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This is related to Tmux workspace-in-a-box in my general effort to be productive with a bunch of linux terminals open at once

Preamble bitching nonsense

When things are all the same color, I work slower, if I get any work done at all. I noticed this in college taking a course in structural design. It was the kind of class that took up a three ring binder. Of course it wasn’t all notes, it had at least a hundred pages of the American Institute of Steel Construction. In that monster of a notebook I could not find a goddamn thing! That is, until I got a bunch of different colored pens, highlighters, flags, etc.

Same thing with computers, I stare at a bunch of black terminals and its just all runs together I can’t do shit. In fact, it even seems like every game now has the same stupid fucking flat black and white menus. Certainly true for Halo Infinite, MechWarrior 5, and HBS Battletech.

Identify which is which, I dare you.

Terminator

No, not ahhhhnold. Not even grizled, gray haired ahhhhnold. I can’t say terminator is the best gui terminal emulator, but I use it because I can easily make it different colors. It also has a nice human readable config file, as god intended. You don’t have to edit it by hand, but for some reason the gui is slow when I edit the colors and I don’t care to find out why.

I try to use the same color terminal for the same remote host when I am working on a bunch of them at the same time. Here are some examples:

WWW

There is not much for the blue - www profile the config file ~/.config/terminator/config really just the background color.

[profiles]
  [[blue - www]]
    background_color = "#001654"
    background_darkness = 0.8
    cursor_color = "#ffffff"
    font = Monospace 10
    foreground_color = "#ffffff"
    show_titlebar = False
    scrollbar_position = hidden
    use_system_font = False

Nextcloud

Despite my proclivities for dark computer screens, I need more color choices so here is a light blue one. I had to change the color palette since the color schemes that come with terminator don’t work on light backgrounds. It is by no means complete, maybe I will actually come back and update this later accordingly.

[[lt blue - sky]]
background_color = "#62a0ea"
cursor_color = "#aaaaaa"
font = Monospace 10
foreground_color = "#000000"
show_titlebar = False
scrollbar_position = hidden
palette = "#000000:#aa0000:#00aa00:#aa5500:#0000aa:#aa00aa:#005b5b:#aaaaaa:#555555:#ff5555:#55ff55:#ffff55:#5555ff:#ff55ff:#55ffff:#ffffff"
use_system_font = False

There is much on this topic, this is just one solution.

W3 Total Cache is a well known performance plugin for WordPress, and it can use memcached.

memcached should already be listening on loopback, not on a public ip!, on a tcp socket:

root@www:~# netstat -lnp --tcp |head -3
Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State       PID/Program name
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:11211         0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      681/memcached

Going to need the php extension to connect to the memcached server:

apt install php8.2-memcached

After which, the main things in W3TC we are looking for are object cache (php), page cache, and database cache and all three are working so we are all set.

Apache by default comes with an old crusty style of doing things which includes MPM prefork and mod_php. I am going to instead use the threaded event multi-processing module.

apachectl -M | grep 'mpm'

root@www:~#  apachectl -M | grep 'mpm'
mpm_prefork_module (shared)


root@www:~# a2query -m |grep php
php8.2 (enabled by maintainer script)

a2dismod php8.2
a2dismod mpm_prefork
a2enmod mpm_event

apt install php-fpm

Creating config file /etc/php/8.2/fpm/php.ini with new version
NOTICE: Not enabling PHP 8.2 FPM by default.
NOTICE: To enable PHP 8.2 FPM in Apache2 do:
NOTICE: a2enmod proxy_fcgi setenvif
NOTICE: a2enconf php8.2-fpm
NOTICE: You are seeing this message because you have apache2 package installed.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/php8.2-fpm.service → /lib/systemd/system/php8.2-fpm.service.
Setting up php-fpm (2:8.2+93) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.11.2-2) ...
Processing triggers for php8.2-fpm (8.2.20-1~deb12u1) ...
NOTICE: Not enabling PHP 8.2 FPM by default.
NOTICE: To enable PHP 8.2 FPM in Apache2 do:
NOTICE: a2enmod proxy_fcgi setenvif
NOTICE: a2enconf php8.2-fpm
NOTICE: You are seeing this message because you have apache2 package installed.


apt install libapache2-mod-fcgid
Uses unix socket.
		
a2enconf php8.2-fpm		
a2enmod proxy
a2enmod proxy_fcgi

apachectl configtest
Syntax OK

systemctl restart apache2

apachectl -M | grep 'mpm'
mpm_event_module (shared)
 

wp cli is a command line tool to do lots of wordpress operations..

Here is a cron job to automaticall update wp cli every hour on the hour:

0 */1 * * * wp cli update --yes