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NextCloud Upgrade Commands

I have a docker instance of Nextcloud running on my server. Every time I update to a new version, it requires me to do database updates manually. Doing the updates is not the difficult part, the issue is that sometimes there are memory issues or since they are in a Docker container, the commands have to be changed. Here is the list of some of the commands I have used to get my Nextcloud instance…

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Ubuntu Increase Partition Size

After increasing the Disk size from Proxmox, boot the vm from gparted live disk: You will see the unallocated added space. Select the partition you want to add the extra space to, then click on Partition and select Resize/Move. Here you will be able to simply drag the partition to increment its size. Click Resize/Move to queue the changes. Click the Green Check mark, then click Apply to…

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Ubuntu 20.04 Remove Swap

Disable Swap from the System Check if swap is enabled: sudo swapon --show If enabled, you will see the path to the swap file, if you have a swap file, save file path, to remove it later. To start removing the swap file or partition, start by disabling swap: sudo swapoff -a Remove Swap File if you have a swap file, you can remove it next: sudo rm /path/to/swap/file Next we need to make…

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Restart Proxmox Services

Here are the commands to restart proxmox services for troubleshooting purposes. killall -9 corosyncsystemctl restart pve-clustersystemctl restart pvedaemonsystemctl restart pveproxysystemctl restart pvestatd

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Zabbix Errors

This are some of the errors that I came across when setting up my zabbix Monitor system: Error: Cannot find value map “Switch Netgear port status” used for item “Port 19 Status” on “Template_Netgear_GS748T Solution: Open the Zabbix Web gui,go to Administration / General Click on the Gui dropdown and select Value Mapping Click the Create Value Mapping buttonname: Switch Netgear port…

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Fstrim on Ubuntu 18.04

Recently I discovered that my backups of my proxmox virtual machines were taking up too much space on my storage server. After doing some research, i found out that I could run fstrim -v / to remove deleted space from my drive. Now what I needed was a way to automated it. Using Cron I was able to make it run every 30 min and generate a log file, to verify and make sure its working correctly. But…

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Add Dynamic Variable To A Wordpress Page

Add Dynamic Variable To A WordPress Page

Create a Page Template Create a page template for stores and apply it to a page. $stores = get_query_var('stores'); Add a Rewrite Tag In your functions.php add a rewrite tag, which lets WordPress know to look for the specific tag function custom_rewrite_tag() { add_rewrite_tag('%stores%', '([^&]+)'); } add_action('init', 'custom_rewrite_tag', 10, 0); Add a Rewrite Rule Now to format the…

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Wordpress Visitors Same Ip

WordPress Visitors Same Ip

Today I was able to fix a issue that was happening on one of my WordPress websites. Basically the comments that were being left by users were being recognized by WordPress as comming from the same Ip Address. This Ip address was the address of the nginx proxy. What I had to do to fix this issue was that I went and added this block of php code to the buttom of the wp-config.php…

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Heat On Devices

One of the many things I have encounter in the IT world are heat issues. Many times it will reduce the life of a device, and other times, it reduces the performance of it. There was this time when this user complained about her computer being slow and freezing. I noticed that her computer was not anywhere near, I asked her about it, and she opened up a cabinet and there it was, cooking at low…

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Not getting Visitor Ip address

Today I was finally able to find a fix for my visitor ip not showing up on wordpress.

Basically when some one would comment on a wordpress post, it would show the server ip address as the visitor ip address. This would happen because I have nginx running along with apache on the same server. Nginx serves as the proxy. To fix this issue, I followed the steps mention on this website: https:/…

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Lorex Camera Connector Replacement

Recently one of our cameras was not working and had a blank image on the video feed.

I went then and found out the tape I had wrapped around the connector was not enough to keep the water out.

Obviously both connectors were damaged, I was able to add a RJ45 end to the cable coming out of the camera

I was able to google “lorex poe camera wiring” and find a pin out of the wires coming…

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.htaccess RewriteRule Examples

Here are some examples of rewriteRules that i found online, I am always looking for this, so I decided to save them here.

Thanks to brontobytes for the examples.

Example 1

Original URL: http://www.domain.com/product.php?id=15

Rewritten URL: http://www.domain.com/15.php

Rule for .htaccess: RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^([^/]*)\.php$ /product.php?id=$1 [L]

Example 2

Original…

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There was a problem with Generator

Adobe Photoshop error:

There was a problem with Generator. If the problem persists, please see: http://www.adobe.com/go/photoshop_generator_errors_en

This error came up because I had installed Malwarebytes on our editor computer.

Solution: Remove Malwarebytes, as hard as it sounds, that was the solution, I am thinking that the next version of Malwarebytes will have a fix for this issue,…

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Restya Board Docker

After I had ran the docker-compose up -d command, I was presented with the restya board login.

After setting up everything (users, boards, change default passwords) I was not getting notifications through email,

I checked and the postfix service was not working correctly.

Here is what I did to fix it, I went and removed the file master.pid from /var/spool/postfix/pid Then I did a…

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Nextcloud 18.0.1 with Docker-compose

Today I got my nextcloud server running with docker compose. Here is a run down of what I had to figure out:

I had to chose how to install it, went with what is in the github repo: https://github.com/nextcloud/docker.git

I chose the with-nginx-proxy with apache: https://github.com/nextcloud/docker/tree/master/.examples/docker-compose/with-nginx-proxy/mariadb/apache. The nginx proxy is a…

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Permission denied (publickey) FreeNas

Today I was able to solve this one problem that was driving me nuts for the past 3 days. Connecting to freenas with ssh using ssh keys.

I am trying to setup a backup system, where a web server can backup to freenas through the network. For some reason ssh was not able to login in to my freenas server, after doing lots of search I came up with this page:

https://www.ixsystems.com/community…

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Moving Wordpress Site to Php 7 open_basedir Error

Moving WordPress Site to Php 7 open_basedir Error

Yesterday, I had to transfer a website from my server to a new server. My old server had CentOs and PHP 5.6, the new server had Ubuntu 18 and PHP 7 both servers were running Vesta Cp as the hosting control panel.

Today I ran into this PHP error message:

Warning: file_exists(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/home/username/web/domain.com/public_html/wp-content/db.php) is not…

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