So I was having issues with deploying Ubuntu 18 guests on a Xen hypervisor. It originally started with a template for bionic not existing. This is easily fixed with a couple of commands to copy the karmic.d template to bionic.d template. However, once your host boots up. You’re now faced with a network issue as … Read more
Run the following commands. wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/netselect/netselect_0.3.ds1-28+b1_amd64.debdpkg -i netselect_0.3.ds1-28+b1_amd64.deb https://askubuntu.com/questions/39922/how-do-you-select-the-fastest-mirror-from-the-command-line
You may have encountered the following error message when trying to mount a CIFS share from the web interface of your Proxmox server. If you run the following command below via SSH, you will get a little more detail. The issue is solved by running the command with –smbversion 2.0 or 2.1 or 3.0 as … Read more
So this is the journey to update WordPress 3.2.1 to 5.3 I’ve taken a copy of the site and set it up on a temporary URL and set the following within wp-config.php I’ve also had to drop the PHP version to 5.6 to be able to run the site. Step 1 – Getting to a … Read more
TLDR; Head to the bottom and you can update the shipped version of xen-tools 4.7 to 4.8 via the xen-tools GitHub repo. There’s a dpkg available under the releases tab. Currently, the only available version of Ubuntu available to deploy using xen-create-image (xen-tools 4.7-1) on Ubuntu 18 is Ubuntu 16.04 (Zenial) If you want to … Read more
A customer of mine was seeing a 15 second load time on their WordPress site when clicking on “Comments”. I installed Query Monitor and saw that the Akismet plugin was running the following SQL command on each comment. SELECT COUNT(*) FROM wp_comments WHERE user_id = 1820 AND comment_approved = 1; This query was to show how many comments the user had previously … Read more
If you’re running WHMCS and the Hexonet ISPAPI Registrar Module, you might have issues registering .ca domain names. An error will show up when you click on register, here’s a screenshot of the error. Invalid attribute value; INVALID Contact [OWNERCONTACT] (Missing required attribute; X-CA-LEGALTYPE)] This is due to the .ca registry requiring all registrations require … Read more
Simple add the following to your wp-config.php define(‘WP_DISABLE_FATAL_ERROR_HANDLER’, true);
If you’re having issues with gathering all the postal codes for a specific area in Canada. You can use the following tool Canadian Postal Code Radius Search Map
This is pretty straightforward, you’ll see this error when updating or installing a plugin. [enlighter linenumbers=”true”]The package could not be installed. PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT[/enlighter] Basically the file WordPress is trying to download is either corrupt or you don’t have the PHP curl module installed. So simply install it, for Ubuntu this is: [enlighter linenumbers=”true”]apt-get install php-curl[/enlighter] or … Read more