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LEMP stack meaning

What is the meaning of LEMP stack? It is an acronym that stands for: Linux Nginx MySQL PHP And yes it’s a little funny that the “E” stands for Nginx, but it was trying to be similar to the LAMP stack acronym so they chose “E” to make it sound nice. The “Eeee” sound is […]

IP Address Blocks

Here are IP blocks you should whitelist in Cloudflare firewall:   https://uptimerobot.com/help/locations/

What Core Maintenance does your team do?

As we are still in beta, new files and features are still being added regularly. However in the long-term, our team (or whoever forks SlickStack) would need to keep the following in mind: The root crontab is the “holy” part of SlickStack, the only file that can’t self-heal. It absolutely must install correctly during initial […]

Running apt update && upgrade

**Can I run apt update && apt upgrade without issues?** Yes, you can. The entire point of SlickStack is to be a lightweight group of Bash scripts that save you time without adding bloat to your stack (and reducing most learning curves). Your LEMP stack will be just like any other LEMP stack tutorial you […]

TMPFS disabled default

**Why don’t you use TMPFS or similar?** For stability reasons, we don’t use any tpmfs (memory-based storage) for caching or otherwise, as it introduces more instability, possible data loss, and doesn’t necessarily improve performance. What people people don’t realize is Linux already uses tmpfs for its own purposes, and already stores many “requests” in RAM. […]

ss-config-sample misnomer

**Why ss-config-sample and not ss-config-example?** Because we aim to mirror WordPress Core as much as possible. Because the misnomer has existed in WordPress since the beginning, the WP Core team has [no intention](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/43827) of changing it.

Config files location

**But shouldn’t configs be outside the public root?** There’s lots of “should” and theorizing in computer programming, but one reason for the success of WordPress is its pragmatism and user-friendliness. There’s plenty to criticize about WordPress from the perspective of things like “12-factor apps” but let’s remember that WordPress was around before many of these […]

default PHP packages

**What is the complete list of PHP-FPM packages installed?** dpkg –get-selections | grep -i php php-common install php-igbinary install php-redis install php7.2 install php7.2-bcmath install php7.2-cli install php7.2-common install php7.2-curl install php7.2-fpm install php7.2-gd install php7.2-json install php7.2-mbstring install php7.2-mysql install php7.2-opcache install php7.2-readline install php7.2-soap install php7.2-xml install php7.2-zip install

default PHP extensions

**What is the complete list of PHP-FPM modules installed?** php -m [PHP Modules] bcmath calendar Core ctype curl date dom exif fileinfo filter ftp gd gettext hash iconv igbinary json libxml mbstring mysqli mysqlnd openssl pcntl pcre PDO pdo_mysql Phar posix readline redis Reflection session shmop SimpleXML soap sockets sodium SPL standard sysvmsg sysvsem sysvshm […]

default Nginx packages

**What is the complete list of Nginx packages installed?** dpkg –get-selections | grep -i nginx libnginx-mod-http-auth-pam install libnginx-mod-http-cache-purge install libnginx-mod-http-dav-ext install libnginx-mod-http-echo install libnginx-mod-http-fancyindex install libnginx-mod-http-geoip install libnginx-mod-http-headers-more-filter install libnginx-mod-http-image-filter install libnginx-mod-http-lua install libnginx-mod-http-ndk install libnginx-mod-http-perl install libnginx-mod-http-subs-filter install libnginx-mod-http-uploadprogress install libnginx-mod-http-upstream-fair install libnginx-mod-http-xslt-filter install libnginx-mod-mail install libnginx-mod-nchan install libnginx-mod-stream install nginx-common install nginx-extras install

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