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A quick and dirty way to block torrents from being downloaded on your network is to create a LAN firewall rule in PfSense. Click Firewall -> Rules -> LAN Ensure that…

After deploying a new server and installing WHM the following error was showing when accessing a Joomla site: Error displaying the error page: Application Instantiation Error: The MySQL adapter mysqli…

Quite a nifty piece of software in Ubuntu is DMG2IMG which converts DMG images to IMG (same as ISO). Install DMG2IMG: sudo apt-get install dmg2img Convert the DMG to IMG: dmg2img…

There are two nice utilities to reduce the file size of PDF documents in Ubuntu: Download the following zip and extract the .sh file shrinkpdf.sh Then issue the following command:…

A nice simple solution for this: sudo apt-get install php-gettext

A couple of steps to get system-config-samba to work in Ubuntu 16.04. sudo apt-get install system-config-samba sudo touch /etc/libuser.conf sudo chown root:root ~YOUR-USERNAME/.config/ibus/bus

Firstly ensure that system-config-samba is installed (refer to this post for install instructions). Click File -> Add Share Click Browse and select the folder to be shared Insert a share…

SSH into your WHM server as root and run the following command: nano /usr/my.cnf Paste the following at the end of the file: <span class="pln">sql_mode</span><span class="pun">=</span><span class="pln">NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION</span> Next, edit my.cnf…

A tricky little problem is when installing WHM on a new server, the option “Restrict outgoing SMTP to root, exim, and mailman (FKA SMTP Tweak)” is on by default. To allow…