Whew… long title no? I’ve spent the past few days trying to get my WordPress app to work on my iPhone. I kept getting “Http 1.1/404″ errors. I knew the login was right and tried countless variations of this site’s WordPress URL, xmlrpc.php location, etc. What finally did it was installing the free ConfigServer ModSecurity Control, or CMC for short. After installing, your cPanel WHM should show a link to the plugin on the bottom left of the screen.
Once CMC pulls up, you will notice a big text box labeled “mod_security rule ID list”. XMLRPC has an ID of 90001, which you need to type in the box, save the global whitelist, and boom… you are done.
This magical plugin works with anything that mod_security is blocking. If something isn’t working right on your site, you can check the mod_security logs in WHM by going to “plugins -> mod security”. Everything in the log has an “ID” and that’s what you’ll need to tell CMC to unblock. You can also disable mod_security for an entire domain all together, but this is highly not recommended!
This is a quick post that will hopefully help someone else out there. I just bought an inexpensive (very inexpensive) 40″ television from Amazon, built by TCL. Getting it to work with my DirecTV universal remote has been an hour of life wasting headaches that I have finally resolved. I figured this was going to be difficult, since the TCL manual says “this TV utilizes new remote control signals and may not be compatible with your existing universal remote…” Awesome.
Anyway, I have the “standard” DirecTV universal remote, model RC34 (shown at the top left of the remote in small print). I found that the RCA code “11547″ gets the TV to work with power on/off and volume; the only two features I needed (simple setup). By the way, I did try the built in DirecTV receiver programming options and nothing helped. Enjoy!
Working in the field, I use a lot of “apps” that give me access to my files remotely (Strongspace, Expandrive, Transmit, Dropbox, etc.). Sometimes though, I have the need to copy “hidden” files (.htaccess – for example) to/from my online storage locations. On OSX Lion, showing these types of files is off by default.
There are software packages out there that will show these files for you, but you can turn this on with a quick command-line entry in Terminal:
- Open Terminal
- Type: defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES
- Now hold ‘alt’ on the keyboard while clicking on the Finder icon. Click “relaunch”. Wa-La…hidden files!
- Quit Terminal
Done! Now all hidden files will show (including on your desktop). To turn it back off, do the following:
- Open Terminal
- Type: defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles NO
- Now hold ‘alt’ on the keyboard while clicking on the Finder icon. Click “relaunch”. Wa-La…NO hidden files!
- Quit Terminal
It’s quick and easy, and you don’t need to install other software packages to make this work. As far as I know, this trick works on OSX 10.7.x.
I use a Macbook Air 13″ and noticed that when I plug in my external monitor – then unplug later on – my Mission Control wallpapers are messed up. See, I use Hot Corners to access Mission Control, to access and create new desktops, and after using my external monitor, I noticed that my Mission Control wallpaper is full screen, essentially blocking the view of the desktops I’ve created.
To fix this, I used to restart the computer – a small price to pay for getting my Mission Control back to normal. Plus, with OSX Lion, my windows came back to life when I rebooted (mostly). Alas, I wanted an easier way to fix my problem and I’ve found one. Using Terminal, type in:
killall Dock
This will reset the wallpapers, except those that you have custom placed in each desktop. No need to reboot anymore! I’m using OSX 10.7.3 but this also worked on 10.7.x before I upgraded. Enjoy.
One of my clients runs their own Crashplan Pro server and needed help installing their SSL cert. I came across an error and thought I would post the fix here. Keep in mind that I’m using GoDaddy for the SSL but the error we’ll get is related to the Java Development Kit (JDK) install on the server. Continue Reading…
There are plenty of articles out there on how to add new storage to Linux. This is something I don’t do that often, so I’m going to document it here for future reference – maybe it’ll help someone as well.
My Linux VM is a CentOS 5.5 64-bit machine running on ESX 4.1. I’ve directly attached iSCSI storage to it within vSphere and now I need to have the VM actually see the storage. To the command line! Continue Reading…
