Author: geekworker
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Adding Blog as a Menu Item in WordPress
On my personal blog, I set the main page to a static page. However, I also wanted a menu item to the blog posts. There was nothing in the Menu editor, but the solution is quite easy if you know how. Create and publish an empty page. I called mine “Blog”. In (Dashboard) -> Settings […]
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Apache: How To Redirect http to https
If you want to direct traffic from your http so that it gets encrypted, this is really easy to do in Apache: Step one: Set up your https vhost: <IfModule mod_ssl.c><VirtualHost 10.1.1.1:443>DocumentRoot /var/www# other server options go here as needed# – logging for exampleSSLEngine onSSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/example.certSSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/example.key# Add other SSL specific options as needed</pre></VirtualHost></IfModule> Step […]
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Could not perform immediate configuration on ‘python-minimal’
When I tried to update my Debian box, I got the following ominous error: E: Could not perform immediate configuration on ‘python-minimal’.Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2) It turns out that the fix is fairly simple. The following worked for me: apt-get install -o APT::Immediate-Configure=false -f apt python-minimal
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Creating New Outlook .PST Files in Office 2010
Back in the good old days, I am pretty sure, all the PST related stuff was in the normal file menu. Not anymore. I wanted to create a new PST file and I had to look quite a while before I found it – Microsoft has it hidden quite well: It’s in the Home ribbon, […]
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WordPress: Images not displaying, Redirects not working
Moved my WordPress installation to a new server. I kept all paths etc intact, copied my VirtualHost and permissions were good, so I was at first surprised when my images didn’t show and redirects didn’t work. The cause was quickly found, however; it seems my old install had different default settings hidden somewhere in the […]
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OpenVPN Connect doesn’t work at all on iPad Air / new iPad Mini
Yeah this had me puzzled for a while. Basically, I configured the OpenVPN client correctly (I thought so anyway). When I attempted to connect to my server, both the in-App log window and the log of my server remained empty: From what I could tell, OpenVPN didn’t even try! Well, it turns out that as […]
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Subversion: Dealing with Umlaute
I had a very annoying problem with my subversion today: A file had an ‘ö’ in it. I checked it in on Windows without noticing it, and when I checked the file out on my Mac it immediately caused a conflict: A Life/Jeppe Family History/Old & Junk/jeppe neuC Life/Jeppe Family History/Old & Junk/Die Köter, auch […]
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Apache: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long Error
Got the error ssl_error_rx_record_too_long in Apache. Was confused at first, but then realized I had not configured SSL properly – Firefox was attempting to parse http as https. So I set out to configure SSL and lo and behold, this solved the issue.
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How to Set Up a TFTP Server
Analog devices has a great and quite thorough “How To” on Setting Up a TFTP Server.
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ASUS P5QD Turbo Mainboard Not Recognizing USB Keyboard During Boot
Today I re-installed my old PC for my sister. First obstacle? I obviously had changed the boot order to put the CD Rom Drive after the harddrive, making booting from my Windows install DVD hard, to say the least. I couldn’t change it because, for some reason, the BIOS refused to recognize my USB keyboard. […]