Using WebDeploy to move IIS sites between servers
Using WebDeploy makes the task of moving the configs and the content of the sites between Windows servers much easier. WebDeploy is irreplaceable when you wo...
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Making a backup of all the databases in MSSQL 2008/2012
To make backup copies of all the databases on your MSSQL 2008/2012 server you can use the following SQL query:
Displaying ServerVariables in IIS
A lot of admins use the phpinfo function to debug the headers the server gets when the site is requested.
Git issues in Jenkins
While connecting a git repository to Jenkins I got the following error:
Error: xz compression not available
If you get the following message while trying to install any package with yum, it means you picked the wrong repo package during install:
Running Jenkins in Tomcat6 on CentOS 6.5
A quick note on how to make Jenkins run on a CentOS server and show its web face in Tomcat6.
Moving a blog between WordPress multisite installations
There are plenty of articles online describing how to move a blog out of multisite into a standalone WordPress.
Configuring Postfix to send mail through MailGun
This article is about how to configure your Linux server to send mail through the MailGun service.
Recover compromized Linux server
If you are reading this article than your site has been hacked. You have seen that spam is being sent from your server and you can’t figure out what to do wi...
Visual editor problems in WordPress
Today I ran into a problem on one of the sites I work on.
Mail Gets Delivered Through the plesk_virtual Service
By default, when you create an account in Plesk, local mail delivery gets enabled for it. No matter how many times you tell it to route mail according to the...
RackSpace CloudFiles - uploading files
To upload files into the CloudFiles storage you can use the SDK for PHP. Other programming languages are supported too. The full installation description is ...
RackSpace Cloud API - getting the token and the endpoint
RackSpace is an American hosting provider with several data centers, offering a big number of hosting solutions. One of the products is cloud hosting with it...
Disk space issue in Linux
Sometimes there’s plenty of free space on disk, but files stubbornly refuse to get created. In some cases you get an error saying the disk ran out of free sp...
The max_allowed_packet error when restoring a MySQL database
If you’re reading this note, you’ve run into the following error while restoring a MySQL database: