Yup, use -r: scp -rp sourcedirectory user@dest:/path -r means recursive -p preserves modification times, access times, and modes from the original file. Note: This creates the sourcedirectory inside /path thus the files will be in /path/sourcedirectory
As of GNU coreutils 7.5 released in August 2009, sort allows a -h parameter, which allows numeric suffixes of the kind produced by du -h: du -hs * | sort -h If you are using a sort that does not support -h, you can install GNU Coreutils. E.g. on an older Mac OS X: brew … Read more
Linux users have nothing to do with WordPress users. WordPress maintains its own user database, with its own permissions. The linux user PHP is running as is determined by the server setup, usually whatever user that Apache/Nginx/etc are running as. If your PHP can access the entire file system then you have a serious security … Read more
If you have this statement (by default) in your wp-config file define( ‘WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE’, true ); Then WP core files are automatically updated for you. This assumes that you have traffic to your site (if nobody ever visits your site, the updates won’t happen.) So your solution is actually causing more work by the server, and … Read more
You don’t need Postfix if you use an SMTP plugin like, for example, WP Mail SMTP. Such kind of plugins can send email from your Google account via SMTP. I have just checked it by stopping postfix and successfully sending an email via WP Mail SMTP. If no SMTP plugins are activated on your site, … Read more
Unix and Unix-like operating systems (like Linux) use different line endings in their text files. The format of Windows and Unix text files differs slightly. In Windows, lines end with both the line feed and carriage return ASCII characters, but Unix uses only a line feed. As a consequence, some Windows applications will not show … Read more
Check the .htaccess file first, and the Settings > General area first to make sure it’s not a level of security-by-obscurity that one of the initial users tried to implement. The easiest way is to change the name of the folder then see if your site breaks, since you can rename a folder a lot … Read more
I mean your php.ini is changed, check for the entry extension=php_mysqll.dll. (If you has no knowledge where is your used php.ini – see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8684609/dude-wheres-my-php-ini) Is this entry active, has no ; before the string. After change of the php.ini you need a restart of mysql, like sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restart. Also a note, check that mysql … Read more
First steps: Take the server offline, if you can access it directly. – The chance of your server being part of a larger scheme at this point is pretty high. If you can’t take it offline, check your authorized_keys files in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and remove entries that don’t belong to you. (Repeat this step for every … Read more
I solved this by making the webserver user the owner and the group of all the files in the WordPress directory. I figured out the webserver user was daemon with: ps aux | egrep ‘(apache|httpd)’ Then I changed the permissions with: sudo chown -R daemon:daemon /your-path-to-wordpress