Tag Archives: Wordpress

SELinux allow webserver to send email

Posted on 2014-11-14 by Gerhard

When Wordpress tries to send email and you see “your host may have disabled the mail() function” it might be that SELinux is blocking it. Here is how to enable it. Continue reading →

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Migrate WordPress site with minimal downtime

Posted on 2014-09-20 by Gerhard

Migrating a Wordpress installation from one server to the other sounds like a simple task. Just move the files, copy the database for Wordpress and lets go. But when you start dealing with the DNS entries the whole story gets tricky. Continue reading →

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WordPress performance tuning

Posted on 2013-11-27 by Gerhard

While migrating from one server to a Amazon AWS i noticed a huge decrease in performance on the AWS instance. While the Wordpress blog took a second or so to load on the old server (dedicated server) the processing time went up to about 5-10 seconds for one page load. At first you might immediately think of the server as the bottle neck. But a slow server will just bring the problem to light. Continue reading →

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