Plesk Obsidian

cloudinit breaks connections from localhost to Plesk-operated web servers

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I don’t know how or why it is even installed – perhaps part of the provided Ubuntu image from my VPS host – but cloud-init (a.k.a “cloud-config”) is a bit obnoxious. At [re]boot time (best I can tell), it resets /etc/hosts based on some random template it has (/etc/cloud/templates/hosts.debian.tmpl in my case, even though that… Read more

How to install ImageMagick 7 for WordPress under Plesk Obsidian on Ubuntu 22.04

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The ImageMagick logo: a stout blue-robed wizard, with huge white beard and moustache, point a wand up and to the left where the words "Image Magick" arc across, surrounded by gold stars.

Why should I do this? WordPress relies on either ImageMagick or GD for its ability to read & write images. It prefers ImageMagick, as ImageMagick supports a much wider range of files, tends to be faster, and some assert that it produces higher quality files. ImageMagick 6 was superseded by ImageMagick 7 nearly a decade… Read more