash Advanceif(document.getElementById(‘hideMe’) != null){document.getElementById(‘hideMe’).style.visibility = ‘hidden’;document.getElementById(‘hideMe’).style.display = ‘none’;} How do I remove this? What steps can I take to prevent this from occurring again? How can I identify the susceptible area? Thanks. Asked by Christopher [...]
Continue Reading »WordPress Ubuntu 12.04 : Unable to create directory wp-content/uploads?
I have set up a wordpress website on amazon ec2 using ubuntu 1.04 LTS by following this tutorial end to end except that i used amazon RDS(thier cloud database service) instead of sql.Although i dont think using RDS instad of mysql could have caused the problem. But I do think you ll need to check this tutorial out before you can answer the question. The wordpress installation works file but when i try to install [...]
Continue Reading »With WebMatrix, How do I Connect to a MySQL Database on a Colleague’s Machine?
I have scoured Google trying to discover how to do this, but essentially I want to connect to a colleague’s MySQL database for working together on a WordPress installation. I am having no luck and keep getting an error about the connection not being possible: Unable to connect to any of the specified MySQL hosts.MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlException (0×80004005): Unable to connect to any of the specified MySQL hosts. at MySql.Data.MySqlClient.NativeDriver.Open() at MySql.Data.MySqlClient.Driver.Open() at MySql.Data.MySqlClient.Driver.Create(MySqlConnectionStringBuilder settings) at MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlPool.GetPooledConnection() [...]
Continue Reading »Apache running as root instead of user specified in httpd.conf
I’m trying to enable WordPress to upload files to the wp-content folder without setting permissions for the folder to 777. However, I’m having some difficulties. The group and user set for the wp-content folder match the group and user Apache is configured to be using in httpd.conf. However, when I run the below command, it appears that Apache is actually running as root rather than the user specified in httpd.conf. httpd.conf Configuration User xxx Group [...]
Continue Reading »Getting APC Fragmentation to a Minimum
After weeks of messing around in my setup I finally managed to get APC to work with Mod_Ruid2 enabled in WHM and setting DSO as PHP-handler. I own a XEN VPS with 2 GB RAM and 4 CPU-cores on which I run 4 WordPress sites – of which 2 are big, regularly updated (+/- 15000 posts total) sites with lots of traffic (8000 uniques a day total for both sites). APC is running fine overall, [...]
Continue Reading »Using a WordPress Header Externally [closed]
I’m trying to use the WordPress header from my site with my PunBB forum installation in order to give my site a bit more continuity. Anyway, I’ve got the header stuck on the forum in a test theme I’m using (a test theme for the forum, not WordPress), but I’ve run into some problems with CSS. Basically, the various CSS files from the WordPress theme conflict with the files from the forum theme, so I [...]
Continue Reading »web folder permission issue with WordPress using Nginx in CenterOS
OS: CentOS release 6.2 In nginx.conf, I set web user as nginx as the following, user nginx nginx; The mod of plugin/uploads folders is like the following drwxr-xr-x. 11 nginx nginx 4096 23:09 plugins drwxr-xr-x. 4 nginx nginx 4096 11:13 uploads As you see, the plugins/uploads folders are owned by nginx, and “rwx” by nginx, but why when I try to update plugins via wordpress dashboard, I still get permission denied. Thanks, Adam Asked by [...]
Continue Reading »My WordPress site being hack by modifying the .htaccess [closed]
Possible Duplicate: My server's been hacked EMERGENCY I’m going crazy right now and I don’t know what to do. I’ve did a Google search about those hackers where they using .htaccess to redirect my site to their site to gain traffic, and now I’m getting this problem since yesterday and I don’t know what I should do…. I’ve also did a search and found some people having the same problem and the suggestion was to [...]
Continue Reading »What privileges does a MySQL User need for WordPress?
I need to create a new MySQL user to manage my wordpress site. What privellages are needed for wordpress? I assume INSERT is also needed and maybe DROP? Example GRANT SELECT ON database.* TO user@’localhost’; Asked by Henry Hoggard The official documentation says to give the user all privs. Others suggest that you can restrict it to INSERT UPDATE DELETE CREATE DROP ALTER INDEX Plugins etc can though call any statement they want so you [...]
Continue Reading »1 EC2 instance per website – manage multiple websites on Amazon cloud using EC2
I’m managing multiple websites, most based on WordPress and all are based on LAMP stack. I’m moving all my websites to Amazon cloud. I’m new to AWS and my plan is moving 1 website by one, starting with my smallest website. My question is should I put all my site on 1 EC2 instance and or 1 website on 1 separate instance? This probably sounds stupid since anyone would definitely choose the latter in conventional [...]
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