I upgrade one of our servers from Ubuntu 13.04 to Ubuntu 13.10 and immediately one of the apache sites went wrong. It is was an odd problem because the Apache configuration had not changed and there was nothing unusual about it. I was getting and SSL error like so: It turns out that all I … Read more
If you are trying to configure Apache, it can be handy to see what Apache modules are enabled Ubuntu. Here is how to check which apache modules are enabled/installed. This will provide a list the apache modules which are enabled like so:
I just tried to use the Ansible htpasswd and it said: You just need to check that python-passlib is installed like so:
On our Ubuntu 13.10 server, I had created an apache configuration file for a virtual host however, I could not enable it using a2ensite. The file was here: I tried to enable it: However, the command complained that ERROR: Site www.example.com does not exist! The files clearly exists. It turns out the this command only … Read more
It’s a real pain to change the bitrate of Sound Juicer to actually make the MP3 or Ogg files good quality. For some reason the default quality is terrible and the developers have removed the menu which allows you to change the bitrate. Frankly, this makes Sound Juicer useless as a ripping tool and I … Read more
I have been trying to make curl post request to a script like so: It keep failing with an Apache 213 error like this: The requested resource /api.php does not allow request data with POST requests, or the amount of data provided in the request exceeds the capacity limit. It turns out that you need … Read more
Do you get lots of annoying crash reports on Ubuntu?.. well Apport is system tool which intercepts system crashes and reports them to Ubuntu. I’m sure that it is great for the developers – however it can be really annoying if you get the same error appearing all the time. So, you can easily disable … Read more
We just had a problem with our DHCP server and there seems to be another dhcp server on the network. To find this I used Wireshark on my Ubuntu machine to find the problem. 1 – Install wireshark 2 – Launch wireshark with permissions to read the network interfaces. You can either do this by … Read more
If you need to remove all the old kernels which were not currently being used to free up some space on the boot partition then this will do it for you.
Synology have released a Linux Cloud Station Client – which is brilliant news. Well done Synology for listening to your customers. It works really well and is quite easy to installed. Step 1 – Download the Cloud Station Client for Linux from here. Note – there is a section for Linux so don’t download the … Read more