In this article, we will show how you can temporarily block server access with the use of CSF. CSF (ConfigServer Security & Firewall) is a powerful firewall for Linux systems. First of all, you must make sure to whitelist your…
Probably the most used wp-cli commands are the core, plugin, theme. We will discuss a little each one of them. Before running any wp-cli commands be sure to switch to the right directory: # cd /home/wp_directory 1. wp core - it…
WP-CLI is a command-line interface for WordPress. Through it, you can manage your installations from the command line. Official requirements you should check prior to installing WP-CLI: - UNIX-like environment (OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, Cygwin); limited support in Windows environment-…
It is recommended to run this command every time to update your MySQL/MariaDB from one major release to another. For example when upgrading from MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8; MariaDB 10 to MariaDB 11. It checks all the databases(with all…
The tool that we will present here is a regex-based PHP malware scanner (written in Perl). It will scan your server for PHP malicious files. In addition to cxs and maldet (links at the end of this post), this tool is…
It's a good idea to secure the SSH login with a two-factor authentication method. We will show in this article how to secure SSH with Google Authenticator. Steps: Install the Google Authenticator from Google Play Install the Google…