Remove Zone.Identifier files on Linux: find . -name "*Zone.Identifier" -type f -delete Zone.Identifier files are these peculiar little metadata files that might be cluttering up your directories if you work between Windows and Linux systems (particularly WSL). I've...
Occasionally for no apparent reason applications in the Volume Mixer are losing their settings and seemingly randomly changed so that some applications are no longer moving with the master volume slider. I haven't figured out why this happens but it sucks. I wanted to...
I was looking all over the place trying to figure this out so time to write it down so I don't forget next time. I was using Virtualmin and BIND and trying to setup DNSSEC with it but was getting this error: managed-keys.bind.jnl: open: permission...
WP Statistics is a popular and powerful WordPress plugin for tracking statistics on your WordPress website. However if you have any plugins or anything that creates dynamic pages that don't have a post id assigned to them then you will get lots of errors in your web...
WinSCP is a great file manager program for logging into many different types of remote servers. It saves your sites into the Windows registry by default rather than a WInSCP.ini file like it used to long ago. You can switch this option in your WinSCP Preferences....
I occasionally run into this issue whenever I switch OSes. If you happen to use a dual boot between Linux and Windows you might find yourself in a similar situation. You may be tempted to switch mail clients but Mozilla's Thunderbird remains one of the best, even if...
Backups are important but sometimes files are just too big to save to your computer or to the server that you're trying to backup. This is when you might want to backup to another server through ssh. Here is a command that allows you to backup a folder to another...
The issue is that Virtualmin currently only supports a single version of PHP FPM and seems to want to use PHP 7.2 no matter what I do, and I want it to use PHP 7.3 which is also installed. This appears to be a long-standing issue with Virtualmin. I solved it by...
I want to store this one for later so I'm posting it here. If you find it useful feel free to link to it. I wanted to version some files I'm working on but didn't want to use a git service like BitBucket, GitLab, etc. mainly because they are huge and I don't want to...
If you're running Apache web server and you have your site protected with HTTP authentication but still want to allow Let's Encrypt/Certbot to be able to issue a certificate you will have to allow access to the .well-known folder on your site. Otherwise they may give...
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