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Wordpress MarsEdit Problem Doesn't Show Categories Varnish xmlrpc.php

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

External Wordpress editors like MarsEdit doesn’t show categories or tags

I just installed Varnish Cache on my website to speed up load time with great success. But after loading my favorite Mac blog editor MarsEdit, when doing a refresh, all the categories and tags disappeared! I realized that it must have something to do with Varnish blocking the requests between the external blog editor and Wordpress, but I haven’t had time to really learn all the intricacies of vcl. As usual Google came to the rescue, and I found [this post in Swedish that solved the problem]). I’d thought I might regurgitate the solution here in English for other with the same problem.

Ubuntu Server WordPress with W3 Total Cache install

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Initial installation Ubuntu Server

Last time I configured my web server with Ubuntu Server, I had problems finding all the instructions on what and how to install everything needed to get a WordPress blog with W3 Total Cache, CDN, Apache2 MPM Worker and fcgi working. So this is my attempt to write down the steps needed to get the server going. You might find it of interest if your needs are similar to mine. Here’s the requirements for my WordPress blog.

Apache MPM Worker threaded version
APC PHP Opcode optimizer
All the required modules for W3 Total Cache
Graphics libraries for Mint statistics

MAMP WordPress Error establishing a database connection

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve installed MAMP on my Mac to do some changes to my blog. I tried to set the WordPress wp-config.php file to connect to localhost:8889, but got an error that It could not connect to the database. After replacing localhost:8889 to 127.0.0.1:8889 it works. My quick guess is that permissions for the root user is set to allow connections 127.0.0.1, but not localhost. Anyway, it works now.

My wp-config.php file looks like this: