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How to configure self hosted wordpress so that everything can be upgraded/installed from dashboard

This is an issue with your server configuration, not with WordPress. Generally, it means that the server is not configured to use suPHP. (More, via Otto, here and here.) The (usually simple) solution is to add your FTP information to wp-config.php: define(‘FTP_USER’, ‘username’); define(‘FTP_PASS’, ‘password’); define(‘FTP_HOST’, ‘ftp.example.org’); Put these in wp-config.php (with your specific information, … Read more

WordPress V2 REST-API: Endpoints 404?

Try changing your permalinks structure. Within the dashboard go to Settings > Permalinks and select the Post Name structure. When this is done click Save Changes. If Post Name is already selected, it might be worth clicking save changes again to reset the permalinks. Update: Per the comments below, WordPress does not, out of the … Read more

Best practices for making a WordPress site “movable”?

Moving a WordPress website is fairly easy, here are the steps: Backup your mysql database and re-import it in the new environment, Move all the files to the new environment, Update the wp-config.php file to reflect the new database connection information, (*)Replace all occurrences of your domain name with the new one if it has … Read more

How can I improve site/page performance of WordPress websites?

The most common thing to try is a content caching plugin like W3 Total Cache or WP Super Cache. Both will cache entire pages to disk, and will allow the Apache web server to completely bypass PHP processing for many page views. With W3 Total Cache, you can also cache system objects and the results … Read more

How do I get the right permissions for WordPress running Apache on Debian

Many of the examples assume you’re not the only person running stuff on the server, or that suPHP or some other utility is running to make PHP run as a user other than the web server. With a basic Debian LAMP install, where PHP runs as the www-data user, it’s safe and normal to set … Read more

PHP code is not being executed, but the code shows in the browser source code

Sounds like there is something wrong with your configuration, here are a few things you can check: Make sure that PHP is installed and running correctly. This may sound silly, but you never know. An easy way to check is to run php -v from a command line and see if returns version information or … Read more

.htaccess: Invalid command ‘RewriteEngine’, perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

or defined by a module not included in the server configuration Check to make sure you have mod_rewrite enabled. From: https://webdevdoor.com/php/mod_rewrite-windows-apache-url-rewriting Find the httpd.conf file (usually you will find it in a folder called conf, config or something along those lines) Inside the httpd.conf file uncomment the line LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so (remove the pound ‘#’ … Read more

WAMP won’t turn green. And the VCRUNTIME140.dll error

As Oriol said, you need the following redistributables before installing WAMP. From the readme.txt BEFORE proceeding with the installation of Wampserver, you must ensure that certain elements are installed on your system, otherwise Wampserver will absolutely not run, and in addition, the installation will be faulty and you need to remove Wampserver BEFORE installing the … Read more

Site does not exist error for a2ensite

Solved the issue by adding .conf extension to site configuration files. Apache a2ensite results in: Error! Site Does Not Exist Problem; If you found the error while trying to enable a site using: but it returns: Error: example.com does not exist a2ensite is simply a Perl script that only works with filenames ending .conf Therefore, I have to rename my setting … Read more

Https to http redirect using htaccess

Attempt 2 was close to perfect. Just modify it slightly:

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