Today I went to update some plugins on one WordPress installation but then I accidentally closed the tab while update was in process. When I went back to WP admin or (to blog homepage) I was getting this error: Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.
Since I couldn’t access WP Admin my hands were tied and I could do anything. So I logged in at the FTP to see how the plugins folder looks like and is something damaged.
And in pubic_html folder I noticed file .maintenance. I made backup of it and then deleted it and reloaded the blog and – IT WAS WORKING AGAIN!
And WP admin was working again!
WordPress never stops amazing me!
Making awesome business card is really important if you want to leave a good impression to people you plan doing business with. Here’s one great, 100% geek, business card idea…
Today, while I was working with jQuery I ran on this error Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected end of input while troubleshooting my code in Chrome. And since Chrome it didn’t report error on any specific line I had to Google for it 🙂
Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected end of input
And after opening few pages I found out that this error codes happens when you forget closing “}”. That can happen often when writing JavaScript code.
Locating that is not easy, especially if you’r code is sloppy and you have a lot of it. Luckily my code is always very nicely written so I got it solved quickly. But in case your code is really messy or is compressed (with some JavaScript compressing tool like jscompress.com) you can copy/paste your JavaScript code into jsbeautifier.org, click on Beautify JavaScript (select the options you want on the right side of the screen first) and see if all of the indentations are correct.
Beautiful and Geeky.
What’s iptables?
Iptables is the current Linux firewall and routing service. It controls incoming and outgoing network.
How to stop/start/restart iptables?
Basically just like any other Linux service:
service iptables start
service iptables stop
service iptables restart
How to check if iptables is currently running?
Simply call service status
service iptables status
and check the result:
Firewall is stopped.
If the status message is “Firewall is stopped.” that means that iptables are not running and you should start it with sertvice iptables start. If you get some tables with bunch of geek stuff that means that iptables are running.
How to automatically start iptables service on Linux boot?
To enable iptables starting on boot run
chkconfig iptables on
or run code below to disable it
chkconfig iptables off
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This simple guide will help you secure your server in indirect way by hiding software versions from possible attackers. This can help you prevent many automated attacks and attacks based on software version number. If a hacker want’s to probe your system for hole he’ll start from collecting all version numbers from your running services. This guide will teach you setup common services not to give away their version numbers. This is called Security by obscurity and it’s not something to rely on but it can lower chances of getting your system hacked.
Apache (Web Server)
Let’s start with Apache first. It’s config file should at path
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Open that with an editor of choice. For beginners I always suggest Midnight Commander but if you’re more experienced you can use antother editor like pico or vi. Anyway, in MC open file for editing by pressing F4 while the file is selected.
Locate those two lines and set it as follows. If you cant find them – add them.
ServerSignature Off
ServerTokens Prod
Server Signature will remove the identification of Apache version from error pages, and ServerTokens will identify Apache as “apache” without version number or OS information. Save the file and restart the Apache.
service httpd restart
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