Tag Archives: sysadmin

Setting up wordpress to update itself

By Chris | Published: July 25, 2009
Wordpress’s auto update feature is incredibly handy. However, not every webhost automatically has accounts setup to allow for this, and if click the promising looking auto-upgrade icon, you’ll often be face with this screen here: You get this screen when the folder containing wordpress belongs to the user, instead of the apache daemon; this is normally either [...]
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A brief primer on using ssh

By Chris | Published: December 24, 2008
I keep forgetting how to do this, so I'm writing this here for future reference. This year, as I use web app frameworks like Django or Rails more and more, I've increasingly been using the command line instead of tools like Transmit for making changes to sites and web apps. This works fine locally, but when [...]
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