| I was quite surprised to find my server had been somewhat “compromised” so to speak. I was always focused on fighting spam in email, but overlooked other vulnerabilities. Occasionally I would happen to notice strange wiki entry references in the logs. I never put two and two together until today. I used group permissions to override the default “unauthenticated user” and only permit those authorized users to post. [...] I saw the notice on the blog admin pages… I saw the tweets… Ok, let’s go ahead and upgrade to the latest and greatest WordPress. And that’s when the trouble began. [...] It’s small in the scheme of things, but a big upgrade for the site. I’ve migrated (not without pain, but that’s for another post) from the old G5 single core box running Leopard Server 10.5.8, to a new dual core Intel box, running Snow Leopard Server (10.6.1.) [...] After never being able to upgrade WordPress in any sort of automatic, or painless, way, I’ve finally stumbled upon a configuration that seems to work. In the end, it’s all a matter of ownership and permissions, at least in my case. [...] On my quest to figure out SEO, Search Engine Optimization. I still don’t understand (well, maybe I’m starting to) why my site doesn’t show in Google. [...] Still playing with WordPress, the blog in general, and the server. Still have so much to learn. Someday, maybe, just maybe I will figure it out, but I doubt it. [...] I don’t know where Saturday went… Well, I do, really. Spent all day updating to the newest (stable) release of WordPress. Version 2.8 can be found here. I will admit that while the blog doesn’t look like much (would probably be more interesting if I ever had something to say) but it does [...] [...] Don’t know what the problem is, but checked the server again when there seemed to be problems with mail. Found out it wasn’t mail directly, but rather the CPU was experiencing extremely high CPU utilization again. Once again, it was running high for a couple of days. Need to be more diligent and monitor it more [...] [...] Hadn’t had a chance to look at the server since the upgrades and installation of WordPress over the weekend. Decided to take a quick look remotely with Server Admin. Saw that CPU usage on the server was 80-100%!!! Wow! Had been running like that since June 1. It almost appears some process didn’t execute properly [...] [...] Ok, start over might be better. Decided, after some thought over time, that the “old” Mac OS X Server blog / wiki just didn’t cut it. I really wanted to add Woopra, but for the life of me haven’t been able to figure how to edit that wealth of CSS, PHP, and other components of [...] [...] | |