Frequently Asked Questions

EasyEngine makes it greatly easy to manage nginx, a fast web-server software that consumes little memory when handling increasing volumes of concurrent users.

With EasyEngine, you will no longer need to recall complex commands or depend on system administrators.

EasyEngine, with its array of commands, is much simpler to use than Apache, for your web-server needs.

As an interface for Nginx, it is known to perform better and faster than Apache, particularly when the number of concurrent site visitors is on the rise.

No. Shared hosting services do not allow root or sudo access, which is required to install EasyEngine.

Yes. The install log file for sites installed using EasyEngine can be found at this location.

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/opt/easyengine/logs/install.log

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/var/log/ee/install.log

EasyEngine’s error log can be found at this location:

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/opt/easyengine/logs/ee.log

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/var/log/ee/ee.log

v4: 7.2

v3: 5.6, 7.2

v3 and v4 support Ubuntu version 12.04 , 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 20.04 and Debian 8, 9 & 10.

CentOS or any other Linux Distro is not currently supported. They are also not on the product roadmap in the near future.

Yes. Simply press the tab key on your keyboard after typing the command. For example, if you want to know the subcommands related to ‘site’, type this:

ee site

Then press the tab key on your keyboard.

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Follow the instructions here to fix it.

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Run this command to fix this:

source /etc/bash_completion.d/ee_auto.rc

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You need to pass --dbhost parameter in site create:

ee site create example.com --type=wp --dbhost=172.0.0.1

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Open the following file in your favorite text editor and set mysqlhost=rtcamp.com

vim /etc/ee/ee.conf

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You need to pass --dbname parameter in site create:

ee site create --type=wp --dbname=example_com

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Open the following file in your favorite text editor

vim /etc/ee/ee.conf

and set db-name = true in mysql section.

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EasyEngine by default creates an user for each site. You can specify a particular user to use/create by passing --dbuser parameter during site create:

ee site create --type=wp --dbuser=example_com

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Open the following file in your favourite text editor and set db-user = true

vim /etc/ee/ee.conf

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You can do this by passing --dbprefix parameter during site create

ee site create example.com --type=wp --dbprefix=prefix_

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Open the file/etc/ee/ee.conf in your favorite text editor and set prefix = true in
 WordPress section. Now after this, when you create any WordPress site it is going to ask you database table prefix.

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You can do this by passing --admin-user parameter during site create 

ee site create example.com --type=wp [email protected]

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Open the following file in your favourite text editor and set user = rtcamp

vim /etc/ee/ee.conf

This will be the username for WordPress sites you create in future.

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You can do this by passing --admin-pass parameter during site create 

ee site create example.com --type=wp --admin-pass=<password>

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Open the following file in your favorite text editor and set password = mypass

vim /etc/ee/ee.conf

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You can do this by passing --admin-email parameter during site create

ee site create example.com --type=wp [email protected]

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Open the following file in your favorite text and editor set email = [email protected]

vim /etc/ee/ee.conf

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Run the following command to find out MySQL username and password of a site:

ee site info example.com

It will display database username/password if the site has database.

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MySQL username and password is saved in /etc/mysql

/conf.d/my.cnf file while installing MySQL. EasyEngine reads username and password from this file.

If my.cnf is not found on above location, EasyEngine also searches for same in ~/.my.cnf.

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EasyEngine admin tools can be accessed at:

example.com/ee-admin/

You need to enable admin-tools for each site. can read more about admin tools here

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To access EasyEngine admin tools use port 22222. i.e. To access admin tools for mysite.com use mysite.com:22222. Authentication prompt will appear further. Enter HTTP credentials and use admin tools.