Sharon Murphy

Quick fixes for common errors after installing phpMyAdmin

Included in this post is information on those errors and some general suggestions on setting up your own web hosting on your OS X machine.

Centos As new file patches come out, Centos will need to be updated. Run the following commands to bring the server and its extensions up-to-date: Occasionally you may get this message: There are unfinished transactions remaining. You might consider running yum-complete-transaction, or “yum-complete-transaction –cleanup-only” and “yum history redo last”, first to finish them. If those……

Below is the code added to 192.168.254.246 to back up all the files in the /var/www/marketing/ directory,. It is set to run every day at 1am and saves a zip file with the current date into the /backup directory: This command has been added using crontab -e (vim commands needed here). After making changes, be……

After a bit of trouble-shooting, I discovered that, while Apache may have permission to read/write according to the file permissions above, an additional set of commands need to be run to have Linux verify that Apache really does have those permissions: if the above doesn’t work, you may need to specify certain files/dirs. Health Check……

Since SHA-256 password hashing is used by default since version 8 of MySQL, we run into a problem if users created with this encryption are attempted with a WordPress install. Below are the commands for creating a user with the native password setup (1 create user, 2 create database, 3 give user access to database,……