Linux

  • Remove WordPress Maintenance Mode

    Sometimes, upgrades fail at some point for some reason. That will leave your site in maintenance mode and unusable. That’s the “Briefly Unavailable for Scheduled Maintenance” that we see while the upgrade is on-going or if it fails. So how do we get out of the maintenance mode?

  • How to Get The First File in Unix

    In case you are looking files using ls or find command and only want to get the first file found, the command would be like. ls -l /any/path/filename*|sed -e ‘s///,/g’|awk -F “,” ‘{print $NF}’|head -1 Of course, you can also use it in find command. find /any/path/ -name “filename*” -type f|sed -e ‘s///,/g’|awk -F “,”…

  • SpotVPS First Impressions

    After the unfortunate incident last week with NordicVPS, I decided to look for a new VPS host. As usual, I went to lowendbox and get the reviews in webhostingtalk. It’s there where I stumbled upon a promo from SpotVPS. As it turns out, SpotVPS is a low-cost VPS offering of ComfortHost.NET. And who are they?…

  • How to Upgrade MySQL 5.0 to 5.5 in CentOS

    I upgraded the installed MySQL on my two VPSes about two months ago and I thought I already saved the steps somewhere or at least the saved the URL of the how to. I did not so when I tried to upgrade the Pagudpud Resort‘s (owned by the Jackoleros) database server, I don’t know where…

  • LAMP Install on VPS : CentOS5+Apache+MySQL+suPHP

    Here’s the work-in-progress instructions for setting up a LAMP. It’s been sitting on my draft for ages and I have to publish it because a few of my friends need it. **** NOTE : If you notice, it’s still a draft. It came from a number of sources but these are the steps I use.…

  • SubVersion Initialization Error

    After installing subversion, I hit some error when I tried to restart Apache. When I removed/renamed the subversion.conf and the error went away. Obviously, subversion did not work. So I investigated to find out the root cause.