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PHP 8 and Nginx on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Tutorial 17 October, 2021

I needed to set up instances running PHP 8 a few times to test that my WordPress plugins and composer packages work on PHP 8. I also have…

About Shortdark 01 January, 2021

I am a web developer living in Sheffield, UK who has mainly been developing websites in PHP. My Career Timeline 1999 Taught myself HTML, CSS…

Optimizing MySQL Queries 22 April, 2019

When you first build a website the database may seem fast. All your queries may get executed quickly. But, after a while when the database…

Moving a WordPress Blog to Different Hosting 08 July, 2018

2022 Update This post was written in 2018 and while I think most of the article still applies, there are other methods to deploy a WordPress…

Upgrading from Debian 8 (Jessie) to Debian 9 (Stretch) 14 March, 2018

Previously, I looked at setting up Debian 8 with PHP 7.0. But now, Debian 9 is the current stable version and Debian 8 is only due to…

MySQL in the Command Line 04 March, 2018

Following the setting up a Linux webserver tutorial. You may also wish to create a MySQL database. First, install MySQL in the Linux console…

Setting up a Linux Webserver with SSH in 20 Steps (Debian 8) 19 March, 2017

Here is a guide to Setting up a Linux Webserver with SSH. This is for Debian 8 (Jessie) although other versions of Debian will be similar…