Wordpress
Default Wordpress .htaccess
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Deny Access to WP login except for certain IP's
(add to the .htaccess for the site)
<Files "wp-login.php"> # set up rule order order deny,allow # default deny deny from all # Add IPs for access below: allow from 10.20.4.0/22 allow from 192.168.5.20 # End of additional IPs errordocument 401 default errordocument 403 default errordocument 404 default </Files>
Update URLs
The site has changed servers, domain names, or whatever, and Wordpress still has a bunch of stuff that links to the old location, even after you've updated the URL's in the Dashboard. What do?
Install this plugin to update all the URL's:
Velvet Blues Update URL's plugin
Enable error log
1. At the end of wp-config.php, add:
define( 'WP_DEBUG', true );
define( 'WP_DEBUG_LOG', true );
define( 'WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', false );
2. Logs will be in: ./wp-content/debug.log
Wordpress corn Jobs
Is Wordpress getting a lot of traffic and touching itself inappropriately? Follow the below to turn off Wordpress's built-in "cron" system, and use a real Linux cron job instead.
1. Disable WP Cron
In your wp-config.php file, add the following line:
define('DISABLE_WP_CRON', true);
2. Setup the linux crontab
- su to the site owner
- crontab -e
- Add:
/15 * * * wget -q -O - http://yourdomain.com/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron
Disable xmlrpc
Add the following to the Apache pre-virthost include:
# START XML RPC BLOCKING <Files xmlrpc.php> Order Deny,Allow Deny from all allow from 127.0.0.1 #AUTOMATTIC jetpack etc allow from 192.0.64.0/18 errordocument 401 default errordocument 403 default errordocument 404 default errordocument 411 default </Files> # FINISH XML RPC BLOCKING
Throttle Wordpress logins
(On Litespeed servers...)
Add the following to /etc/apache2/conf.d/includes/pre_main_global.conf
<IfModule Litespeed>
WordPressProtect throttle, 5
</IfModule>