Each day turning on the computer there was a catch-up of the outstanding updates. Following a recent batch of updates I found that unattended updates was operational. I must admit I prefer to be in control of the computer updates, deciding which to update and more cautiously the ones to be removed. Wishing to disable […]
Category: Linux
Replacing firefox-esr with Firefox
I’d like to install the regularly updated version of Firefox. A new installation of Debian was showing as using the stable long term supported Firefox ESR (extended support release) package. The task was to remove the package firefox-esr and install the package firefox, or its installation equivalent. To delete the currently installed package firefox-esr will […]
Force Browser to Reload Cache From the Website
After updating a website, visitors see it as broken because their browser continues to reference the older JavaScript, JQuery and CSS files. How to force the browsers of website visitors to make use of the newer updated support files? Testing a website yourself its possible to refresh the browsers cache. But for the visitor to […]
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Setting a Custom 404 Page with htaccess
I bought a custom HTML website template with a 404.html page. How do I use it? If I enter a wrong website address I don’t see the 404 page my browser simply shows a generic message from the hosting control panel. The server needs to be configured to tell it what to do with when […]
Speech-dispatcher Using Legacy Directory in /var/run
With an update of Debian packages there was a message related to the speech dispatcher. The older version of the program used the directory /var/run/speech-dispatcher, whilst this version 0.8.8-8 was looking to use the directory /run/speech-dispatcher Given below is the relevant lines from the apt upgrade, relating to speech-dispatcher. Setting up speech-dispatcher (0.9.0-5) … [speech-dispatcher.conf:1] […]
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htaccess Difference Between Files and FilesMatch
Whilst writing the two recent articles about blocking xml-rpc access and the matching of files in htaccess. .htaccess uses Files and FilesMatch to control access to files. For example for the single file wp-config.php <Files “wp-config.php”> Order Allow, Deny allow from all deny from 192.0.2.52 </Files> There’s also <FilesMatch “\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$”> Order Allow, Deny allow from […]
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Blocking xml-rpc Access
I’ve heard that I should disable xml-rpc on a WordPress website. Why should I disable it and how? XML-RPC What is it? And how to Disable. What is xml-rpc? This is the connection for the WordPress API interface. It allows apps such as the WordPress app on an iPhone or Android device to connect to […]
Using htaccess to Restrict File Access by IP Address
Every so often there’s a new exploit targeted. This shows as an increase in the rate against a particular file. For example some time ago there were lots of attempts trying to access to the file upload.php in either themes or plug-ins. This reflects a vulnerability in an inclusion within a number of themes. With […]
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PHP Fatal error: include_path=’.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear’
A fresh install and an installation of WordPress via the Debian apt package management gave the error PHP Fatal error: include_path=’.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear’ On a development computer I chose to install WordPress via the package manager as opposed to creating Apache site directories. With MySQL and Apache installed WordPress is added by executing, at the command prompt […]
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Open IceDove Email Link in IceWeasel
Links in IceDove email messages weren’t opening in IceWeasel. How to configure IceDove link options? I found reports on the Internet that the file ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/default/<profile>/prefs.js should be edited as follows: user_pref(“network.protocol-handler.app.http”,”iceweasel”); user_pref(“network.protocol-handler.app.https”,”iceweasel”) I considered IceWeasel’s configuration, available through the about:config To make mailto links in firefox (iceweasel) open thunderbird (idedove) automatically, type about:config in the […]
