Useful Linux Commands
I created this page to share some ‘beyond basic’ Linux commands that I have needed to devise to solve specific problems. Partly this is documentation for my own purposes (though I have them stored elsewhere as well) but mostly it’s …
Fixing the Apache Log Format
The following was one of those things I let slide for a long time because the time you notice it is really not the time to be changing it. In my Apache configs I had plenty of CustomLog directives to set the log file name for each web domain I have. …
And Introducing…
The inaugural content appeared on this site on 6th February 2021, but I have not publicised the site’s existence until now. There’s a reason for that. In December 2020 Red Hat (now owned by IBM) announced that the Linux distribution CentOS was going …
Backing Up a WordPress Site
Since I last updated this article, I have moved even further away from fully-self hosting my web sites. I now use a managed server (and therefore still managed databases). This necessitated further adjusting my scripts to suit some differences in the…