Download failed.: cURL error 2:

I upgraded my WordPress host to CentOS7 with PHP7.3 and everything seemed fine until I went to upgrade and I got: Update WordPressDownloading update from https://downloads.wordpress.org/release/en_NZ/wordpress-5.4.2.zip…Download failed.: cURL error 2:Installation Failed Also from Health check Communicating with the WordPress servers … Continue reading

Cannot mount block device : Error mounting CentOS share on OMV

I needed to have a scheduled job to copy files from my MythTV server to my Open Media Vault server, but when I tried to mount the Samba/SMB share I got the following: root@nas2:/mnt# mount -t cifs \\\\192.168.202.44\\public /mnt/192.168.202.44 -o … Continue reading

CentOS 7 VM for WordPress and MythTV – Post install setup

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

CentOS 7 + PHP 7.2 + Python 3.6 + Apache 2.4

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