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  • BACK TO KNOWLEDGE BASE OVERVIEW

CONNECT TO YOUR SERVERS BY SSH

Add default SSH Keys
August 25, 2022
Connect to a vCanopy server by SSH as Root user
August 24, 2022
Generate SSH Key on Mac/Linux
August 24, 2022
Generate SSH Key on Windows with Putty
August 24, 2022
Generate SSH Key on Windows with Windows Subsystem for Linux
August 23, 2022
Generate SSH Key on Windows with Windows CMD/PowerShell
August 23, 2022

CONNECT TO YOUR SERVERS BY SFTP

Connect to a vCanopy Server by SFTP as System User
August 25, 2022
Connect to a vCanopy Server by SFTP as Root user
August 24, 2022

MANAGING SYSTEM USERS

Add New System Users and Manage Existing Users on Your vCanopy Servers
October 28, 2022
Change the Site Owner (System User) of a vCanopy Site
October 28, 2022
Change the Site Owner (System User) of a vCanopy Site
August 25, 2022
Add New System Users and Manage Existing Users on Your vCanopy Servers
August 10, 2022
How to Delete System Users
August 8, 2022
How to change a System User Password
August 8, 2022

ACTIVE SERVER MANAGEMENT TASKS

Delete an Active vCanopy Server
August 24, 2022
Rename an Active vCanopy Server and/or Change a Server IP Address
August 24, 2022
Cloning One Entire Server to Another
August 18, 2022
Server Status and the vCanopy Token
August 9, 2022

WORKING WITH SERVERS

How do I create cronjobs?
August 22, 2022
How to install Ioncube Loaders
August 18, 2022
Utilizing Block Storage through Digital Ocean, Vultr, etc
August 18, 2022
Scaling up (resizing) your API provisioned servers
August 16, 2022
Useful Commands for Managing vCanopy Servers
August 8, 2022
Getting to know the command line: Linux CLI basics
August 8, 2022

WORKING WITH NGINX

Nginx Configurations for Plugins

vCanopy offers A LOT of options for managing your websites and servers. Here you’ll find documentation on each of the features available directly in your account that you can manage from your dashboard.
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Making Nginx Accept PUT, DELETE and PATCH verbs
August 24, 2022
How to Create Nginx Redirects (with Examples)
August 18, 2022
Nginx Rate Limiting and Plugins (Including Oxygen)
August 17, 2022
How to add your own custom Nginx headers (or reset existing headers)
August 17, 2022
Redirects with non-existent PHP files
August 16, 2022
PUT Requests for the WooCommerce API and Other Plugins
August 4, 2022
Additional Security Measure Nginx Includes and Whitelisting
August 3, 2022
Increasing Timeouts on vCanopy Nginx Servers
August 3, 2022
OPTIONS Requests and Nginx Servers
August 2, 2022
How to Block Bad Bots from Your Sites/Servers
July 29, 2022
How to Reduce Eric Jones Spam (and all the other Contact Form Spam)
July 28, 2022
vCanopy Nginoil – Automatically Fix Nginx Syntax Errors
July 28, 2022
How to Set up Custom Rate Limiting in Nginx
July 28, 2022
Using the stub_status module on vCanopy Nginx Servers (ngx_http_stub_status_module)
July 28, 2022
How to Stop WordPress Comment Spam Permanently (for FREE)
July 27, 2022

WORKING WITH OPENLITESPEED (OLS)

Getting Started with vCanopy OpenLiteSpeed (OLS)
August 3, 2022
Allow or Deny IP Addresses on OpenLiteSpeed
August 2, 2022
Additional Security Measure Whitelisting on OpenLiteSpeed (OLS)
August 1, 2022
How to add your own custom headers on OpenLiteSpeed (or reset existing headers)
August 1, 2022
Set Custom Expires by Type on OpenLiteSpeed (OLS)
July 29, 2022
How to Create Server Level Redirects on OpenLiteSpeed (OLS)
July 29, 2022
How to Block Bad Bots from Your Sites/Servers
July 29, 2022
How to Reduce Eric Jones Spam (and all the other Contact Form Spam)
July 28, 2022
OpenLiteSpeed (OLS) Caching and the LiteSpeed Cache Plugin (LSCache)
July 28, 2022
How to Stop WordPress Comment Spam Permanently (for FREE)
July 27, 2022

