I had need to use the UploadProgress and SMTP Mail PECL PHP extensions so a brief overview:Check pear is installed and working:# which pearTo get a list of help/commands:# pear helpRun the updates: # pear channel-update pear.php.netShow the installed... » More
Moving from MySQL 4 to MySQL 5 caused a few issues on Joomla websites. The problems stem from MySQL 4 using latin1 swedish as default but some applications like Joomla want utf8 so:1. Re-export the database (it is Ok to do this from the existing MySQL 5... » More
I was playing with a shell script to rename a bunch of image files to lowercase then resize them but I had a typo in one of my variables resulting in accidentally renaming all the folders in my home directory with lowercase names. After next log in I now... » More
A few minor notes on changing some of the text in Joomla 1.5:Welcome to the FrontageIn the Admin Control Panel go to Menus > Main Menu > Home > Parameters - System > Page Title.Footer TextIn the Admin Control Panel go to Extensions >... » More
Trying a free SSL cert from Comodo and had some difficulties with an error message:The CA certificate does not sign the certificateSo downloaded the following CA... » More
Having given up on installing and using Munin once already I thought I would jot a few notes to help in future troubleshooting.Test the connection by telnet from the munin-server to the munin-nodetelnet mynode 4949list fetch vmstat Firewall is the... » More
Configuring Plesk's version of Qmail to use Clam and Spamassassin. I followed the instructions here:http://www.jaguarpc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19328But I also received an error:Cannot find any reference to the Q-S administrator Email address in and... » More
Just increased the maximum number of IMAP (courier) connections (for thunderbird and Mac users) in /etc/courier-imap/imapdMAXDAEMONS from 40 to 80MAXPERIP from 4 to 40as discussed here.I also set DEBUG_LOGIN=1 from DEBUG_LOGIN=0so I could use Munin to... » More
Moving from MySQL 4 to MySQL 5 caused a few issues on Joomla websites. The problems stem from MySQL 4 using latin1 swedish as default but some applications like Joomla want utf8 so:1. Re-export the database (it is Ok to do this from the existing MySQL 5... » More
