Wordpress 2023

New setup for Wordpress 2023.

Standard Hetzner setup. Enable firewall. Move SSH to port 2222.

     apt update
     apt upgrade
     apt install apache2 php php-mysql
     apt install mariadb-server mariadb-client

Then disable external access, remove anon users, etc, etc:

     mysql_secure_installation

Create baseline setup with:

     mysql -u root -p

And give the SQL commands:

     CREATE DATABASE wordpress_db;
     CREATE USER 'wp_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'XXXX';
     GRANT ALL ON wordpress_db.* TO 'wp_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
     FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
     Exit;

Fetch the latest Wordpress and check:

  cd /tmp && wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
  openssl sha256 https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz 

1. Check sha256 against the Wordpress website.

  cd /var/www/html
  tar zxf /tmp/latest.tar.gz
  cp -R wordpress /var/www/html
  rm /tmp/latest.tar.gz
  chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/wordpress/
  chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/wordpress/
  mkdir /var/www/html/wordpress/wp-content/uploads
  chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/

Updated the docroot to Wordpress:

  vi sites-enabled/000-default.conf 

Add settings to /etc/php/*/php.ini:

   upload_max_filesize=128M 
   post_max_size=128M 
   memory_limit=256M

Backups

Backups have been set up as a variation on MTA-Backups / Duplicty. The main change is that only wordpress and its database are backed up.

The GPG key was set up with the commands:

    mkdir /etc/duplicity
    cd /etc/duplicity
    export GNUPGHOME=`pwd`
    gpg --generate-key

Obtain key ID:

    gpg --list-secret-keys

The trustee decruption key was taken from the MTA-Backups / Duplicty process and its key id also obtained:

    gpg --list-keys

The standard run.sh script was adapted as per below. Note a different MySQL location (change in ubuntu) and the extra agent argument (change in gpg).

 #!/bin/sh
 set -e
 umask 077
 
 DIR=/etc/duplicity
 W=incremental
 if [ $# != 0 ]; then
 	W=$1
 	shift
 fi
 T=
 if [ $W = full -o $W = incremental ];then
 	T=/
  	mysqldump --all-databases --single-transaction --quick --lock-tables=false  |\
               gzip -9 > /var/lib/mysql/mysql-dump.gz
 fi
  
  # Verbose level 2 is errors and warnings; this way we skip
  # notices and quell all output if the backup is a success.
  #
  VERBOSE=${VERBOSE:-2}
  
  PASSPHRASE="XX" LANG=en_US.UTF8  LC_CTYPE=C HOME=$DIR GNUPGHOME=$DIR  \
       PYTHONWARNINGS="ignore::DeprecationWarning" \
 		python3 -W ignore::DeprecationWarning /usr/bin/duplicity $W $* \
 		\
 			-v $VERBOSE \
 			--hidden-encrypt-key XXX \
 			--sign-key           XXX \
 			--use-agent \
 			--ssh-options="-i $DIR/backup.sftp -oUserKnownHostsFile=$DIR/knownhosts" \
 			--no-print-statistics \
 	\
       --include /var/www \
       --include /etc \
 	--include /var/lib/mysql/mysql-dump.gz \
 	--exclude /etc/duplicity/.cache \
 	--exclude '**' \
 	\
 	$T \
 	sftp://xxxx@xxxx.com/backups 2>&1 |\
               tee /var/log/last-duplcity-backup.new |\
               grep -v DeprecationWarning | grep -v algorithm=hashes.SHA1
 	mv /var/log/last-duplcity-backup.new /var/log/duplicity.log
	mv /var/log/duplicity.log.gz /var/log/duplicity.prevlog.gz || true
 	gzip /var/log/duplicity.log || true
 exit $?

And the crons where installed:

   MAILTO=noc@makerspaceleiden.nl
   # monthly full, incrementals during the week.
   #
   3 3  1    * *	root test -x  /etc/duplicity/run.sh && /etc/duplicity/run.sh full
   3 3  2-31 * *	root test -x  /etc/duplicity/run.sh && /etc/duplicity/run.sh incremental
   # Half year retention for full; 1 months for the incrementals
   #
   1 1  * * 1	 root test -x  /etc/duplicity/run.sh && /etc/duplicity/run.sh remove-all-but-n-full 6
   1 2  * * 1	 root test -x  /etc/duplicity/run.sh && /etc/duplicity/run.sh remove-all-inc-of-but-n-full 1