Welcome to our technical tips blog – solutions and answers for numerous Joomla, Wordpress, Magento, Linux, MySQL and other problems.
How to update a forked git repo on github – so it’s up-to-date with the original from where it was forked. In other words, how to re-sync your fork with the original – as is needed when updating the Magento
I was stuck trying to display the original price of an item in the mini-cart in Magento 2. Here is my solution, which can also be used elsewhere. Add to your theme Magento_Weee/templates/checkout/cart/item/price/sidebar.phtml Add the following code appropriately : //
You can use a program called httrack to do this, but turns out wget is almost as good. I had a couple of old Joomla 1.5 websites that were now more of a security risk than anything and kept getting
Due to the recent MySQL security patches, I wanted to update my version of PHP 5.4 and MySQL 5.1 to later versions on CentOS. Here is the process. Check your RPM versions of MySQL and PHP rpm -qa|grep mysql Install
Use an SPF Record to stop emails going into the Junk or Spam folder Had problems sending emails from Woocommerce, they were going into the Spam folder. This often happens and turns out to be an easy fix – add
Had some trouble installing wkhtmltopdf on CentOS 6, so here are the commands to do it: Install fonts, then icu, then the CentOS 6 RPM for wkhtmltopdf, then x11-server and urw-fonts! yum install -y xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi yum install -y xorg-x11-fonts-Type1
Standard set-up – Plesk running various websites, but using external email services ie. the MX records are Gmail or whatever. With this set up and the default Postfix settings, SMTP will try to deliver email addressed to Plesk virtual domains
Boot into Ubuntu desktop using a USB stick download the .deb file from this page https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/i386/chntpw/0.99.5-0+nmu1 ie http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15221455/chntpw_0.99.5-0+nmu1_i386.deb Click the deb file, it should open the software installer, then click the Install button. Ctrl-Alt T – to open a terminal cd /media/XXXIDENTIFIER/Windows/System32/config
So you’ve set up an account with Github and have a version of your code/site on your local laptop. This is how to deploy it. Borrowed most of this from deploy.php on Github Step 1 – upload deploy.php to your
Open a git bash shell. Basic command set up: git init – set up git in the folder git status – what git is tracking git add <filename> – add file to git, in other words ‘stage’ this version of