Category Archives: Linux

Un-denying a Denied Host

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Walt Stoneburner

A great guy named Nicholas put out an easy to use script to unban an ip address that’s been banned by denyhosts. Here’s me gushing with praise since I could be lazy and not have to write it, along with the script so you can benefit from his contribution as well. Continue reading →

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WordPress FTPS is not SFTP

Posted on December 24, 2010 by Walt Stoneburner

Is WordPress giving you server errors when you try to update or upload themes? Are your only two options FTP and FTPS (which is not SFTP)? Here’s how to fix that, make WordPress work with SSH, giving you an SSH2 option for updating. And it works. Continue reading →

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Virtual Server Problems

Posted on April 2, 2010 by Walt Stoneburner

I recently switched operating system vendors, and to my surprise when I went to port over the web content from one system to another, things didn’t go as smoothly as I had hoped. What used to be /etc/httpd was now … Continue reading →

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FIX: undefined symbol: apr_ldap_ssl_init

Posted on April 13, 2009 by Walt Stoneburner

Did an update to Ubuntu Jaunty and Apache stopped working with the message “undefined symbol: apr_ldap_ssl_init”. This post is how I fixed it. Continue reading →

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LIBLDAP2 Not Installable

Posted on September 17, 2008 by Walt Stoneburner

Unable to find a solution related apt-get failing on Ubuntu while trying to upgrade packages depending on the libldap2 (>= 2.1.17-1) package, I figured out what was causing the problem… additional repositories in my /etc/apt/sources.list file. Here’s what I did to finally be able to upgrade cleanly. Continue reading →

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Ubuntu and Parallels Rescue Broken XP

Posted on June 30, 2007 by Walt Stoneburner

How I recovered a badly damaged XP box with severe Windows Update problems using Ubuntu and Parallels for OS X. Continue reading →

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