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There are some cases where you need to completely re-install MySQL or MariaDB, whether it is because the package has corrupted or is having problems or if in our case with a client you have a non-standard service installed and you are getting messages such as: We expected to upgrade to 5.6; however, the system […]

If you ever wondered what mod_pagespeed was doing, why it was skipping some resources or you just want to make sure it is not having any difficulty then there is an easy way to debug any page of any website using a cURL request. This is especially useful when you are trying to configure mod_pagespeed to compress […]

UPDATED 31/07/2017 – EA4 HTTP/2 has now moved out of Experimental! I was surprised last night to discover that HTTP2 has come to WHM Experimental and can now be installed with just a few short steps into EasyApache 4. If you dont already use EA4 I strongly suggest you move over to it if possible […]

One of our clients was having serious issues with their PrestaShop store, it would randomly start returning 503 Internal Server Error and would not come back up again, we found the only way to make the site work was to disable the PayPal Module and the site would magically start working again. To make things even stranger, […]

If you have seen the tracking code for Google Adsense, it requires the including of various scripts and variables, its good if you need to track a landing page, or success page. But it is not made clear how you can track user actions on a page where you can only do this through the JavaScript […]

Magento can use allot of resources re-indexing, and you may find that doing re-indexing through the admin panel often fails and/or times out. So running the re-indexing using shell commands is very beneficial, not only does it appear to work faster, it will also run for as long as it needs without any interruptions. It’s […]

Being a Web Developer or IT technician, you will undoubtedly come across the need to move large amounts of files from one machine to another, in a Web Developers case you may be moving projects from a development environment to a live environment or creating/restoring backups of projects. We all know from experience (only a few […]

One of the most time consuming tasks any Server Administrator / Web Developer faces is changing file, folder and owner permissions across a whole project, if you have more than a few hundred files this can take quite a while using FTP commands. If you have SSH access to the server, you can quickly change […]