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Defensio

Posted on the January 22nd, 2010 under Blogger, Wordpress by akuadi

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Defensio ? What is that .. Look like the defend system right. Defensio is one of the new application to protect your social web (blog, facebook ) from spam, malware, malicious content,unwanted URLs. You can use this application on facebook, wordpress and Drupal

For bloggers this software is same like Akismet. But this software more easy to manage. Firstly you need to register and get your personal account at Defensio. You will get your API key. Use this key after you finish the installation of Defensio.

For the Facebook users, its easy just click on this link Defensio Application, then you can manage your filtering session.

 

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Here is the some of the category of the blocker.

Source from : Defensio

Security
  • Hacking
  • Proxy avoidance
  • Bot networks
  • Keyloggers
  • Malicious websites
  • Phishing and fraud
  • Potentially unwanted / adware
  • Spyware
Legal Liabilities
  • Adult material
  • Gambling
  • Illegal / Questionable
  • Racism and hate
  • Sex
  • Tasteless
Extended Protection & Reputation
  • Potentially damaging content
  • Elevated exposure
  • Emerging exploits

Install WordPress on Linux Machine

Posted on the October 24th, 2009 under Blogger, Linux, Wordpress by akuadi

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This is the perfect tutorial, how to install wordpress on Linux Server. For this tutorial, my machine running on Centos 5.4.

[root@server1 ~]# uname -a;date;uptime
Linux server1 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP Thu Sep 3 03:33:56 EDT 2009 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
Sat Oct 24 17:52:06 MYT 2009
17:52:06 up  2:17,  2 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.03
[root@server1 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 5.4 (Final)
[root@server1 ~]#

Firstly make sure your system already have this 3 package if not follow the 1st step,

1. Install http*, mysql* php*

[root@server1 ~]# yum -y install httpd* mysql* php*

2. Create the new database called “wordpress”

[root@server1 ~]# mysqladmin -u root -p create wordpress

3. Download latest WordPress package

[root@server1 tmp]# wget http://wordpress.org/latest.zip
–2009-10-24 17:27:23–  http://wordpress.org/latest.zip
Resolving wordpress.org… 72.233.56.138, 72.233.56.139
Connecting to wordpress.org|72.233.56.138|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: unspecified [application/zip]
Saving to: `latest.zip’

[                                                 <=>                ] 2,354,670    136K/s   in 18s 2009-10-24 17:27:42 (129 KB/s) – `latest.zip’ saved [2354670]

4. Unzip latest.zip that contains the WordPress installation file.

[root@server1 tmp]# unzip latest.zip

[root@server1tmp]# ls
latest.zip  wordpress
[root@server1 tmp]# cd wordpress

5. Copy all file in the WordPress folder to directory /var/www/html

[root@server1 wordpress]# cp -a * /var/www/html

6. Rename file wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php

[root@server1 wordpress]# cd /var/www/html
[root@server1 html]# mv wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php

7. Edit the config file : wp-config.php

[root@server1 html]# vi wp-config.php

* Edit this 3 line to

define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’);
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘root’);
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘mysqlrootpass’);

and replace to this one

// ** MySQL settings – You can get this info from your web host ** //

/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’);

/** MySQL database username */
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘root’);

/** MySQL database password */
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘**********’);

7. Open your web browser and go to http://yourdomain.com and follow the setup process. Just enter your blog name and email address. After that it will generate user name and password for you. Please change the password after that.

Upgrade Wordpress in Linux

Posted on the December 18th, 2008 under Blogger, Wordpress by akuadi

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Here i attach and show how to upgrade the wordpress using Linux Workstation.. I just copy it from http://www.cyberciti.biz/

Upgrade Wordpress 2.7 in 3 Simple Steps

by Vivek Gite [Last updated: December 11, 2008]

Wordpress version 2.7 has been released and can be upgraded easily using UNIX / Linux shell prompt. A few assumptions:

  1. Wordpress database name: wptheosblog
  2. Wordpress directory name: /var/www/html/theos.in
  3. Wordpress domain name: theos.in
  4. Operating system: Linux
WARNING! If you are not comfortable with UNIX shell prompt (IF YOU ARE new to a UNIX/Linux os), please follow traditional way of upgrading wordpress and DO NOT use the three Steps described here.

Step # 1: Backup old files and database

If you run into problems Upgrading WordPress with the three Steps described here, you need to revert to your old version. Login to your hosting account using ssh client. Backup your mysql database, enter:
$ mkdir ~/theos.backup
$ mysqldump -u vivek -p 'passWord' -h localhost wptheosblog &gt; ~/theos.backup/wptheosblog.sql
Now backup all existing wordpress files, enter:
$ mkdir ~/theos.backup/old
$ cd /var/www/html/theos.in/
$ cp -avr * ~/theos.backup/old

Next, login to your wordpress and disable all plugins.

Step # 2: Download wordpress 2.7 in /tmp

Type the following command (use wget command to grab latest version):
$ cd /tmp
$ wget http://wordpress.org/latest.zip -O latest.zip
Sample output:

--03:29:37--  http://wordpress.org/latest.zip
Resolving wordpress.org... 72.233.56.139, 72.233.56.138
Connecting to wordpress.org|72.233.56.139|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [application/zip]
Saving to: `latest.zip'

    [         <=>                            ] 1,849,558    987K/s   in 1.8s   

03:29:39 (987 KB/s) - `latest.zip' saved [1849558]

Unzip file, enter:
$ unzip latest.zip

Step # 3: Upgrade wordpress

Overwrite all files, enter:
$ cd /var/www/html/theos.in
$ rm -rf wp-admin wp-includes
$ cp -avr /tmp/wordpress/* .
Fire a browser and type
http://yourblog.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php
OR
http://theos.in/wp-admin/upgrade.php
Login to wordpress admin panel and enable all plugins.

Credit to:

CyberCiti