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Unable to find Akismet servers or The key below was previously validated but a connection to akismet.com can not be established at this time.
October 24th, 2009 by h4x3d.comSeems like either my server’s DNS management is entirely bust or Wordpress/Automattic/Akismet changed something their end, because as discussed yesterday in my cannot resolve downloads.wordpress.org and dashboard (RSS) empty post, the fix is rather straight forward:
add the needed IPs and the corresponding hostname to /etc/hosts (on the server, not local client!),
you can see how to [...]
Cannot resolve downloads.wordpress.org or Wordpress Dashboard empty?
October 23rd, 2009 by h4x3d.comCannot resolve downloads.wordpress.org ?
You are not alone!
I am running Wordpress MU 2.8.4. and till today I have had no issues using the auto upgrade or auto update function of Wordpress Plugins or Wordpress MU Plugins until everything stopped working.
I pretty much googled for one hour and tried different solutions here and there, but nothing really [...]
How to harden your Wordpress install (ssh)
October 23rd, 2009 by h4x3d.comI figured out how to harden wordpress using ssh and some common sense.
I changed ownership (user) of the cache and uploads folder to apache by
chown apache uploads
chown apache cache
to enable apache to write to it
chmod was set to more restrictive value of 755 each instead of easily
exploitable (as it happened on solarvps and zone.net) chmod [...]
