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WordPress Says Your Host May Have Disabled The mail() Function. Here Is How to Fix It.

Cloud Insidr 2016-02-14 Leave a Comment

WordPress Says Your Host May Have Disabled The mail() Function. Here Is How to Fix It.

Some WordPress installations stubbornly refuse requests for a password reset link, showing the user this error message instead:

The email could not be sent.
Possible reason: your host may have disabled the mail() function.

WordPress’ error massage is anything but insightful. The underlying cause usually involves SELinux. Let us introduce you to an easy fix that does not involve plug-ins or external email services. Buckle up.

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Filed Under: administration and orchestration, cloud, edge and everything in between, mail servers, NGINX, web servers in the cloud Tagged With: NGINX, postfix, SELinux, WordPress

How to Set up ip2nation: Geotargeting Made Easy for the Amazon Link Affiliate Plug-in and Your Server-Side Scripts

Anna E Kobylinska 2016-02-05 Leave a Comment

How to Set up ip2nation: Geotargeting Made Easy for the Amazon Link Affiliate Plug-in and Your Server-Side Scripts

The Amazon Link plug-in for WordPress implements geotargeting based on ip2nation, a free geotargeting library from Per Gustafsson Consulting (available here). If you are wondering what you need to do in order to integrate the Amazon Link affiliate plug-in for WordPress (seing how a separate installation plugin for WordPress is two years old as of this writing, and counting), here is a quick howto for those who can access their websites’ MySQL or MariaDB database servers.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized, web servers in the cloud Tagged With: Affiliate, Amazon, dumpfile, geotargeting, MariaDB, MySQL, SQL, WordPress

Locked out of WordPress? How to Reset Your User Password to the Admin Backend in MySQL or MariaDB

Anna E Kobylinska 2015-12-28 Leave a Comment

Locked out of WordPress? How to Reset Your User Password to the Admin Backend in MySQL or MariaDB

Have you locked yourself out of WordPress due to some upgrade or restore mishap in combination with the lack of a valid email address to restore it to? Welcome to the Club of lucky administrators! There is a solution to this particular problem that just begs to be shouted from the rooftops: why don’t you reset your WordPress password using MySQL (or MariaDB). Let’s get right to it.

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Filed Under: cloud, edge and everything in between, cybersecurity and cyber warfare, web servers in the cloud Tagged With: MariaDB, MySQL, SSH, WordPress

How to migrate your web services from any hosting provider to AWS

Cloud Insidr 2015-02-25 Leave a Comment

How to migrate your web services from any hosting provider to AWS

Leaving your current web hosting provider for the cloud experience may feel rather scary, but in reality, it is a liberating experience.

Just think of all the freedom you gain to run your web services your way: the ability to use any DNS provider of your choice, any certificate authority (such as, most notably, the disruptive force of Letsencrypt), install software to your heart’s content, scale up and out on demand, in other words, be in charge of your own services and infrastructure. Here is a quick tutorial on how to make the leap.

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Filed Under: cloud, edge and everything in between, NGINX, web servers in the cloud Tagged With: AWS, EC2, Linux, NGINX, WordPress

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