Activating HTTP Authentication on Your Website
Activating HTTP Authentication (often referred to as “HTTP Auth”) on your vCanopy websites is quick and easy. Your account comes equipped with a HTTP Authentication toggle directly in the dashboard. Below we’ll look at how to turn it on and off, and where your username and passwords are located. Part 1: Activating and Deactivating HTTP […]
I Have Deleted My Site! What Do I Do??! How to Quickly Restore a Deleted WordPress Website
Introduction This can be one of the simplest problems to solve IF you’re taking advantage of our backups system. Simply recreate the site and run a backup restore. If not using our backups system then this may be a little trickier. Below we’ll cover the possible options that may be available to you. TABLE OF CONTENTS Use […]
Suspend/Disable a Website
Sometimes you might need to temporarily (or otherwise) suspend/disable a client’s site. For example, this could be due to unpaid invoices, or it could be while you carry out temporary maintenance. Whatever the use case, this is easily done on vCanopy. Below will walk you through the available options. TABLE OF CONTENTS Suspend a Site […]
Set a vCanopy site as the Default Site for Nginx
Introduction Typically, on an Nginx server, if a request to your server can’t be completed then Nginx will choose the first virtual server it can to serve alphanumerically. You might have seen this happen when you have the HSTS header for a site cached in your browser and then you create a new site on […]
How to grant SUPER permissions for your website
Some WordPress plugins require SUPER permissions for the database user. Previously, before we implemented a fix for this issue, if a site needed these permissions, a live->staging or staging->live push will fail, and you may have see nerrors such as: ERROR 1227 (42000) at line 4560 in file: ‘/var/www/site.url/htdocs/sourcedatabase.sql’: Access denied; you need (at least one of) the SUPER […]
Add HTTP Authentication to wp-login.php
If you’re looking to beef up your WordPress login page security, then this guide will help you add an extra layer of security with HTTP authentication. This article will walk you through how to either add this to a specific website, or all websites on a server. vCanopy wp-login-context.conf On your servers there’s an include […]