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Disable Joomla Contacts component (com_contact) in MySQL / phpMyAdmin

How-to disable Joomla’s built-in contact forms component and its ability to send a copy to the sender, directly in your MySQL database using phpMyAdmin

Often the built-in Joomla contact forms component (com_contact) is abused by spammers. These contact forms allow the sender to receive a copy of the form contents. All spammers need to do is enter the email address of the target as sender/from. This way, anyone can use the Joomla contact form for spamming anyone. This short article explains how to disable and combat this.

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Disable WordPress XCloner Plugin logger in MySQL / phpMyAdmin

by Jan Reilink

If XCloner Logger option is enabled, it will store a log file inside the xcloner-XXXXX folder inside the backup archive. The file is named xcloner-xxxxx.log. This can generate a huge amount of temporary files and log files on your file system. This short article provides you one SQL statement to disable XCloner log directly in your WordPress MySQL database, using phpMyAdmin.

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How to Fix Yoast SEO for WordPress DeleteDuplicateIndexables MySQL error

by Jan Reilink

In recent days, there are a number of reports about broken Yoast SEO database operations, related to the DeleteDuplicateIndexables function. The PHP function is located in the file wordpress-seo\src\config\migrations\20200507054848_DeleteDuplicateIndexables.php, and in this post I’ll provide you with a possible fix for this statement. Read on.

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Reduce Wordfence CPU usage, disable Wordfence “Live Traffic View”

by Jan Reilink

Whenever WordPress is using a lot of CPU and you have Wordfence Security plugin enabled, it is recommended to double check some settings. Unfortunately the Wordfence “Live Traffic Options” (“Traffic logging mode”) feature can cause high CPU usage and load issues for WordPress websites. Therefore, I recommend you disable this feature to improve the performance of your WordPress website.

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ASP and ASP.NET connection string examples for Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL

by Jan Reilink

A connection string is sometimes a bit obscure. Do I need ODBC or OLE DB? When you need one and Google for it, you often find old ones that either don’t work at all anymore, or are not optimal. This article provides you with a couple of ASP.NET to SQL Server connection string examples, and as a bonus for ASP to MySQL too.

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MySQL Connector/ODBC C# test script

by Jan Reilink

Whenever you need to test your ASP.NET connection to your MySQL database, using ODBC, you can use the following C# test script. Currently it uses MySQL ODBC 8.0 Unicode Driver, but you can easily change the version used. As a bonus it prints some connection information and it requires an SSL connection to your MySQL database (SslMode=REQUIRED).

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How to use SSL in PHP Data Objects (PDO) mysql

by Jan Reilink

Connect to MySQL with PHP PDO using an SSL encrypted connection

If you want to connect securely to your MySQL database over SSL using PHP Data Objects (PDO), here is how…

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Restore single MySQL table from a full mysqldump backup file

by Jan Reilink

If you need to restore a single table from a full MySQL backup, you may find yourself wondering “how do I do that?”. There are a few steps required, I outline them here for you to restore the contents of just one table back into the database from the mysqldump using Bash.

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Optimize(d) WordPress hosting (9+ practical tips)

by Jan Reilink

Optimized WordPress hosting is a subject on which a lot is written about. And therefore, this post is not about where to host your WordPress blog, or who offers the best WordPress hosting. This post is for you developers, what you can do to optimize your WordPress hosting stack.

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MySQL InnoDB performance improvement: InnoDB buffer pool instances – Updated!

by Jan Reilink

Are you running into MySQL load problems? Learn how to tune MySQL servers for a heavy InnoDB workload, by configuring innodb_buffer_pool_instances. Dividing the InnoDB buffer pool into multiple instances improves Disk I/O. By doing so, you run your database and website more efficiently and faster. Here is a little help for you.

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MySQL DoS in the Procedure Analyse Function – CVE-2015-4870

by Jan Reilink

Sri Lankan Security researcher Osanda Malith discovered a DoS -or crash- vulnerability in MySQL’s Procedure Analyse Function. The vulnerability crashes MySQL versions up to 5.5.45.

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Optimize WordPress MySQL tables through Cron, behind the scenes

by Jan Reilink

Schedule WordPress database optimization with WP-Cron

To regularly optimize my WordPress database tables, I created a small plugin that utilizes the WordPress Cron feature. This comes in handy to perform database optimization for WordPress on a regular basis, without forgetting about it. Just activate and enjoy. And here is the plugin code …

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Convert PHP ext/mysql to MySQLi

by Jan Reilink

This post will show you how to convert PHP mysql extension functions to PHP MySQLi extension. Migrating away from ext/mysql to MySQLi (or PHP Data Object (PDO)) is important, because the ext/mysql functions are deprecated as of PHP 5.5.0. If you do not update your PHP code, your website will fail soon!

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How to restore a deleted Open-Xchange context?

by Jan Reilink

How to restore, or recover, an accidentally deleted OX context. If you’ve accidentally deleted an Open-Xchange context (contextid), then that is bad… Here is how to recover a deleted OX context and filestore… Assuming you make backups of course.

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Disable WordPress comments (how-to)

by Jan Reilink

The WordPress comment system can be a bless for your blog, because of the user interaction. However, when the WordPress comment option is abused by spammers, it becomes a real pain in the “@ss”. With thousands spam reactions, disabling -and removing- WordPress comments is the only way to go. Here is how to disable WordPress comments in both the WordPress Dashboard interface and in your MySQL database.