Adding Nginx in Front of WordPress

There are a few drawbacks to the 1-Click install. I’m planning to tinker with something really cool down the road to fix one of those problems (I know the future again). Luckily, I’m going to address my first initial concern in this post. What is that concern you ask? Protecting my WordPress admin of course! Sure, there are a number of WordPress vulnerabilities roaming around and talks of zero days and the sort....

January 7, 2021 · 8 min · Scott

Testing Out the Digital Ocean Container Registry

Disclosure: I have included some affiliate / referral links in this post. There’s no cost to you for accessing these links but I do indeed receive some incentive for it if you buy through them. Building the Custom Nginx This part was pretty easy. I simply created a Dockerfile for the build. FROM ubuntu ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive MAINTAINER Scott Algatt RUN apt-get update \ && apt-get install -y libjansson-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libapr1-dev libaprutil1-dev libssl-dev build-essential devscripts libtool m4 automake pkg-config libpcre3-dev zlib1g-dev\ && apt -y upgrade \ && apt -y autoremove \ && apt-get clean \ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/* \ && curl -o /tmp/nginx....

December 30, 2020 · 3 min · Scott