Day: May 29, 2019

This is one of those thigns that has been bothering me.  I want to limit who can access the wp-admin folder and hence the admin login script.  I've read about how to do it online but have had no positive results.  Apparently when Apache updated the software to 2.4 the game changed and how you use certain features that worked with 2.2 do not work with 2.4 and there's no certain way to testing this absolutely.  What I mean is that I can try them  and then see if I can log in but because of other issues with how apache 2.2 directives may interfere with 2.4 directives causing them all to fail it is not clear which ones correct.

With the samba issue resolved (by removing the mount to the other server) and testing for disconnects the same thing happens.  So, that didn't resolve it.  This has been ongoing for a long while and is quite disconcerting.  I have found a way to mitigate the impact of loosing the connection by using a linux program called "screen".  However this is not the perfect solution.  I have to remember to start it after each connect.  Then if I get a disconnect I need to restart it by attaching to the screen session.  Then I have control of the prior tasks. Since the attempt to resolve it last, I added a second gigabit network card (NIC) and tested more.  Same issue.  That means it isn't the NIC that was the issue. …

Just out of the blue I started getting disconnects both locally and over the internet when I used SSH.  For years prior to this everything just boomed along.  Nary an issue to speak of.  But all of the sudden out of the blue these disconnects started happening and the tasks that were running over SSH were dropped, often resulting in me taking a lot of extra effort to correct or restart the task. This is annoying.  And since it was random and even when something was happening down the channel and it would affect every device no matter what it was doing I've been growing disconcerted. I did look into this.  I tried to remember things that had changed.  Some of those changes were like: I picked up three used…