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NextCloud Upgrade Commands

I have a docker instance of Nextcloud running on my server. Every time I update to a new version, it requires me to do database updates manually. Doing the updates is not the difficult part, the issue is that sometimes there are memory issues or since they are in a Docker container, the commands have… read more »

Ubuntu Increase Partition Size

After increasing the Disk size from Proxmox, boot the vm from gparted live disk: You will see the unallocated added space. Select the partition you want to add the extra space to, then click on Partition and select Resize/Move.  Here you will be able to simply drag the partition to increment its size. Click Resize/Move… read more »

Ubuntu 20.04 Remove Swap

Disable Swap from the System Check if swap is enabled: sudo swapon –show If enabled, you will see the path to the swap file, if you have a swap file, save file path, to remove it later. To start removing the swap file or partition, start by disabling swap: sudo swapoff -a Remove Swap File… read more »

Zabbix Errors

This are some of the errors that I came across when setting up my zabbix Monitor system: Error: Cannot find value map “Switch Netgear port status” used for item “Port 19 Status” on “Template_Netgear_GS748T Solution: Open the Zabbix Web gui, go to Administration / General Click on the Gui dropdown and select Value Mapping Click… read more »

Fstrim on Ubuntu 18.04

Recently I discovered that my backups of my proxmox virtual machines were taking up too much space on my storage server. After doing some research, i found out that I could run fstrim -v / to remove deleted space from my drive. Now what I needed was a way to automated it. Using Cron I… read more »

Add Dynamic Variable To A WordPress Page

Create a Page Template Create a page template for stores and apply it to a page. Add a Rewrite Tag In your functions.php add a rewrite tag, which lets WordPress know to look for the specific tag Add a Rewrite Rule Now to format the URL and point it to the index.php with the vars,… read more »

WordPress Visitors Same Ip

Today I was able to fix a issue that was happening on one of my WordPress websites. Basically the comments that were being left by users were being recognized by WordPress as comming from the same Ip Address. This Ip address was the address of the nginx proxy. What I had to do to fix… read more »

Heat On Devices

One of the many things I have encounter in the IT world are heat issues. Many times it will reduce the life of a device, and other times, it reduces the performance of it. There was this time when this user complained about her computer being slow and freezing. I noticed that her computer was… read more »

Not Getting Visitor Ip Address

Today I was finally able to find a fix for my visitor ip not showing up on wordpress. Basically when some one would comment on a wordpress post, it would show the server ip address as the visitor ip address. This would happen because I have nginx running along with apache on the same server…. read more »

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