Today I was informed that navigating to a (previously working) Magento installation’s admin page was no longer working. Obviously, paid orders cannot be processed. So it’s pretty serious, to say the least. Stack Overflow gave me the solution, but it’s buried pretty deep down, so I’m copy-pasting for posterity, from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18724995/magento-404-on-admin-page: One common cause for this behavior is an invalid value (or no value at all) being set for a custom admin path.

From the Start menu, right click “Computer”, then “Manage”. “Computer Management” window comes up, navigate to System Tools -> Device Manager > Network adapters. Right click the correct one (e.g. Atheros AR5B97 Wireless Network Adapter), then Uninstall. Keep the driver software for the device, now you should have one less adapter. Again from “Computer Management”, click Action > Scan for hardware changes. The wireless adapter should be detected, and then previously missing wireless network should re-appear.

Recently, I decided to download all my mail into Mail.app. I wanted to be able to receive and send using my existing Gmail account, but it didn’t work for me. I kept getting a prompt that Gmail was offline, when I knew otherwise. (Sending via mail.google.com web app worked, for example.) After some digging, I found the solution in an Apple discussion forum. In case the answer ever gets buried (I hope not), it is related to truncation of the SMTP username; e.

I’ve been doing quite a bit of reading nowadays. Every now and then I happen upon good writing. These resonate with me, so instead of taking a screen capture, I’m re-posting here instead where someone, someday might perhaps admire (and go read the book). Brooks, Terry A Knight of the Word I was just in the neighborhood, and decided to stop by, share a few laughs, maybe see if you’re in the market for a boyfriend.

More of a note to self than anything. As usual, YMMV. Use RPMforge RepoForge package wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm yum install proftpd -y chkconfig --level 345 proftpd on /etc/init.d/proftpd restart netstat -tnlp|grep proftpd Configure iptables iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 21 -j ACCEPT etc/init.d/iptables save etc/init.d/iptables restart New Linux user; e.g., foo useradd foo -p /path/to/home/directory passwd foo Does it work? Command: USER foo Response: 331 Password required for foo Command: PASS ******** Response: 530 Login incorrect.

Was configuring a CentOS 6 server recently, and I decided to comment out all httpd (i.e., Apache web server) LoadModule directives. Upon restart, there were several invalid commands, so I took the time to note ’em down as it wasn’t obvious (to me, at least) which commands were provided by which modules. I liken this to a cheat sheet to http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/ then: Command Module AddHandler mod_mime Alias mod_alias BrowserMatch mod_setenvif DirectoryIndex mod_dir IndexOptions mod_autoindex LanguagePriority mod_negotiation LogFormat mod_log_config Order mod_authz_host TransferLog mod_log_config