Gravity Forms (www.gravityforms.com), without a doubt is one of the best WordPress forms plugin out there, I have been using it since it was launched and is a brilliant tool and I have it in use on literally hundreds of web sites. However, recently I have had the need...
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[solved] How to Delete Plesk Backups
The following command can be used to delete all the backup files in a plesk server. cd /var/lib/psa/dumps/ rm -rf * When might you need to do this? You might find that your disk runs out of space due to the many automated plesk backups that are run and when you check...
[SOLVED] Issues with PureFTPD with TLS/SSL on Cpanel + ASL
On a couple of Cpanel servers today I was having awful issues getting TLS/SSL to work through pureFTPD in conjunction with the mighty ASL firewall. I found the solution in the end and it was relatively painless. So, you are reading this if you: a. Are running Cpanel...
[solved] – Error reloading bind on ns1: rndc: ‘reload’ failed: failure on cpanel dns only setup
Gosh. The last few days when I update a dns record or my cpanel system adds a dns record to my dns cluster I get the following errors: [code] Bind reloading on maggie using rndc zone: [somedomainname.com] Bind reloading on ns1 using rndc zone: [somedomainname.com]...
[solved] wordpress page showing 404 due to folder permissions
A couple of weeks ago I spent half a day putting in a newsletter sign up function in four languages onto a clients site linked into the signup.to api. On the test server it was working perfect. Opt-in email was arriving and script was executing as it should. I was...
[SOLVED] php + mssql + unicode encoding issues
I have a client who has a mobile web application in 52 languages and recently we moved them to a shiny new cpanel web server and suddenly the encoding broke, resulting in any non english characters displaying as ?? and diamonds with question marks in them....
[solved] .htaccess not working in wordpress sub directory
Today, one of my clients mentioned that his rest api was not working and was returning 404 errors and the iphone app was broken due to the 404 errors. As he is running wordpress the immediate thought was that wordpress was overriding something and showing 404 errors...
[SOLVED] Too many authentication failures using Transmit and SFTP
Yesterday and today, I was trying to connect to a new clients server using SFTP with my mac FTP software Transmit on my mac book pro which is running Mountain Lion. I opened Transmit, entered my new sftp details given to me by the server manager, and received the...
Connect 32 bit Classic ASP Page on 64 bit Windows Server to Remote MYSQL Database
In my company, for our windows machines, we have started to ditch 32 bit OS in favour of 64 bit systems, purely because 64 bit is more scaleable in terms of RAM and CPU for the hungry .asp and .net sites. One issue I came across today was a customer asking how he can...
Stop and Disable Mailman on Cpanel
One of our shared servers was showing several thousand bounce messages in the mail queue all generated via a mailman user. So we decided to kill mailman permanently. However the recomended tweak of switching off Main >> Server Configuration >> Tweak...