
Fixing the Apache Log Format
Today I finally got around to something I’ve been meaning to do for sooo long. One of those things where the time you notice it is really not the time to be changing it. In my Apache configs I have plenty of CustomLog directives to set the log file name for each web domain I… Continue reading Fixing the Apache Log Format

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 to change course. CentOS has always been a ‘downstream’ version of Red… Continue reading And Introducing…

Backing Up a WordPress Site
I run multiple — too many — WordPress sites and these need to be regularly backed up. I have a whole-of-server process which runs courtesy of my hosting provider, but I like to have more granular backup on my own computer for each web site I host. Historically, I have created a script for each… Continue reading Backing Up a WordPress Site

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 here because if I had to figure them out, then I couldn’t find a solution… Continue reading Useful Linux Commands