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How to Get an 'A' Rating From Qualys SSL Labs if Your DNS Is Cloudflare and You Use OpenLiteSpeed as Your Wordpress Web Server

7 April 2024·255 words·2 mins

Technology Openlitespeed Wordpress Cloudflare Tls Ssl Qualys

By default, when you set up a WordPress site using OpenLiteSpeed (https://openlitespeed.org), you’ll get a “B” rating in Qualys SSL Labs SSL test at https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/. And even if you set up your minimum TLS version on Cloudflare to be TLS 1.2, Qualys reports your website still uses TLS 1.1. The following steps allow you to fix the certificate issue and get an “A” rating.

Resolve "Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance" error in Wordpress

27 December 2023·73 words·1 min

Website Technology Wordpress

Cause - happens when a plugin update gets ‘stuck’ or when trying to update multiple plugins at the same time in WordPress. If it doesn’t go away: SSH to the server (or FTP) Navigate to the web root directory. It’s /var/www/html for Apache and Nginx generally. Navigate to the root folder of the website as you might have more than one website running. Find and delete the file called “.maintenance”. (rm foobar) 🎀

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