What are we doing? Installing Monit on Ubuntu Why? Monit is a lightweight program that can monitor processes, restart them if they fail and send email alerts if there are problems. How? Update repositories
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Installing Git Core and Setting up First Repository
What are we doing? Generating SSH keys and adding them to bitbucket Installing Git core on our web server Setting up a repository Pushing a project to a repository Why? Version control is an industry
Read moreInstall and Configure Postfix as a Local SMTP Relay on Ubuntu
What are we doing? Deploying Postfix with Mailutils to setup a send-only SMTP server on Ubuntu server Why? Applications hosted on our server will be able to send us notifications, password reset emails etc Method
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Best Git command ever? This little gem will remove multiple deleted files from Git with one (sadly not very memorable) command. git rm `git status | grep deleted | awk '{print $3}'` I definitely owe
Read moreChange Magento Order ID Prefix
I was recently launching some new Magento stores at work and came across and issue that I probably should have forseen – order IDs became out of sync. For my work setup, this is absolutely
Read moreFixing Git “error: bad index file sha1 signature”
I was setting up Git on a server at work and came across an issue whereby everything seemed to be setup ok but once I ran git status it would return the following error error:
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Whilst mapping network printers today I came across an issue where printers had previously been mapped to the machine and print ports were being duplicated. Normally to delete ports you could follow these steps: Go
Read moreMagento Error: SQLSTATE[23000]: Integrity constraint violation: 1062 Duplicate entry ‘363624’ for key ‘PRIMARY’
Today I was setting up a Magento staging store. This is something I’ve done more times than I’d care to admit recently and as a result, have the process down to a fine art. However,
Read moreInstall and Configure HAProxy on Ubuntu
HAProxy is an efficient and lightweight proxy for Debian Linux distributions. This guide will run through installation, configuration for round robin load balancing including health checks and URL based proxy pass. First up, update repositories
Read moreChange ESXi Host Static IP Address
I have been restructuring my homelab quite a bit- mainly segregating certain virtual machines onto their own VLANs- and decided to tidy up IP allocation on VLAN0. This is already a sensitive subject for me.
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