WordOps expert for hire

DesignJohn

I'm looking to hire someone to help me fix some things for a few hours. If any experts are available, I will give you my email or Skype to start the convo.

My Stack;

• Ubuntu 18.04.6 KTS
• NGINX 1.23.2
• WordOps v3.15.4
• Using Cloudflare at the DNS level but have caching turned off

I cannot update my stack with the following comments: wo stack upgrade or wo maintenance
I'm having NGINX cache issues with WordPress. I flush the server-side cache, and my changes don't reflect on the frontend for a few days.
Even changes in the backend of WordPress (which is excluded from the NGINX cache anyways).
I turned off all WordPress caching tools during my testing
NGINX minifying - I'm a WordPress plugin developer, and my files are automatically getting minified by NGINX, and it's annoying me during dev testing. Any way to turn it off?
Performance issues - I'm having general performance issues that I want to troubleshoot.
One, in particular, is trying to get the FlyingPress cache plugin working with WordOps. It seems to work on my other sites that are using shared hosting.
Another issue is that the NGINX helper plugin seems to slow down my backend editing a lot
FTP - having an FTP issue when I transfer files; some child folders are not trying through.

marty

DesignJohn I cannot update my stack

It looks like it's failing on just updating apt cache - have you tried: apt update and apt upgrade?

DesignJohn

Thanks marty for the quick response.

I did not try that, thanks for the tips.

I just did the apt update and apt upgrade. It gave me two messages "do you want to keep your current php.ini" or "choose the packager's file". I chose the packager's file.

Either way, I did the upgrade and still have the same problem.

Thankss for all your help

corus9

are you using any other cache plugins?

DesignJohn

Thanks for asking.

I mentioned in my original post that I turned off all server-side (Cloudflare) and browser-level (Wordpress caching) tools. No cache on any level during my tests.

portofacil

Anyways, it's the apt update step that's triggering an error (or, in other words, returning an error instead of a success response).

What happens when you run apt update on the command line?

DesignJohn

HI portofacil

I think I found the source of the problem. One of my admins edited the main NGINX config file to install a GeoIP restriction module.

Is there any easy way to restore the NGINX config file to the original WordOps version?

corus9

DesignJohn

are you sure? try nginx -t

i would suggest take the backup and reinstall WordOps

DesignJohn

when we run the command

wo stack upgrade

It tries to run

apt install nginx-wo nginx-custom

and fails.

To find out why it cannot find the above packages, although the repos are added.

After more digging, I found out, there is a file blocking the updates/installs to these packages.

The file is: "/etc/apt/preferences.d/nginx-block"

So, I renamed the file to "/etc/apt/preferences.d/nginx-block.bak"

But after that, apt stops working, as it complains that the packages dependencies are broken. I tried 'apt install -f', it did not help.

I could remove the currently installed nginx-wo and nginx-custom packages, but that could have put the VPS into prolonged downtime of the sites in case the idea did not work.