May 2013 – Page 2 – A Little of Both

Blank WordPress Login Page for the Admin Panel

A strange thing happened the other day. One day, I could log into WordPress and everything was fine. The very next day, when I loaded up the /wp-admin page, I just got a blank screen. I tried going directly to wp-login.php, but again, just a blank screen. I checked the Apache error logs, and there wasn’t anything strange in there. I then checked the PHP error logs and found:

[08-May-2013 19:51:44 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Unknown: Failed opening required '/path/on/server/web-root-dir/wp-login.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/php:/usr/share/pear') in Unknown on line 0

I checked, and wp-login.php was exactly where it was supposed to be. Continue reading “Blank WordPress Login Page for the Admin Panel”

Security-driven Development

I am the Editor-in-Chief of php|architect magazine, and I wanted to share my most recent editorial that I wrote up with all of you in case you aren’t subscribers to the magazine. Here it is:

Security-driven Development

Beth Tucker Long

Security breach – these are words no one likes to hear. It means disaster for development teams and management, and yet, when projects are being planned, it is often an afterthought that is pushed aside when budgets and timelines get tight. Continue reading “Security-driven Development”