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Technology & Life Notes

This is the place where I enjoy sharing my technology and life interests. I use Altoplace to save notes for future reference. Hopefully, others will find them helpful.

Configure MySQL on macOS

This is a followup post to my earlier Configure Apache and PHP-FPM on macOS post. With the addition of MySQL to my Mac website development environment, I can now install Content Management Systems, such as WordPress that require a database system to function. My original post supports static website development (for example, Grav ). My current website host, Pair Networks , uses MySQL versions 8.x. I am creating a similar environment on my Mac. My Altoplace website uses MySQL 8.x, so this post will describe using MySQL 8.x.

Disable Direct IP Access to Apache Website

I want to share how I solved an issue with Cache Enabler caching duplicate copies of my WordPress website content. I should note that my website is hosted on a VPS host that is running Apache. If you are using Cache Enabler, you will see your pages and posts cached under domain.com/wp-content/cache/cache-enabler/.

All the cached pages and posts are under the website domain-name directory. My problem was, I was also seeing two additional directories that looked like: