I upgraded MariaDB from 10.11 to 11.4 a few months ago and everything appeared to go smoothly until trouble brewed a few days later. After restarting MariaDB following a minor update, MariaDB bombed out with an error. After unsuccessfully troubleshooting for an hour, I bit the bullet and rolled back to a previous backup. What I didn't know at the time, was this was the beginning of my journey ...
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Setting up OpenLDAP & SSSD w/Sudo on Ubuntu 22.04
The reason for creating this guide is I found so many different how-to's on the net that date back over a decade with varying methods of getting OpenLDAP installed, but none got me directly to my final goal of allowing sudo rights to LDAP users. I decided to gather up what I've learned and compile it into one guide for you and my aging brain.
Please keep in mind that even though this guide is ...
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Failing to Suppress PHP Deprecated Messages in WordPress with a Workaround
Some Background on my Failure
I originally wrote an article on how to suppress PHP deprecated messages in the WordPress Debug Log, however, shortly after publishing the article, I found that my "fix" was actually failing miserably. Since then, I've been trying every method I could find, ...
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Using Remmina VNC with unRAID VMs
For the Linux users who don't like using unRAID's browser-based VNC client to connect to their VM's, you may have tried using Remminawith less than stellar results. When I first tried out Remmina with unRAID, I was met with an immediate and abrupt window closure. I tried again thinking this may be a glitch, but sadly saw the same behavior. Some quick Googling didn't unveil a fix so I tabled th ...
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NGINX: Reject Unwanted Traffic
Awhile back, I posted a guide about Migrating from Apache to NGINXand in one of the steps I mistakenly wrote that you should remove the default NGINX config file. At the time, I believed this would block any unwanted traffic to your web server such as web traffic directed at the server's IP address, but I've since learned that NGINX will actually redirect that traffic to the first server block ...
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