So, I woke up to an email from Plex subject as quoted above. They have some explanation and then how to info on resetting. Resetting the password in itself took 2 goes as the page decided to refresh itself before I could submit and had to do it over again. Once done, I could login… Read More: Plex – “Action required: Notice of a potential security incident”… »
I used this tool recently to calculate the transfer time of a zip file to an FTP server for a client. Worked quite well. TBH, didn’t actually confirm the time frame, but looks legit. File Transfer | The Cloud Calculator.
The below is my opinion and my reasons for not using Confluence any more. Check out their requests pages and feedback on Jira and you’ll find out how Atlassian simply piss off their users of the on premise version of Confluence. Pretty much any useful request comes down to: After feedback from many of their… Read More: Confluence and why I opted to stop using it. »
I thought that changing the adapter order in Windows Network Connections made Windows use the one that is listed first. Not sure why, but this seemed to work for me previously just fine. Today I was a client site and after installing and rebooting the PC, but 4G card still wasn’t being priorities. Turns out,… Read More: Windows 4G USB adapter not being used as priority »
Ubuntu is based on Debian, so I used some of the information in the following guide to install AWstats on my web server. How-to: AWstats installation and configuration on Debian.
I used the following guide to change from php-fpm to hhvm after doing some research on potential speed increase. The guide is great, however I may be changing back as for some reason I seem to have actually lost performance by changing over. Might be an incompatibility in a plugin or something in WordPress. Install… Read More: Install HHVM, Nginx on Ubuntu 14.04 »
NAS4FREE. Issues with a failed drive in RAIDZ1, formatted wrong drive, then completely failed ZPOOL. Recovering, then reconfiguring a backup plan to USB drives. So my Christmas present for last year was 8.6TB of data almost being lost on my NAS4FREE server. It hosts a lot of photos, ISOs (both MS, Games, Linux and… Read More: NAS4FREE. RAIDZ1 failure, formatted wrong drive. New backup to USB »
Helpful scripts: Backup,Snapshot,Standby,Scrub,CheckPools… – Forum.
I upgraded our NAS4FREE boxes to 9.3.0.2 this morning after doing a ‘test’ run last night on my home machine, well not really a test, it was a home production machine, but less important than work’s machines. The home machine went off without a hitch. If you read the info when downloading the new… Read More: NAS4FREE upgraded to 9.3.0.2 »
So, I started using apt-fast quite some time ago and along with that, added aliases to my .bashrc file to speed up my updates. Guides on the internet seem to assume you have other packages installed and so their guides only half work. Here’s what I had to do in order to get it working… Read More: Apt-Fast – Ubuntu 14.04 »
This has happened to me on multiple ocassions, and the solution given here has solved it each time. CrashPlan App Closes In Some Linux Installations – Code42.
Found this really useful and saved me from digging through other guides and customising the menu manually. Kudos to Daniel Richter for such a simple program. I had to use the below command first as per the comments. sudo apt-get install python-software-properties Install Grub Customizer in Ubuntu 14.04 to Manage Your Grub Bootloader | UbuntuHandbook.
I wanted to have more than Google Analytics working for my site so I can compare and contrast the figures. I’m using Ubuntu so a basic search of awstats ubuntu found the following site which made it a breeze to install. AWStats – Community Help Wiki.
I wanted to lock down my AWStats so only I could access the URL. [ubuntu] htaccess won’t secure a directory (AWSTATS).
Bit more help on configuring ubuntu/apache using .htaccess to require awstats to use a username and password. How to configure a web page to require a username and password.
Not used this yet, but thinking about it. Connecting WordPress and WebDAV | ITS Strategy & Architecture.
I don’t want the logins, or even the content of most of the sites that I manage to be available via HTTP, however as most of us don’t like having to add the HTTPS to the start manually, this works perfectly. General setup is Ubuntu with Apache2, MySQL, PHP5 and WordPress. <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName… Read More: Apache-redirect http to https »
I was having this issue for so long. I often download Linux ISOs to test and learn differences between them. I’ve got lots of old PCs/Laptops laying around and Linux is a great way to give them new life. When I reboot my server, Transmission wasn’t starting automatically, yet before the upgrade to 14.04, it… Read More: [SOLVED] transmission-deamon issue after reboot »
find . -mindepth 2 -type f -print -exec mv {} . \; via bash – Shell script to move all files from subfolders to parent folder – Ask Ubuntu.
