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How to solve “page cache is not detected but the server response time is ok” in WordPress Site Health.

ByPieter Bakker

If you don’t use any of the popular caching plugins (e.g. WP-Rocket, W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache…), but instead deploy Nginx FastCGI cache for (server side) Full Page Caching, you will probably see the message “page cache is not detected but the server response time is ok” when you run the “Site Health” checker…

Nginx: [warn] protocol options redefined

ByPieter Bakker

If you get an error message “nginx: [warn] protocol options redefined” after upgrading Nginx to the latest stable version 1.24, you can easily fix it by adding “http2” to the 443 “Listen” directive in the default.conf file. vi /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf server { listen 80 default_server; listen [::]:80 default_server; listen 443 default_server http2 ssl; listen [::]:443 default_server…

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Generate SSL certificates with acme.sh on Nginx.

ByPieter Bakker

In this article, we will see how to install and configure “acme.sh” to generate SSL certificates for domains and how to implement it with Nginx to secure the connection to corresponding websites hosted on our web server via “HTTPS”. To optimize the security of connections to the web server and comply with all applicable guidelines,…

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Host Multiple Domains with Nginx on Ubuntu 22.04.

ByPieter Bakker

In a previous article, we showed you how to set up a full LEMP stack on Ubuntu 22.04 with the latest stable version of Nginx, MariaDB and PHP, which will serve as the foundation for a reliable and performance-focused hosting platform. Nginx is a fast, lightweight and powerful web server that can also be used…

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How to install a LEMP stack on Ubuntu 22.04.

ByPieter Bakker

If you’re looking to host your own open source applications, setting up a LEMP (Linux, Nginx, MySQL/MariaDB, PHP) web stack is one of the best choices out there, if not the best. With the latest versions of Nginx, MariaDB, and PHP 8.2, you’ll have a fast and reliable platform for running a wide range of…

Fix 504 Gateway Timeout error using Nginx as reverse Proxy.

ByPieter Bakker

When using Nginx as a reverse proxy for Apache, among others, you may get timeouts with error code 504 if an application takes longer to complete a request than the default Nginx request timeout which is 60 seconds. To increase the request timeout in Nginx to serve long-running requests, we need to change the default…

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Error 413 on large file uploads with Nextcloud behind Nginx reverse proxy.

ByPieter Bakker

If you are running Nextcloud behind a Nginx proxy server, you will need to change the maximum file size for uploads which by default is only 1MB on Nginx. You can use the “client_max_body_size” directive to set the required file size for uploading. This directive can be set in the http, server or location context….