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When DNS is lying – Finding a Windows Computer Old School Style
Just had a call about a sound problem and the Windows DNS was resolving the Windows PC's hostname with an IP of 192.168.0.109 but I couldn't connect remotely to the computer. The user was connected to the internet so I knew it had a working IP address. So next step...
Website Content Transfer (Webscraping using jQuery Selectors and Node.js)
I was looking at how to transfer product information from custom shop to WooCommerce in Wordpress. My challenge was to get all the data for a mass product transfer without doing a lot of manual entry. With products online they generally have consistent html divs,...
Woocommerce 2.1.12 nginx
Problems: Click on cart or checkout or my-account and 404 not found Clicking shopping cart red item delete button doesn't delete the cart item. Cart only worked with permalinks set to "Default" i.e. not any rewriting Possible cause: Bad nginx configuration # before...
CakePHP: Database connection “Mysql” is missing, or could not be created.
This error on Fedora 20 with CakePHP 2.5.3 CakePHP is NOT able to connect to the database. Database connection "Mysql" is missing, or could not be created. These commands fixed it (basically the MySQL PDO adapter is missing) yum install...
Proxy Error – Reason: Error reading from remote server
Using Apache as a Reverse Proxy to connect to an SBS 2011 server which runs Exchange Outlook Web Access and I kept getting "Proxy Error - Reason: Error reading from remote server" this occurred when I first connected to the reverse proxy server as follows: <SBS...
xTuple Client install on 64bit OS
When you run the xTuple installer under a Linux 64 bit O/S sometimes it returns to the command prompt with blank or no output. ./xTuple-4.5.0-linux-installer.run Searching the forums gives hints, some are very dated...