Depending on your time zone, PHP 7 was finally released on 3rd/4th of December 2015. Even though the general recommendation for production servers is to wait for a little bit and gather some experiences before upgrading, some of us want to jump right on and upgrade to PHP 7.
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Block access to PHP files on your WordPress site with Nginx
In your WordPress site, there are directories that include PHP files that visitors should never be able to access directly. They are only there for WordPress to function as an application that runs on your server. But because of WordPress’ directory and file structure, they are kind of accessible to the public. All of themContinue reading “Block access to PHP files on your WordPress site with Nginx”
Strict file ownership for your WordPress installation
As WordPress only requires write access to one single directory, you can setup your server to run WordPress in a much more secure manner with strict file ownership.
Running PHP7-FPM Nightly Build on Ubuntu 14.04
As I’m writing this, the calendar shows April 14 2015. According to the PHP 7.0 timeline, it has a projected release date of November 2015. But if you want to try it out (to check out the speed), you can already do so.
Running HHVM with fallback to PHP-FPM
HHVM can really speed up your PHP-based web site. Most reports are somewhere in the range of 2–4x faster. Unfortunately, HHVM isn’t very stable and will suddenly die, just of the blue, from time to another. Fortunately, if you’re running Nginx it’s really easy to set up PHP-FPM as a fallback.
Running HHVM instead of PHP with Nginx on Ubuntu
Since version 3.9, WordPress have been 100% compatible with HHVM and I have begun replacing PHP with it on a few of my servers to experiment.
Install latest version of PHP on Ubuntu
I always run the latest LTS version of Ubuntu on all my servers. Currently the latest LTS is 14.04 which comes with PHP version 5.5, but as of November 2014, the latest stable version is 5.6. So how do you get an updated, current version of PHP without resorting to having to maintain the packages yourself? TheContinue reading “Install latest version of PHP on Ubuntu”