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Running PHP apps on your own server: Laravel and WordPress deployment, upgrades, queues, caching and the errors that come with them.
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Redis suddenly rejects every write with "MISCONF Redis is configured to save RDB snapshots". Here is how to find out why the snapshot failed (a full d…
Redis refuses writes with "OOM command not allowed when used memory > 'maxmemory'" because it has a memory limit but no eviction policy. Here is the o…
Why a new PostgreSQL user fails with "Peer authentication failed" from the command line and "password authentication failed" from Laravel, how Ubuntu'…
The PHP-FPM warning "server reached pm.max_children setting (5)" means requests are queueing behind five busy workers. Here is how to work out the rig…
Laravel 11 has had no security fixes since March 2026, and Laravel 12 loses its last security patches on February 24, 2027. Here's the full official L…
PHP 8.1 is already end of life and PHP 8.2 follows on December 31, 2026, the same day PHP 8.4 loses active support. Every PHP version's dates in one t…
The usual fix for this Laravel migration error caps every unspecified string column at 191 characters, not just the one that failed. Here is a targete…
WordPress 7.1 triggers a fatal error in WP Rocket versions up to 3.23.2.1, taking down the entire site including wp-admin. Here is who is affected, th…
WordPress 7 requires at least PHP 7.4 and recommends PHP 8.3 or newer, with 8.3, 8.4 and 8.5 fully supported. Which version your site should run, how…
This error means your Laravel app could not reach the database at all. It is almost always one of two causes: a wrong DB_HOST, or your app starting be…
Upgrading to Laravel 13 can quietly log out every user on your app at once, and it won't throw a single error. Here's why, and how to check if you're…
Upgraded PHP on your WordPress VPS and now your error log is full of "implicitly marking parameter as nullable" warnings? Here's why it happens, why i…
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