Tag: Command-line

WP-CLI is a command line tool for interacting with and managing WordPress sites. In our previous article on How to Install WP-CLI we covered the process of installing WP-CLI onto a server. We did this in a way that the tool would be accessible by any user on the server. This prevents the need for your users to install the tool locally.

Sometimes you may find your server in a state of high load caused by out control of processes. First you’ll want to use a command like htop, top, or ps, to get an idea on the server’s current state. If you aren’t familiar with those utilities we’d suggest checking our our article on htop.

This article is a follow up to a previous article on the process of backing up a WordPress database with wp-cli. You may want to read that article before this one.

Featured Freeware highlights some of the Liquid Web staff’s favorite free software. This can range from useful command line tools, open-source packages useful in web-development, or even multi-platform applications. This week we are covering a treasured favorite, htop.

In this article you will learn how to backup your WordPress database using the wp-cli tool. Knowing how to backup your database is a critical skill to have when running a WordPress site. All your posts, pages, and more live in your database; keeping backups is critical.

Introduction

Git is an open source, distributed version control system (VCS). It’s commonly used for source code management (SCM), with sites like GitHub offering a social coding experience, and popular projects such as Perl, Ruby on Rails, and the Linux kernel using it.

Pre-Flight Check

• These instructions are intended specifically for checking your version of cPanel or WHM via the command line or the WHM dashboard.
• I’ll be working from a Liquid Web Managed CentOS 7 server, and I’ll be logged in as root.

Method #1: Checking the Version of cPanel / WHM by the ‘cpanel’ Command

Using the cPanel command:

Pre-Flight Check

• These instructions are intended specifically for removing a user on Ubuntu 15.04.
• I’ll be working from a Liquid Web Self Managed Ubuntu 15.04 server, and I’ll be logged in as root.

Pre-Flight Check

• These instructions are intended specifically for checking the installed version of glibc.
• I’ll be working from a Liquid Web Self Managed Fedora 22 server, and I’ll be logged in as root.