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One day I needed to restore the server due to a problem that occurred with the wordpress that I had installed that was disabled and needed a quick solution. I gave him the option to restore from the droplet control pa...
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Assuming you’re on Ubuntu,
systemctl enable apache2 mysql
Link for references.
https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-start-service-on-boot-on-ubuntu-20-04
Ps: MySQL is dead, I highly recommend using mariadb instead. All MyS...
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stiven8as
Ubuntu 18.04
PHP
WordPress
Backups
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My server configuration (DigitalOcen):
* 4GB RAM | 80 GB Disk
* Ubuntu 16.04 x64 (NGINX) - WordPress
Current PHP version: 7.0.33
* Reason to upgrade: WordPress Error - PHP Update Required
Kindly help.
Thank you!
Accepted Answer:
Hi @chinmayrajyaguru,
You can actually upgrade the PHP version, you can just install a new one.
Firstly, to be able to install a certain PHP version, in this case, 7.2 you'll need to add a certain repository to your ...
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chinmayrajyaguru
Ubuntu 16.04
Nginx
PHP
WordPress
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I have a droplet setup using the LAMP by DigitalOcean OS Ubuntu 18.04 framework (which includes Postfix), and in testing out the php mail() function, I find that sending or cc'ing email to a Gmail address works perfec...
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OK, so I configured Postfix to use my Gmail account as my SMTP server and all is good now. Still not sure why the email wasn't showing up in my inboxes before, but they are now! Hope this helps someone...
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g3logic
Ubuntu 18.04
PHP
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I want to use the new DigitalOcean MySQL Managed Databases with my PHP application but I'm getting this error here:
ER_NOT_SUPPORTED_AUTH_MODE: Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; con...
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Hello,
The easiest way to fix that would be to alter your existing user with the following:
ALTER USER <^>myuser <^>IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY '<^>mypassword<^>';
Another thing that you could do is to ...
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bitmap
Databases
MySQL
PHP
WordPress
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I'm following the directions and running into an issue on the Centos 8 LEMP tutorial: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-nginx-mysql-php-lemp-stack-on-centos-8
Any help would be grea...
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Hi @chipsterz,
Have you tried doing a System Upgrade beforehand? You can check for whether software updates are available with the following command:
sudo dnf check-update
You can do a minimal software update with t...
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chipsterz
CentOS 8
PHP
LEMP
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Hello,
I have just finished setting up my Ubuntu 16.4 server. I have installed php5.6.26 because I am going to use Wordpress and I am not sure if all plugins are compatible with php7.
I need to install some php modu...
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As of Ubuntu 16.04.x default PHP version is PHP7. You should add PHP5 repository and you will be able to install it.
First of all add repository :
command
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
When it finishes updat...
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rodikr
PHP
Ubuntu 16.04
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Hello,
Current situation:
My domain: www.example.com which is with 'BigRock', which has nameservers connection to the 'HostGator'. Now, I want to point www.blog.example.com sub-domain to 'DigitalOcean'.
Expected outpu...
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Hello, @suchakmaulik179
If your domain name is using Hostgator's nameservers than all DNS changes need to be made from their control panel, because the active DNS zone is there. If you made DNS changes for your domai...
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suchakmaulik179
WordPress
DNS
Networking
Apache
PHP
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I've been trying to install the latest PHP version on my CentOS 7 droplet but every install keeps missing some key extensions.
If I try to add them afterwards, there are some dependency failures which really bugs me....
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Hi @Remdore,
So I ran into the same problem a day ago. Even if you install PHP 7.2 with yum something without any preparation always doesn't work right away.
So, to install ANY PHP version you wish, you can follow the...
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Remdore
Apache
PHP
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Hello,
I use PHPDesigner which I really love and i prefer not using another software for my PHP coding.
However PHPdesigner hasn't been updated since 2013 which sucks because it uses some old SSH settings which it see...
Accepted Answer:
Hi there @Geekologist,
It looks like someone had the same question on the DigitalOcean community site a while ago, I would recommend checking the answer here:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/server-do...
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Geekologist
PHP
Ubuntu
Ubuntu 18.04
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Hello,
I'm using the PHPMyAdmin one-click app, but the MySQL server version is way behind and I'm not sure how to upgrade it without breaking anything
The current version is:
mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.7.30, for Lin...
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Hi there @Geekologist,
With the PHPmyAdmin 1-Click installation, you get MySQL 5.7 and PHPmyAdmin 4.6.6. I believe that if you upgrade your MySQL installation you would need to upgrade PHPmyAdmin to the latest version...
