Author: Mike

Milind Koyande loves to work on new technologies specially virtualization and troubleshoot server problems. I’m an avid photographer and love to spend my free time close to nature, trying to capture its glory on my camera.

Steps to Secure WordPress

Recently I found that many wordpress based websites got hacked or compromised. So, I started searching Internet for security measures which can be took to protect WordPress based websites. Following are some points which I found common on various websites. 1. Vulnerabilities in the WordPress Vulnerabilities of WordPress could be defined as program or script
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Faster website access using Mod_Deflate Compression

There are many reasons for a website to run slow one of them is heavy content i.e. the website content received by client (browsers) is larger in size and on slower connections this could be a nightmare. Now using Mod_Deflate you can compress the size of files before delivering it to clients. Mod_Deflate is based
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FIX:- make: *** [libavdevice/v4l.o] Error 1

ERROR: While installing FFMPEG on a server when we run “make” after “./configure” it gives following error: math-errno       -c -o libavdevice/v4l.o libavdevice/v4l.c In file included from libavdevice/v4l.c:32: /usr/include/linux/videodev.h:56: error: syntax error before "ulong" /usr/include/linux/videodev.h:72: error: syntax error before '}' token libavdevice/v4l.c: In function `grab_read_header': libavdevice/v4l.c:77: error: storage size of 'tuner' isn't known libavdevice/v4l.c:141: error: invalid
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FIX:-Container is already locked

Sometime when automated OR Manual Virtuozzo backup process gets stuck OR sometime a VPS stuck while starting up OR stopping during this stage its impossible to make any changes on that VPS. You can stop the VPS or kill the process which is running. Making any updates or trying to restart the VPS shows message
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Disable IPv6 Components on Windows vista, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the future of Internet and soon all the domains will switch to it. Many Governments OR ISP’s has already implemented IPv6 in their countries and reasons. All the Operating Systems which are coming in market by default supports IPv6. Microsoft Windows Vista, 7 and 2008 server editions also supports
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FIX:- (28)No space left on device: Couldn’t create accept lock

Sometime Apache (HTTPD) service on a Server stops and while restart it shows following messages in error_logs [Wed Sep 17 00:28:23 2008] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/local/apache/bin/suexec) [Wed Sep 17 00:28:23 2008] [crit] (28)No space left on device: mod_rewrite: Parent could not create RewriteLock file /usr/local/apache/logs/rewrite_lock Configuration Failed Such errors appears when you are
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Portmap Error: Unable to receive; errno = Connection reset by peer

_ While setting and configuring NFS share on a server when you try to restart portmap service you get following error [root@server mounted]# service portmap restart pmap_getmaps rpc problem: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection reset by peer Stopping portmap:                                          [FAILED] Starting portmap:                                          [  OK  ] [root@server mounted]# Logs (tail -f /var/log/message) shows that
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How to switch from KDE to GNOME in openSUSE

openSUSE is a general purpose operating system built on top of the Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported openSUSE Project and sponsored by SUSE and a number of other companies. After Novell acquired SUSE Linux in January 2004, Novell decided to release the SUSE Linux Professional product as a 100% open source project. openSUSE by
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