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How To Resize A Virtual Disk In VMWare ESXi

It’s a simple command: vmkfstools -X new_sizevmfs_name:disk_name

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cPanel Addon Domains and SEO Woes (Google Duplicate Content)

I was doing some web design work for a friend/customer of mine, and he had a Web Hosting account with a company that used cPanel. I’ve used cPanel before, I’ve dabbled in it and fixed problems with it. But never … Continue reading

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How To Install VMWare Tools on Debian Lenny

This article will step you through the required steps to install VMWare Tools on Debian Lenny. Although this article is for Ubuntu, it will still work. I’ve successfully done it. ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=987631

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How To Remove Public Folder Database When Uninstalling Exchange 2007

social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvradmin/thread/ff6ddaf5-2c8e-486d-94ea-f2b0cd4ba0e7/

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How To Remove Roles After An Exchange Server Re-install Or Dead Exchange Server

I had run into a little bit of an issue when install Exchange 2007, which lead me to revert my VMWare ESXi Snapshot back to a later date. Once I did this, I had a fresh install of the same … Continue reading

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HowTo Clone a Virtual Machine On VMWare’s free ESXi

You will require SSH access to your Virtual Machine, read over my article Gaining SSH Access To VMWare ESXi which provides the steps required to gain SSH access. Once you have SSH access, you just need to create a Virtual … Continue reading

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Gaining SSH Access To VMWare ESXi

*UPDATE* If you’re using ESXi 4.1 you no longer are required to manually enable SSH. You can do this via the “Troubleshooting” menu. More instructions here kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1017910 I was trying to get access to VMWare ESXi as this is the only … Continue reading

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Drupal to WordPress Migration

So you might have noticed that my last post about this topic was removed. I had some issues with the migration that I’ve now fixed. Specifically if you’re migrating Drupal to WordPress and have the URL Aliases module setup with … Continue reading

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Fastcgi and the dreaded aborted: select() failed

I was getting reports of “500 Internal Server Errors” on two of my web servers. And after further investigation it looks like it was related to the following error.

(4)Interrupted system call: FastCGI: comm with server “php-fastcgi.fcgi” aborted: select() failed

After doing some reasearch I stumbled upon the following patch.

groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/browse_thread/thread/3de22bc415d3da02?pli=1

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