I recently updated the PHP version on my Amazon Linux AMI and then a few days later notice I could not download Wordpress updates. I was getting the following error: Download failed. cURL error 77 If you get this error you might try restarting your web server process...
Dealing with Flashes of Unstyled Content in NextJS
So I made a YouTube video of a challenge I had of a FontawesomeIcon React component flashing to massive when loading the page and then back to the right size. This video shows the work-a-rounds. I tried to include the code snippets here but the self hosted wordpress...
Call to undefined function opcache_reset()
Got this error message 2018/03/13 22:12:41 [error] 17149#0: *7057 FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP message: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function opcache_reset() in /path/to/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/opcache/opcache.php:72 And then created a file...
Just discovered the Elegant Themes — Visual Builder
So I have been using the Divi Template from Elegant Themes and really have paid no attention for a long time. But just today I was looking at the Youtube and discovered the Visual Builder. To describe it I would say it gives you Squarespace style inline editing within...
I have moved to Amazon Web Services
So tonight I moved my websites to AWS. I logged into AWS and created all my DNS zones and records in Route 53 and then logged into multiple DNS registrars they were registered with and pointed them to Route 53 DNS servers. I chose the default Amazon Linux AMI and then...
Search / Replace in Entire Document with Scribus
Scribus is a great piece of software but there seems to be a missing piece of functionality. You can search and replace in a single text frame but you can't seem to search and replace in the whole document. So if your document has multiple text frames then you can't...
Elegant Themes Visual Builder No Worky on NGINX Server
Symptoms: You are running php-fpm and nginx You can enter the visual builder from the home page https://jamesmcdonald.id.au/?et_fb=1 but not from a another url such as https://jamesmcdonald.id.au/contact?et_fb=1 Problem: The Divi Visual Builder uses ?et_b=1 query...
Cry Havoc and Release the Dogs of War — PHP 7.1.5 Upgrade Gotchas
So just doing a Joomla 3.7.1 to PHP7.1.5 upgrade. I have Chronoforms v5 installed (https://www.chronoengine.com/downloads/chronoforms) which works brilliantly btw. However on upgrade to PHP 7.1.5 and trying to save a form I got "0 Cannot use string offset as an array"...
Postbooks Print PDF to Email – Ugly PDF Fix
When printing from Postbooks you can Print to PDF or PostScript file or to a local or network connected printer. I would like to print invoices from Postbooks to my email account so I can then forward the email on to the client which has the benefit of keeping a paper...
Postbooks 4.8.1 GUI Client Print to Cups Printer work-a-round
Still having trouble with printing from Postbooks to a Cups based printer on Fedora 21 http://www.xtuple.org/xtincident/view/bugs/24335 The work-a-round is to change the A4 page size to custom and then it prints... or build the client from source... This has...