Welcome to our technical tips blog – solutions and answers for numerous Joomla, Wordpress, Magento, Linux, MySQL and other problems.
Could not get a Geobook3x to boot with a USB drive UEFI Linux / Windows. After numerous tries using Rufus and Lubuntu, Ubuntu and rescue disk images – the Geobook refused to boot via USB. Solution is to use Umi
I found problems adding an already used domain as a website eg. if startnet.co.uk was already on Siteground it didn’t like me adding test.startnet.co.uk when creating a website. So found this solution: Login to Siteground. Add a new Website Pick
Kept getting an “Invalid private key file” error when trying to connect to Siteground using an SSH private key file over SFTP on port 18765. The keyfile worked perfectly on Filezilla, so was quite confusing. Turns out it’s the format
For examples if you wanted to rename /long-distance-running-page/ to /marathons-are-easy-page/ Install the Redirection plugin (if you don’t already have it). Go to the Pages page.Click “Quick Edit” on the page you want to change eg. Long Distance Running PagesWhere it
Extract the vimeo.com video URL – it will be something like https://player.vimeo.com/video/123456789 and go to that in your Browser. Right click and choose View Source. Select All and Copy. Paste the HTML code in the textbox below. Click “Grab Vimeo
Wanted to say a Google Maps Streetview image – without all the buttons and tags. Use the code below, then use Snipping Tool to save the image. Note: the only problem are the new hover icons, I couldn’t get the
Writing this up as got caught by a wrong command on the actual Google docs – was resizing a disk from 100Gb to 300Gb. You resize the disk in the Google Cloud admin console. Then use “growpart” to resize the
This can be used for Thunderbird, the Mageplaza SMTP Magento2 plugin or any 3rd party Gmail app. Login to Gmail, then go to “Manage your Google Account”.Then click “Security” or go straight to https://myaccount.google.com/security 2 Step Verification should be turned
A) Generate a new ssh private / public key pair. ssh-keygen -t rsa Generating public/private rsa key pair.Enter file in which to save the key (/home/user/.ssh/id_rsa):Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):Enter same passphrase again:Your identification has been saved in /home/user/.ssh/id_rsa.Your
Sometime for renaming files the “mv” command just isnt’ enough, luckily though you can use the “rename” command instead to do pattern-matched renaming of files. It can also work in-combination with the find command. eg. you can rename all files/directories