How to resize a Google Cloud drive
Writing this up as got caught by a wrong command on the actual Google docs – was resizing a disk from 100Gb to 300Gb. You resize the disk in the Google Cloud admin console. Then use “growpart” to resize the
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Create a Gmail SMTP App password for 2FA
This can be used for Thunderbird, the Mageplaza SMTP Magento2 plugin or any 3rd party Gmail app. Login to Gmail, then go to “Manage your Google Account”.Then click “Security” or go straight to https://myaccount.google.com/security 2 Step Verification should be turned
How to SSH across servers without a password
A) Generate a new ssh private / public key pair. ssh-keygen -t rsa Generating public/private rsa key pair.Enter file in which to save the key (/home/user/.ssh/id_rsa):Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):Enter same passphrase again:Your identification has been saved in /home/user/.ssh/id_rsa.Your
Recursively change filenames and find/replace text in Linux
Sometime for renaming files the “mv” command just isnt’ enough, luckily though you can use the “rename” command instead to do pattern-matched renaming of files. It can also work in-combination with the find command. eg. you can rename all files/directories
Trouble with Worldpay – the MD5 signature could not be verified
Had a client using Worldpay for their website that was getting “the MD5 signature could not be verified” – the MD5 signature had been checked in both Worldpay and on the client app. Upon investigation I found it was to
WordPress Editing Tips
Here are some tips for editing your WordPress website. Logging In Logging into WordPress and trying some edits is a good way to learn. It is quite easy and you can always revert to a previous copy of the page,
Certbot-auto problem on CentOS 6.9 “Error: Multilib version problems found”
Magento – solving the “Invalid Form Key. Please refresh the page.” on login
Sometimes you get the “Invalid Form Key. Please refresh the page.” on admin login in Magento, especially when migrating Magento to a new server or domain name. This is usually to do with the cookie domain setting being wrongly set
Install multiple Redis instances on ports 6379 and 6380 for Magento
Create the directory for the new instance $ sudo install -o redis -g redis -d /var/lib/redis2 Create a new configuration file $ sudo cp -p /etc/redis/redis.conf /etc/redis/redis2.conf Edit the new configuration file $ sudo nano /etc/redis/redis2.conf pidfile /var/run/redis/redis-server2.pid logfile /var/log/redis/redis-server2.log
Fix for Magento error – Item (Mage_Customer_Model_Customer) with the same id already exist
After upgrading to Magento 1.9.3.10 I kept getting the following error when trying to go to the Customers screen. A similar error can also happen on other screens. It’s when a Collection is being built, BUT there are duplicate entity_ids