Earlier, I wrote an article on how to export data from the macOS Wiki Service. But now that you have your data in a file, where are you going to import it into. Well, you could do some kind of custom hosting service. Or if you want to run your own server, you could use a Synology. Synology makes installing WordPress a snap. To get started, first open Package Manager. From Package Manager, search for WordPress.Click Install.Click Yes to install the dependencies.Enter a username and password to pass to Maria DB (root with a blank password).Enter a username and password for the wordpress database and click Next. Click Apply. Click Open…
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Replace the Web Services in macOS Server with MAMP Pro
In an earlier article, I mentioned that MAMP Pro was still the best native GUI for managing web services on the Mac, now that macOS Server will no longer serve up those patchy services. After we cover the management in this article, you’ll likely understand why it comes it at $59. So you’ve installed MAMP. And you need more than the few basic buttons available there. So MAMP Pro came with it and you can try it for a couple of weeks for free. When you open MAMP Pro, you’ll see a screen where you can perform a number of management tasks. This is a more traditional side-bar-driven screen that…
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Using The WordPress API
WordPress has an app. That means there’s an API to normalize communication using a predictable programmatic interface. In this case, as with many others, that’s done using a standard REST interface to communicate. The easiest way to interact with any API is to just read some stuff from the server via curl. You can feed curl the URL to the API by using your URL followed by /wp-json – as follows, assuming a URL of https://www.krypted.com: curl https://krypted.com//wp-json To view header information: curl -s -D - https://krypted.com/ -o /dev/null In the below example we’ll ask for a list of posts by adding /wp/v2/posts to the URL: curl https://krypted.com//wp-json/wp/v2/posts You’ll see…
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List of ISO Country Codes
The following is a list of ISO country codes: AFGHANISTAN AF ALBANIA AL ALGERIA DZ AMERICAN SAMOA AS ANDORRA AD ANGOLA AO ANTARCTICA AQ ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA AG ARGENTINA AR ARMENIA AM ARUBA AW AUSTRALIA AU AUSTRIA AT AZERBAIJAN AZ BAHAMAS BS BAHRAIN BH BANGLADESH BD BARBADOS BB BELARUS BY BELGIUM BE BELIZE BZ BENIN BJ BERMUDA BM BHUTAN BT BOLIVIA BO BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA BA BOTSWANA BW BOUVET ISLAND BV BRAZIL BR BRITISH INDIAN OCEAN TERRITORY IO BRUNEI DARUSSALAM BN BULGARIA BG BURKINA FASO BF BURUNDI BI CAMBODIA KH CAMEROON CM CANADA CA CAPE VERDE CV CAYMAN ISLANDS KY CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC CF CHAD TD CHILE CL CHINA CN…
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Resolve InnoDB Errors In MySQL
Database won’t start? InnoDB errors are a pain. Where was krypted for a month? Did everything finally get to me and I gave up blogging? No, the site ended up having some problems with corruption in some rows of the InnoDB tables. But, I was able to get the site back up by putting the database into recovery mode. How did I do this? It’s pretty straight forward. Open my.cnf and paste these lines in there: innodb_force_recovery=3 innodb_purge_threads=0 Once the corruption is resolved, bring up empty databases and import your mysqldump into the new databases and link your site back up. But, the InnoDB force recovery puts the database into…
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Install Pow for Rails Testing On OS X
Pow is a Rack server for OS X. It’s quick and easy to use and lets you skip that whole update an Apache file, then edit /etc/hosts, ethane move a file, then run an app type of process. To get started with Pow, curl it down and pipe it to a shell, then provide the password when prompted to do so: odr:~ charlesedge$ curl get.pow.cx | sh % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 9039 100 9039 0 0 10995 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 10996 *** Installing Pow 0.5.0... *** Installing local configuration files... /Users/charlesedge/Library/LaunchAgents/cx.pow.powd.plist *** Installing system…
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20 Rules of Capitalization
Yesterday, I wrote an article on technical writing. Today, I’m laying out a few basic rules with regards to when to capitalize things. This is pretty straight forward but I find it can help to remember the rules to lay them out in a basic way. These things should have their first character capitalized: The first letter of a sentence. This includes a quoted sentence inside a sentence but not a phrase within a sentence. This also includes the first letter of a terminal command when a sentence starts with a command, although I try to restructure those sentences when they come up as it’s not a hard thing to…
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WordPress Site Stuck In Maintenance Mode
When doing updates in WordPress, upgrading the WordPress version or the Plug-Ins causes the site to enter into Maintenance Mode. While in Maintenance Mode, a message appears that says “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.” rather than the actual site. Sometimes, especially if you’re using the automatic updating functions, an update might fail and the site may be stuck in Maintenance Mode. WordPress looks at the root level of a directory for some hidden files that can tell a site to operate in a different manner. If there’s a file called “.maintenance” then the site will display the message above. When an update of a Plug-in fails,…
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Vulnerability Scanning Web Servers Using Nikto On OS X
I’ve had a pretty easy time using Nikto over the years. Nikto is a security scanner specific to web servers. I did a post on Nessus recently, but Nessus is a tool for looking at any service running on a system and trying to find available vulnerabilities. Nikto is can do many of the same things, but is specific and therefore more in depth for web servers. This involves looking at things like CGI directories and robots.txt files as well. Nikto is written in Perl. In order to do everything Nikto can do there are a few perl mules that need to be installed. But let’s look at one of…
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Comments On https://krypted.com/
Comments on this site have been a pain since I enabled them about 2 1/2 years ago. I believe I enabled them due to something some judgmental person said when they couldn’t comment on an article I had written. During the first year, there was a lot of fine tuning the spam blocking to try and keep out the spammy crap. That continues to be a work in progress, but it seems to be in pretty good shape. During those couple of years I ended up racking up a queue of about 7,000 in the spam category and another 2,000+ in the pending category (which meant I need to deal…