Recently I noticed a few of my servers had stopped serving my sites, withย 502 errors being to visitors. I took a look at my site logs and noticed that they were full of the “Permission Denied” errors below: 2014/06/09 09:45:17 [crit] 11453#0: *22 connect() to unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock failed (13: Permission…
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Nginx: Locking Down The WordPress Backend By IP Address
I recently looked at the server logs for a new site that had just launched and noticed alot of hits by random IP addresses being made to the WordPress login script. Similar to the excerpt below: [codesyntax lang=”text”] 182.18.209.4 – – [10/Jun/2013:07:33:26 -0400] “POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1” 200 4807 “drinknycity.com/wp-login.php” “Mozilla/5.0…
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PHP CGI 504 Gateway Timed Out Errors With Nginx
Recently I noticed that the nginx error log for a site I was working with was filling up with timeout messages similar to below: 2012/07/06 17:21:01 [error] 23897#0: *8870 upstream timed out (110: Connection timed out) while reading response header from upstream, client: 173.25.1.129, server: project.com, request: “GET /jobs/update HTTP/1.0”,…
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