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How to Remove Query Strings From Static Resources in WordPress

When it comes to WordPress performance, this question comes up quite a bit, and that is how to remove query strings from static resources. Your CSS and JavaScript files usually have the file version on the end of their URLs, such as www.prado.lt/style.css?ver=4.9.5. Some servers and proxy servers are unable to cache query strings, even if a cache-control:public header is present. So by removing them, you can sometimes improve your caching. This will also fix that warning you see in GTmetrix and Pingdom called “Remove query strings from static resources.”

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Security & bug fix releases PHP 5.6.36, 7.0.30, 7.1.17, 7.2.5

Security & bug fix releases

http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.6.36

http://php.net/ChangeLog-7.php#7.0.30

http://php.net/ChangeLog-7.php#7.1.17

http://php.net/ChangeLog-7.php#7.2.5

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.2.5. This is a security release which also contains several minor bug fixes.

All PHP 7.2 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.0.30. This is a security release. Several security bugs have been fixed in this release. All PHP 7.0 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

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DirectAdmin announced that all DirectAdmin and CustomBuild 2.0 now support MySQL 5.7

Hello,

DirectAdmin announced that all DirectAdmin and CustomBuild 2.0 now support MySQL 5.7.

Related changes done to DirectAdmin to support it:
https://www.directadmin.com/features.php?id=1840

It was actually added back in DA 1.52.0 (October 2017), while DA 1.53.0 is the current version, but wasn’t announced right away to give time for proper testing, which seems to all check out now.

MAKE SQL BACKUPS BEFORE UPGRADING see below.

CustomBuild 2.0 should automatically set the mysql_milestone_16=1 directadmin.conf value for you, so as long as CB2 does the upgrade, you should be fine.

To do the upgrade from an older MySQL version to MySQL 5.7, run:

Code:
cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild
./build set mysql 5.7
./build set mysql_inst mysql
./build set mysql_backup yes
./build update

#make a backup that wont be overwritten, rename the folder
./build mysql_backup
mv mysql_backups mysql_backups.`date +%F`

./build mysql
./build php n
service httpd restart

Related guide:
https://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=240

If you’re running MariaDB, then switching to MySQL might not be 100% straightforward, as higher versions of MariaDB cannot be directly switched over. But (for example), if you’re running a working MariaDB 5.5, then switch to MySQL 5.5, then switch to MySQL 5.7.

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[DirectAdmin] How to upgrade MariaDB 10.2.14 with custombuild 2.0

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 10.2.14 and MariaDB 10.1.32, both stable releases, as well as MariaDB Connector/J 2.2.3, the latest stable release in the MariaDB Connector/J 2.2 series, and MariaDB Connector/J 1.7.3, the latest stable release in the MariaDB Connector/J 1.7 series. See the release notes and changelogs for details.

wget https://downloads.mariadb.org/f/mariadb-10.2.14/bintar-linux-x86_64/mariadb-10.2.14-linux-x86_64.tar.gz/from/http%3A//mariadb.mirror.serveriai.lt/?serve -O mariadb-10.2.14-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
perl -pi -e "s#mariadb10.2:.*#mariadb10.2:10.2.14:fd03510308c0387497416d63ebfe8fb9#" versions.txt
./build mariadb
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Security & bug fix releases PHP 5.6.35, 7.0.29, 7.1.16, 7.2.4

Security & bug fix releases

http://fi2.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.6.35

http://fi2.php.net/ChangeLog-7.php#7.0.29

http://fi2.php.net/ChangeLog-7.php#7.1.16

http://fi2.php.net/ChangeLog-7.php#7.2.4

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.2.4. This is a security release with also contains several minor bug fixes.

All PHP 7.2 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

For source downloads of PHP 7.2.4 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

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Dotdeb packages the public key is not available

WARNING: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY E9C74FEEA2098A6E

Waiting for a dotdeb-keyring package, you just have to get the key and add it to your trusted keys’ keyring :

gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-key E9C74FEEA2098A6E
gpg -a --export E9C74FEEA2098A6E | apt-key add -

I hope you’ll enjoy it.

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Using Fail2Ban to block WordPress login attacks

Introduction

WordPress is a very robust content-management system (CMS) that is free and open source. Because anyone can comment, create an account, and post on WordPress, many malicious actors have created networks of bots and servers that compromise and spam WordPress sites through brute-force attacks.

Fail2Ban is an intrusion prevention software framework that protects computer servers from brute-force attacks. Written in the Python programming language, it is able to run on POSIX systems that have an interface to a packet-control system or firewall installed locally.

Note: In this guide, we will be using version 0.9.6 of Fail2ban on an Debian 9.4 server, but most of it should apply to other distributions as well.

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