SNAPSHOT FAILOVER™

How to Setup Snapshot Failover™ with DNS Made Easy
August 22, 2022
Snapshot Failover™ and DNS Strategy
August 4, 2022
How to Setup Snapshot Failover™ with Cloudflare
July 29, 2022

SERVER LOGS

vCanopy Logs – How to Find Them and When to Use Them
August 4, 2022
Using the MySQL Slow Log
July 28, 2022

MONIT SERVER STATS

Adjusting MySQL Monit Memory
August 18, 2022
Monit SSL Renewal Failure Notification in the Dashboard or Slack
August 17, 2022
Why Can’t I Access My Server Stats (Monit) / PHPMyAdmin (PHPMA)?
August 17, 2022
A Guide to Monit/Slack Notifications
August 5, 2022
Manually Configure Monit/Slack Notifications for Disk Space Warnings
August 5, 2022
Configure Monit Service Management and Notifications with GP-CLI
August 3, 2022
Viewing Your Monit Notification History
August 3, 2022
How to Manually Renew Monit and PHPMyAdmin SSL Certificates
August 2, 2022
Using the vCanopy Monit Stats and Service Manager
August 1, 2022
An Overview of vCanopy Git Options: Full and Hybrid Repo Types
July 21, 2022
V2 Backups Part 4. Troubleshooting & Backups Failure Notifications
July 21, 2022

MONITORING YOUR SERVERS

An Introduction to CPU Steal, I/O wait and the top command
August 16, 2022
How to setup Netdata on your vCanopy Servers
August 16, 2022
How to use the top command to monitor system processes and resource usage
August 9, 2022
How to use the htop command to monitor system processes and resource usage
August 9, 2022
Installing and Configuring New Relic for WordPress
August 2, 2022
Troubleshooting High Disk Space Usage and Locating Large Files
July 27, 2022

WORKING WITH DATABASES

Connect a desktop MySQL client with a database by SSH as root
August 25, 2022
Connect to your vCanopy Site Database with PHPMyAdmin
August 25, 2022
MySQL is taking up a LOT of disk space. Why?
August 22, 2022
How to optimize databases to reduce bloat
August 18, 2022
Change password of a database user
August 18, 2022
Adjusting MySQL Monit Memory
August 18, 2022
How do I access my Staging Databases?
August 18, 2022
Diagnosing and Fixing: Error Establishing a Database Connection
August 18, 2022
How to backup / export / import a WordPress database
August 16, 2022
Converting MyISAM to InnoDB
August 16, 2022
vCanopy Database Rewrites and Workflow
August 2, 2022
How to Fix the PHPMyAdmin “Bad Userdata” Error
July 29, 2022

CONNECTING TO YOUR DATABASES

Connect a desktop MySQL client with a database by SSH as root
August 25, 2022
Connect to your vCanopy Site Database with PHPMyAdmin
August 25, 2022
Change password of a database user
August 18, 2022
How do I access my Staging Databases?
August 18, 2022

GP-CLI

Service Management: Nginx
August 24, 2022
Service Management: PHP
August 24, 2022
Service Management: Redis
August 24, 2022
Service Management: MySQL
August 24, 2022
Site Firewalls: 6G
August 24, 2022
Site Firewalls: ModSec
August 24, 2022
GP WP-CLI
August 24, 2022
Configure PHP
August 24, 2022
Configure MySQL
August 24, 2022
Configure Nginx
August 23, 2022
Suspend/Disable a Website
August 18, 2022
Set a vCanopy site as the Default Site for Nginx
August 18, 2022
Configuring Fail2Ban to Prevent Brute Force Attacks
August 17, 2022
WordPress Website Hardening for Nginx and OpenLiteSpeed (OLS)
August 17, 2022
Brotli Compression and vCanopy
August 8, 2022
Table of Contents
  1. Connect to Your Servers by SSH
  2. Connect to Your Servers by SFTP
  3. Managing System Users
  4. Active Server Management Tasks
  5. Working with Servers
  6. Working with Nginx
  7. Working with OpenLiteSpeed (OLS)
  8. Snapshot Failover™
  9. Server Logs
  10. Monit Server Stats
  11. Monitoring Your Servers
  12. Working with Databases
    – Connecting to Your Databases
  13. GP-CLI 

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