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Change user password within bash script on Ubuntu/Debian

Change user password within bash script on Ubuntu/Debian

by on July 8, 2010 in SOLUTIONS

I tried many different methods to no avail;  The only solution that worked for me was piping username:password into chpasswd…

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.docx file giving HTTP Error 404 within IIS6 website

by on June 7, 2010 in SOLUTIONS

When you request a file with .docx extension from an application served from IIS 6.0, you receive the following error message “HTTP Error 404 – File or directory not found”, even though the file is there & permissions are correctly set…

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Cannot connect to FTP – CentOS Godaddy using Simple Control Panel

by on May 4, 2010 in SOLUTIONS

You are setup with CentOS through GoDaddy, and are trying to FTP into the server. You have ensured that “Enable Server” is checked beneath
System Configuration > FTP within your “Simple Control Panel”.  You have verified you can SSH to the servers IP Address (elminates DNS Issues) but still cannot connect via FTP, here is why…

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Redirection Plugin – Regular Expression Examples from a Movable Type to WordPress Migration

Redirection Plugin – Regular Expression Examples from a Movable Type to WordPress Migration

by on April 27, 2010 in SOLUTIONS

Within a few days of migrating a Movable Type blog to Wordpress we had thousands of 404 errors with users still hitting our old MT Search Engine, the Redirection plugin logged all of them. We then created several rules to forward the old search traffic to the new wordpress search…

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How to backup Rackspace Cloudsites Automatically, Incrementally, using Free Software

by on April 20, 2010 in SOLUTIONS

Cloudsites recommends creating scheduled Cron jobs for backups if they need to be automated, and does facilitate this need in the manage.rackspacecloud.com control panel. Rackspace unfortunately does not provide sufficient documentation to accomplish this; If you’re not a proficient Unix Admin this is a tough route to take. Consider using an FTP based backup, read more to find out how…

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Monthly Archives do not work in Movable type 4.33

by on January 21, 2010 in SOLUTIONS

If you upgrade to version 4.33 of Movable type, your Monthly Archives will not work. (as of now — Jan, 20th, 2010)…

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Install movable type 4 on Windows Server 2008 with IIS7, PHP, Perl, CGI, MySQL

by on January 21, 2010 in TUTORIALS

This tutorial will take you step by step through the installation and configuration of IIS7, PHP, Perl, CGI, and MySQL for hosting Movable Type on Windows Server 2008.

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