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Symptom:
– Your default File Manager is e.g. Thunar but Firefox uses Nautilus when saving files which is driving you bananas.
Solution (for XFCE):
1. Firstly make sure that your default Applilcation for that particular mime type (in this case it is the ‘inode/directory’ mime type) is actually setup properly. Open the “Preferred […]
1. Edit file /etc/my.cnf.d/mariadb-server.cnf and add these 3 lines to the [mysqld] section:
innodb_large_prefix=true
innodb_file_format=barracuda
innodb_file_per_table=true
This will enable usage of Multi-byte (in particular – 4-byte) UTF-8 support in Drupal 7.
2. mysqli: If you have problems with mysqli/mysql change the mysqli to mysql (or vice versa – whatever […]
Old way:
Examine list of DNS servers in /etc/resolv.conf:
$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
– – –
New way:
May not work on newer Linuxes since resolving may be setup via (not only DNS, but also) various other services: DDNS, LDAP, Avahi, Bonjour, ZeroConf and God knows what else.
So…
To check up […]
Scenario
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You are maintaining several web-sites (site1.com, site2.org, etc…). Having just one web-site at localhost with all files (DocumentRoot) at /var/www/html is not an option for you. You need to be able to test all of them and to access them in a convenient way.
Solution
Setup apache with Virtual Hosts, […]
DON’T:
yum install python-somePackage
.. or
apt-get install python-somePackage
DO:
pip-python install somePackage
Recovering your phpMyAdmin/mysql lost root login password
How do you reset your mysqld and phpAdminPassword?
First we need to change the mysql root password (or set to empty if we want to allow a passwordless login). After that we will setup phpMyAdmin to use this mysql login.
1. On newer Linuxes, e.g. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS […]
An excellent page describing good linux software for burning CDs/DVDs, creating images, etc:
http://www.techdrivein.com/2011/03/9-good-cd-and-dvd-burning-tools-for.html
Xfburn – XFCE for Linux
K3B – KDE Burning Tool
GnomeBaker – GNOME Burning Tool
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