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  • Default web site will launch when Apache cannot match the domain name user requested with one of the hosted domains. To change the default web site in Plesk: Tools and Settings > IP Addresses Click on your IP Address Select…

  • PHP PEAR was not installed on my 1&1 VPS (CentOS 7) at all, so the first step was to to install it:  yum install php-pear

  • Issue XCloner Backup processes WordPress site backup without any errors but produces only a tiny 2KB .tar archive with a single file inside (administrator\backups\index.html). The strange thing is that XCloner backup log shows that thousands of files were detected and processed.

  • Issue After moving a WordPress blog to a new server admin user can no longer access admin control panel. The same user can login to the website front-end with no issues, but as soon as he tries to access wp-admin page…

  • Issue FTP clients fail to connect to Plesk FTP Server (ProFTPd) hosted on CentOS. FTP login actually succeeds, but directory listing command times out. Error: Connection timed out after 20 seconds of inactivity.Error: Failed to retrieve directly listing. Resolution The issue occurred because…

  • I recently had a small job to configure few Cisco WAP121 wireless access points for a client to be used as Wi-Fi extenders. On WAP121 this can be done in two ways – “WDS Bridge” and “WorkGroup Bridge“.  WorkGroup Bridge is…

  • Issue Cisco WAP121 Wi-Fi access points do not work properly as wireless repeaters (extending signal from a Hitron cable modem/router). WAP121 actually establishes connection to the main router and can be used as a bridge for wired clients. However, as soon…

  • Issue After upgrading Microsoft Office 2013 to Office 2016, Outlook 2016 no longer works properly with Microsoft Exchange 2010 accounts and frequently crashes. Trying to remove the old Outlook profile and creating a new one fails because auto-discovery is not configured on…

  • To customise Gantry based Joomla template’s CSS (Cascading Style Sheets): Go to templates/template_name/css folder and create a file with name template_name-custom.css Place your CSS customisation in this file Refresh the webpage, if necessary clear browser’s cache For example, let’s say we want…

  • Issue A website throws following pop-up messages on every singe page:  Some files on the server may be missing or incorrect. Clear browser cache and try again. If the problem persists please contacts website author.

  • Issue After upgrading PHP from 5.4 to 7.0 following warning is displayed:  Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; Pages has a deprecated constructor in /home4/webmaster/public_html/website/classes/pages.class.php on line…

  • Issue Joomla’s Kunena forum breaks after attempting upgrading to version 5.0.6 (using Joomla auto-updater). Upgrade fails, in the front-end the forum displays “Offline” message. Trying to get into Kunena back-end admin panel triggers an attempt to resume the upgrade which immediately…