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. Please use my notes as a guide; I cannot guarantee that they will work for you.
This post describes how I configured Postfix on my Mac to relay outbound email via an SMTP service.
Why? I am creating a local website development environment where PHP applications may generate email messages for contact forms or notifications. For example, after installing WordPress, it generates an email message announcing a successful install. However, I can use the built-in mail command to run a simple test to verify that my send-only mail service is working.
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, I am creating environment on my Mac that uses MySQL 8.x. My Altoplace website uses MySQL 8.x, so this post will describe using MySQL 8.x.
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:
