11/02/2020
There’s been a long history of some bots trying to access this blog by trying to access the root & admin accounts & guessing the password, not sure why? This has caused frequent lock outs & even messing up the back end database, preventing the site from loading. It’s not been a real big issue as I’ve simply restored the backup, simples 🙂 The last solution that I’ve applied seems…
08/11/2020
I never much recognise the improvements that are rolled out with WordPress releases, but this one it truly useful; plugins now have the option to auto update 🙂 This closes a potential security hole, although guess there’s also the chance that any updates could break a site :p Good news on the day NZ enters lockdown again, let’s see how long this lasts this time!
10/21/2018
I received heads up this morning from a friendly Twitter user (@adrianhungate) that my site was down and they were generously offering help to restore. Rebooting the Ubuntu VPS brought it back on-line; but why did it occur? My Duck Duck Fu turned up this useful, if not a little dated gem: Error establishing a database connection (WordPress) grep xmlrpc /var/log/apache2/access.log This showed evidence of several brute-force amplification attacks, which…
Eek! received an email that Google couldn’t get to my robot.txt file, checked the WordPress part of the site, to find the error: Error Establishing a Database Connection. I was preparing to hunker down for the afternoon to find a solution, but the first result from DuckDuckGo pretty much solved it for me 🙂 From Beginner’s guide to WordPress: How to Fix the Error Establishing a Database Connection in WordPress…
10/06/2012
No luck gaining access the site for a couple of days, no biggy, an email exchange later & my ip is apparently added to the firewall exclusion & I’m in… I thought the issue was too much space been taken up on server, as I’ve revived warnings & had just backed up files to server. I’ve tried a couple of WordPress plugins to clear the old posts, only to receive…