Installing WordPress
DigitalOcean tutorial I’ve referred to DigitalOcean’s tutorial How To Install WordPress with LEMP on Ubuntu 20.04[1]Muldrow, L. (2020) How To Install WordPress with LEMP on Ubuntu 20.04. Available from: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-with-lemp-on-ubuntu-20-04 [Accessed 03 May 2022]. a couple of times in earlier posts in this series to ensure that our LEMP stack is ready to host the […]
Securing the server with Let’s Encrypt
A Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTPS) connection is now an essential requirement for trustworthy websites with browsers flagging sites that are not secured. This post describes how to acquire certificates from the free, open-source certificate authority Let’s Encrypt and a way to configure an Nginx server to achieve a maximum security rating.
P: Installing and configuring PHP
PHP, the final software component of the LEMP stack, is the most complex to install because Nginx doesn’t support it natively. This post walks through the process of configuring PHP to work with Nginx including the steps necessary to enable it for multiple sites hosted on the same server.
M: Installing and configuring MariaDB
The LEMP stack walk-through continues with the installation and securing of MariaDB.
E: Installing and configuring the Nginx web server
This post describes how to put the E into LEMP stack by installing the Nginx web server and allowing it through Ubuntu’s firewall.
L: Setting up your Ubuntu 22.04 LTS server
Having shown how to create a DigitalOcean Droplet (virtual private server) to host WordPress in the first part of this series, this second post describes how to connect to your VPS using the secure shell protocol (SSH). It continues with a guide to taking the essential security steps of setting up a non-root user and enabling Ubuntu’s firewall and concludes by outlining how to establish a secure server connection using SSH keys.
Creating a DigitalOcean Droplet
This first post in a series on how to set up WordPress on a virtual private server (VPS) hosted by DigitalOcean (DO) works through the process of configuring a VPS running Ubuntu’s 22.04 LTS distribution via DO’s website. It includes screenshots of the steps to create a VPS ready for further configuration.
Back Here Now:
Revisiting Be Here Now 25 years on
Drawing on personal memories, press coverage, interviews, and biographies, this post revisits Oasis’s third album, Be Here Now, 25 years from its original issue in August 1997. It recalls the expectations and excitement surrounding the release, explores its cover artwork’s creation, examines The Beatles’ influence on the album’s concept and composition, and discusses the quality of the music.
Ask not what your writers’ group can do for you…
Based on over two decades experience of running a scriptwriters group in Bristol, this post explores the expectations organisers and members need to bring to get the most from participating in a writers’ group. Starting with assurances that writers should feel themselves neither imposters in a group nor superior to its other members regardless of their level of experience, it continues by outlining the scope of the task that organisers take on in running group activities. The post then finds that giving and receiving feedback is a two-way process requiring positive attitudes on both sides and looks at evidence from a study that showed that active debate and criticism produces the most creative outcomes.