Diagnosing and Fixing SSL Certificate Issues

CONTENTS Diagnosing SSL Failures Maintenance at Let’s Encrypt, DNSME, or Cloudflare DNS Isn’t Pointing to Your Servers IP Address (Webroot method only) vCanopy SSL Locks Let’s Encrypt Rate Limiting A Wildcard SSL won’t provision You have an SSL Certificate but no Padlock Icon SSL Renewal Warnings and Failures Too Many Redirects Error SSL Error Only on www Version […]

A Guide to Monit/Slack Notifications

vCanopy has a very handy integration for Slack that will send you notifications about Monit activities, errors and warnings. We highly recommend that you take advantage of them, and you can learn how to do just that in this guide: How to set up Slack Notifications This article will focus on the actual notifications you […]

Cloudflare’s CDN and Upload Limitations

Cloudflare offer a great free service, and a part of that service is their CDN. This is available to all plans, including the free tier. If, however, you are using Cloudflares CDN and are trying to upload large files to your website, you may run into an issue with their upload size (HTTP POST request […]

vCanopy Logs – How to Find Them and When to Use Them

Introduction  Knowing where your logs are and what they keep track of is an important part of managing your WordPress web hosting business. In this article, we’ll take a look at where you can go to view your server logs, and when you might want to check them. Some, for example the SSL log and […]

PUT Requests for the WooCommerce API and Other Plugins

UPDATE – PUT AND DELETE REQUESTS PUT and DELETE requests are no longer blocked on Nginx servers by default, however, you may still need to configure the dav_methods outlined in this article for your website if the requires them. Introduction  Modern servers do not allow for PUT or DELETE requests to be available by default. On Nginx, these aren’t […]

WP_MEMORY_LIMIT and vCanopy WordPress Websites

Introduction Every now again we’re asked a variation of this question on support: “Why does [insert plugin name] say that the WP_MEMORY_LIMIT is set to 40M? “ The short answer is that the plugin is likely looking at the wp-config.php file and not seeing this explicitly defined, and then returning the default 40M back, instead of […]