I created a small website for a local contractor that does well drilling in Waupaca, WI. This is the same company that installed our replacement septic system in Waupaca about 6 or 7 years ago. It is surprising how many small companies still do not have a web presence. The company still shows up on […]
Allied Well, Septic & Pumps created with Astra theme for WordPress Read More »
If you have ever ran into this issue you’ll find that you are not alone. There are a number of plugins available that supposedly fix the problem but if you’re like me you hate to install to many plugins. If you are using Nginx/PHP-FPM you can forgo the plugin route and fix this issue before
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If you have ever tailed your access logs (eg. tail -f /var/log/nginx/access.log) you may have seen some bad bot signs such as rapid requests for exploitable WordPress plugins or brute forcing logins on your site. The first obvious defence of course is having strong passwords and up to date WordPress files. (from the base install
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1. Never trust user input! Doing so can lead to security issues such a hijacked sessions, SQL injection and your entire site being compromised. This goes for all of the PHP superglobals such as $_SERVER and not just $_GET, $_POST and $_REQUEST arrays. The only exception would be the $_SESSION superglobal as this persists on
