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Configuring a Secure WordPress LEMP Stack with chroot Jails

With WordPress as widespread as it is, it’s a wonder the lack of up-to-date resources on how to configure a secure environment for hosting WordPress websites.

This is our attempt at compiling the most recent best-practices based on the latest software packages as of this writing.

  • Ubuntu 22.0.4 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)
  • NGINX 1.22.0
  • MySQL 8
  • PHP 8.1
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Accept cookies? Does the DCIA mean nagging for Canadians?

The proposed Digital Charter Implementation Act (DCIA) in Canada borrows some key elements of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The Guardian's cookie banner

As such you may wonder if Canadians are soon about to see it everywhere. That “Accept Cookies” banner you see when you happen upon a European or British website.

Moreover if you manage a website, are you going to have to implement the consent request as well?