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Geekologist
PHP
MySQL
One-Click Install Apps
Ubuntu
Ubuntu 18.04
Databases
DigitalOcean
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I had to rename my droplet to send mails, and it was renamed to my domain name, because I needed to be fqdn. When sending mails using php mail() function, it worked just fine, and the mails were received from somethin...
Accepted Answer:
Just had to update my /etc/mailname file
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Dantael
PHP
Nginx
DigitalOcean
Debian 10
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Redis is an open source, advanced key-value store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets, and sorted sets.
According to the official Laravel documentati...
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Prerequisites:
In order to complete this tutorial, you will need:
An Ubuntu Droplet with Laravel installed, you can follow the steps from this guide here on How to Install and Configure Laravel with LEMP on Ubuntu 18....
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bobbyiliev
Redis
PHP
PHP Frameworks
Ubuntu
Linux Basics
Linux Commands
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It is usually recommended to use distribution packages when possible - they usually provide integration to your distribution and you will automatically get security updates from your distribution.
You can find a coll...
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There are a few ways of installing phpMyAdmin as described in the official documentation here:
https://docs.phpmyadmin.net/en/latest/setup.html
However I've been using another method which is a bit more convenient for...
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bobbyiliev
MySQL
PHP
LAMP Stack
Apache
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I'm trying to upload a large database to phpMyAdmin, and so need to adjust the values of uploadmaxfilesize, memorylimit and postmax_size in the php.ini configuration file. However I'm having trouble locating php.ini o...
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Hi @alexanderCrab,
The best way to see which PHP.ini your website is looking at is using phpinfo. PHPinfo() is a PHP method which can be used in a file like so
```
<?php
phpinfo();
```
Basically, what you need to do ...
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alexanderCrab
PHP
MySQL
Ubuntu 18.04
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hi, im trying to deploy my php-mvc app and i cant get my autoload.php to work.
Everything works correctly on localhost, but when deploying on the server it gives me 500 (Internal error server) ... I have tried to edit...
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the error was that linux is case sensitive xD
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FLP
PHP
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Hi! I'm bamboozled.
Here's the setup:
* One application server, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (PHP 7.2, mysql-client)
* One database server, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (mysql-server 5.7)
I need to connect to the database from a PHP appl...
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Hello,
This is quite interesting. As you are able to connect to the database with the mysql command, my guess would be that the password that you are using might not be correct, does your password have any special cha...
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firestormbe352da97c3f50bea
MySQL
PHP
Ubuntu 18.04
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error 1
A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Warning
Message: mysqli::real_connect(): (HY000/2002): Connection refused
Filename: mysqli/mysqli_driver.php
Line Number: 201
error 2
A PHP Error was encountered
Severity:...
Accepted Answer:
Hello,
It looks like that your server is running out of disk space. You can check that with this command:
df -h
My guess would be that the server ran out of space and MySQL crashed, that is why you are getting the f...
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thiago20
MySQL
PHP
Ubuntu
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I'm trying to import a 151 MB database into phpMyAdmin and am getting the error "You probably tried to upload a file that is too large. Please refer to documentation for a workaround for this limit."
I've already edit...
Accepted Answer:
Hello, @alexanderCrab
Could you please confirm that the uploadmaxfilesize change has taken effect? What you can do is to create an info.php file and then check the value. You can create a file named info.php (the nam...
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alexanderCrab
MySQL
PHP
PHP Frameworks
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Domain name is registered and DNS is pointed to DO as per tutorial. Created "A" record for fireball.design and www.fireball.design and *.fireball.design. Also created Nginx server block for fireball.design in /etc/ngi...
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Tried the Fail2ban stuff but nothing worked and even uninstalled it.
Tried lots of other things.
I give up
3 weeks later for a simple LEMP stack with Wordpress. One click garbage installs.
Can somebody delete this wh...
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AndreyPavlov
DNS
Initial Server Setup
LEMP
Networking
Nginx
PHP
WordPress
Ubuntu 18.04
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Hello, I have been reading up on the tutorials and some of the comments on the community pages but I would like to know if there are any better alternatives or any advice to better manage my databases.
I use Phpmyadmi...
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Phpmyadmin does support PHP 7 and Mysql 5.7.
I recommend you to grab latest release from their download page (https://www.phpmyadmin.net/downloads/).
Current download link is:
https://files.phpmyadmin.net/phpMyAdmin/4...
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Lilap
Nginx
MySQL
PHP
Ubuntu 16.04
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