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Welcome to our technical tips blog – solutions and answers for numerous Joomla, Wordpress, Magento, Linux, MySQL and other problems.
 

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

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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

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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

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Standard nginx and LetsEncrypt set up

1) Add the DOMAIN.conf file as shown below to /etc/nginx/sites-available 2) Create a symbolic link to DOMAIN.conf in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/DOMAIN.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled 3) Comment out the “return” redirect line and ssl_certificate, ssl_certificate_key lines. 4) Restart nginx 5) Create your

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