There are a number of posts on how to do this. I have created this post mostly for my own records so I know I will continue to have a record of what I have done. Setup Ensure you have … Continue reading
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In the post CentOS 7 base VM for WordPress and MythTV I described how to create a base CentOS 7 VM. This post describes follows on from that post and describes the post installation tasks to make the VM a good … Continue reading
Simple and official way to rename a host: hostnamectl set-hostname centos7-base.cantabrian Then restart the host. You should find the new name is reflected in the file: /etc/hostname Note: You only need to edit “/etc/resolv.conf ” if you are changing workgroups … Continue reading
If you have ever got this popup warning on CentOS/RedHat 7 this post may help. This happened to me and when I looked at “/boot” it looked like: You can see there is the current kernel and three previous kernels … Continue reading
I am setting up a new CentOS 7 server, in 2019, because I want a long life public facing WordPress host that I can update easily. For example when the “Heartbleed” security bug, in the OpenSSL cryptography library, was discovered … Continue reading
I have two primary servers I use all the time, the first is the WordPress VM which run the Zoyinc website and secondly a VM that runs MythTV. Both are currently running Fedora – WordPress is on F18 and MythTV … Continue reading
I have an aging MythTV frontend and separate backend that I need to upgrade. The plan of attack is to create a new system, get it running smoothly and work out a migration strategy. Then once the new system is … Continue reading
I run WordPress on Apache 2.2 on RedHat. A WordPress instance, is just a bunch of PHP files, various image files and uploaded files and a database – that’s pretty much it. So to backup and restore you need to … Continue reading
My kit for this exercise is: SonicWall: TZ 215, (SonicOS Enhanced 5.9.1.10-1o) SonicWall setup This section creates the SonicWall stuff that takes the VLAN from the VMware ESX host and connects it to a SonicWall interface port. To keep everything … Continue reading
As a user of the Weaver WordPress theme I have moved to using the Weaver sliders in my posts. This is how to create a slider. Click on “Add Media”: Then: select the images you want, remember if you want … Continue reading