Arbitrary tweets made by TheGingerDog up to 22 November 2020
Tag: wordpress
Arbitrary tweets made by TheGingerDog up to 21 January 2018
Arbitrary tweets made by TheGingerDog up to 24 July 2016
Fed up installing updates to WordPress sites? Stick this in a cron job somewhere, and cross your fingers (a little)….
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varnish throttling
I came across the varnish throttle module the other day – which seems quite useful – and certainly gives better control over abusive requests than using fail2ban (in that, only specific URLs/request types can be targeted and blocked with the throttle module, while fail2ban tends to trigger the blocking of any traffic from a client […]
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Cleaning up a lot of WordPress _transients
WordPress seems to like hiding a load of ‘transient’ (cacheable) stuff in it’s wp_options table. Unfortunately for one site, it seems it didn’t bother to clean up the transient stuff, leaving behind about 750,000 records… which made a WP version upgrade painful, as MySQL locks the wp_option table which causes all other page loads to […]
Arbitrary tweets made by TheGingerDog up to 18 January 2015
Arbitrary tweets made by TheGingerDog up to 28 December 2014
While trying to block spam posts on a forum, I noticed this gem. No doubt someone’s spam sending program has failed, just a little….
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Fail2ban filter for WordPress
With the annoying brute force wordpress hack going round, one way to protect your site(s) would be to use fail2ban, with a configuration something like (which I’ve shamelessly lifted from http://blog.somsip.com/2011/12/protecting-apache-webservers-from-wordpress-admin-login-dictionary-attacks/ ). The below seems to be working, and given it’s relative simplicity it’s obvious how you’d go about changing to protect other POST based scripts […]