nginx + wordpress: Best practices for configuring it to be secure, reliable, and fast? [closed]

What permissions should I set on each of wp folders? Users will need to upload various assets (images, pdfs, office docs, audio, video). I found this article here that seems helpful, but would like to get some input from folks having done this? This will be the same as any other web server. Whatever user … Read more

http upload error as a subscribed user

The Subscriber user role does not have write permissions. http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#Subscriber Perhaps you should give the user the Contributor role. Contributor delete_posts edit_posts read http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#Contributor

Varnish + Nginx for WordPress is Good?

Yes, it is good, but other options are also good. There is no silver bullet in term of webservers and caching software, if there was everybody would have been using the same tools. It depends both on what are your actual needs and how comfortable are you with managing the tools. For example it might … Read more

Rewrite old post images to https

It’s very primitive method but works in any case; Make a dump from MySQL Open it with text editor or maybe another tool you liked (If your dump is so big, you’ll need a strong computer.) Find all http://example.com, replace with https://example.com and save. Rename/move the old database for backup, import the edited database. Leave … Read more