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When adding POP3 email accounts under Gmail’s ‘Check email from other accounts (using POP3):’ setting, you may encounter the following error message Server returned error “[AUTH] Plaintext authentication disallowed on non-secure (SSL/TLS) connections.” This...
This is quite a common issue in Magento where some orders which were paid via Paypal get stuck in ‘Pending Payment’ status. After debugging the issue, often you’ll arrive at the problem of the IPN...
So on 19th April 2015, every Magento store running a version lower than 1.9.1.0 received the inbox message about needing to apply the security patches SUPEE-5344 and SUPEE-1533. This caused quite a stir amongst Magento...
If you’re running a Magento website on a Linux server, then there is a handy Linux utility which you can use to split your Magento log files located at /var/log depending on a variety...
So for some time now, I’ve been wondering why Google have made it so impossible to just link to files hosted in your Google Drive folders. Simply embedding images on pages of your website...
We’ve come across this a few times, and usually we manage to rectify the issue relatively quickly but this time, we spent the last two days debugging this issue. Even reverting/switching themes and rebuilding...
We recently had to upgrade PHP from 5.3 to 5.4 on a CentOs 6.6 build (which by default is packaged with PHP 5.3) and found quite a number of differing tutorials and recommendations on the...
Searching To search an entire project:- Where: S:\sites\domain.co.uk To search an entire project and exclude a directory:- Where: S:\sites\live\finishingtouch.co.uk, -*/assets/*
Server / Spec Checks Checking the server memory (RAM) consumption:-
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free -m |
Checking the server HDD consumption:-
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df -h |
Checking the size of each top-level directories from a directory:-
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du -h --max-depth=1 /path/to/directory/ |
Checking the server date/time:-
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date |
Checking...
Quite often, you’ll notice the time stamp (and maybe even the dates tamp) incorrect on entries in the log which can sometimes prove a frustrating experience trying to identify when exactly various errors occurred....