I used spacesniffer on servers and workstations/laptops to visually determine what is taking the most space. It’s like windirtree but is more visual. It supports viewing space via a path rather than root drive too which I find very useful at times. SpaceSniffer download.
I started using Copy.com for my cloud storage when I needed more than 2GB offered by Dropbox to save my WordPress (and back then, Confluence) backups. The guide in the following link helped tremendously. Installing and running Copy.com agent on a headless Ubuntu/Debian Linux | Allan Willems Joergensen – OnDemand.
Running Confluence Over SSL or HTTPS – Confluence Latest – Atlassian Documentation.
Ubuntu Linux: Creating ethernet alias for eth0 network device – nixCraft.
I implemented Confluence by Atlassian at my previous job and found it extremely useful for collaboration between the techs. If only I could get the management/accounts team to utilise it as much as we did, it’d have been even more useful. Annoyingly, every upgrade required me to redo this. Unfortunately after implementing it at my… Read More: How to Change the IP & Port With Confluence |… »
Useful for those of you like me with multiple IP aliases/NICs and you need SSH to listen on one of those. Howto bind ssh to selected IP address.
Found this useful when someone has asked me to update their website, or when someone has lost access to their webhost through various reasons (old IT company gone bust, manager has left and no-one else knows the details etc). Internet Archive: Wayback Machine.
This can get extremely complex. Basically, unless you really need to, I wouldn’t bother going into it. Can I Set Up User Name Mapping in Windows Vista? – Services for UNIX – Interoperability – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.
WordPress › Support » Php 5.3.0 & WP 2.8 (It is not safe to rely on the system’s timezone).
Australia/Perth via PHP: Australia – Manual.
I’ve now had 2 times whereby I’ve lost partition information on hard drives. One was completely random, the other had issues already and I was trying to fix it. TestDisk was crucial in the recovery of data. The first issue was when I used an external hard drive to backup a client machine and when… Read More: TestDisk Download – CGSecurity »
Nagios3 – Community Ubuntu Documentation.
Sorry, but Nagios is currently not checking for external commands via Sorry, but Nagios is currently not checking for external commands | Project Envision.
[Nagios] Error: Could not stat() command file ‘/var/lib/nagios3/rw/nagios.cmd’! via shocm.com » [Nagios] Error: Could not stat() command file ‘/var/lib/nagios3/rw/nagios.cmd’! :.
Installing WebVirtMgr on Arch Linux | [protofusion].
Sometimes file permissions can get a bit screwed up in your www directory in Linux. Maybe it was a command you blindly ran from doing some reasearch, maybe it was something else. The following guide helps explain how to fix it. Why WordPress Asks for Connection Info – Chris Abernethy . com.
Can’t remember where I got this info from, but it is extremely useful. I have a feeling I pulled bits from over the place. I used this procedure to lock down my Owncloud installation when I had it running. Test fake logins, look at logs, find the failure line and then add file in… Read More: fail2ban – custom configs »
mdadm – Can I create a software RAID 1 with one device – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange.
Migrating To RAID1 Mirror on Sarge.
$ sudo sfdisk -d /dev/sda > parts.txt $ sudo sfdisk /dev/sdb < parts.txt via [ubuntu] Command line partition editor.
php – problem with mcrypt installation – Stack Overflow.
» Ubuntu 11.10 – Incremental Backups with Rsync Linux Log.
libvirt: Connection authentication.
How to Enable TRIM For SSD in Ubuntu – Make Tech Easier.
apt-get install vim-nox via devtime: Enable vim syntax color highlightning in Ubuntu.
Vim documentation: diff.
RapidSSL – Knowledge Center – SSL Certificates Support.
CSR Generation: Online CSR Generator for Apache, IIS, IBM, and cPanel.
Not sure really how much difference this makes on a basic ADSL2+ connection, but I use this on all my Ubuntu servers and it feels better than basic apt-get. How to speed up package updates using apt-fast Debian & Ubuntu.
Not sure really how much difference this makes on a basic ADSL2+ connection, but I use this on all my Ubuntu servers and it feels better than basic apt-get. How To Install Apt-Fast 1.8.2 On Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.10, 12.04, 10.04, Linux Mint 16, 15, 14, 13, Elementary OS 0.2 And Pear OS 8… Read More: How To Install Apt-Fast 1.8.2 On Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.10,… »
How to clear bash history completely?