Upgrade to PostgreSQL 9.6 on Ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04
A quick mini-guide to help you upgrade PostgreSQL 9.3 to PostgreSQL 9.6 on Ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04. As always, be sure you have a backup first!
Laravel Valet usage with special sites
Laravel Valet makes spinning up almost any type of php site on your local Mac a breeze. There are some edge cases where you might not want to run a site within Valet. On macOS, it is really easy to run other local sites using a custom Nginx config files.
Quickly retrieve size of all tables in a MySQL database
A friend ran into an issue with their Wordpress database becoming huge. First step was to figure out which table(s) was causing the issue. Doing an online search came up with this handy little MySQL query which returns the size in MB for all the tables in a database.
Store location of SSL certificates on Synology DSM 6 NAS
Looking for the location of the SSL Certificates on Synology DSM NAS devices? You will find each SSL certificate stored in it's own sub-folder here: /usr/syno/etc/certificate/_archive Original answer…
Patch Majordomo to work with DMARC
This patch fixes Majordomo by doing three things:
- Change the email From: header to be the email address of the list itself
- Add a new variable to Majordomo to allow enabling on a list-by-list basis
- Add the Reply-to: header with the email address of the author
Mediawiki: Moderation plugin error when using InnoDB and utf8mb4_unicode_ci
Today, I ran into an issue when installing the Moderation extension using InnoDB and encoding of utf8mb4_unicode_ci: Specified key was too long; max key length is 767 bytes The reason for this error…
Installing Scantailor on macOS High Sierra
Today I discovered a pretty awesome looking piece of scanning software called scantailor. It apparently runs great on Windows and Linux, and the instructions say you can install it on macOS with Macport. For those of us that use Brew, the instructions were somewhat broken. Keep reading to see how I installed scantailor under macOS High Sierra
Change last modified date of files based on date mentioned in file
A clients older search routines used the last modified date of files as the actual date the file was created. This became problematic when we had to rebuild the collection of files. The last modified…
Error from curl : SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol
What might be wrong if you get Error from curl : SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol when using curl on a webpage.
Error: 'logrotate exited with return code 1' on Ubuntu
Fixing an incorrect MySQL password for Ubuntu system user 'debian-sys-maint'.