Category: Computing

Symptoms This happened right after the installation of ownCloud 5.0.13, when trying to log in for the first time. This failed, and the login page was simply served again (without any error message or explanation). The URL of that login page was then something like http://example.com/index.php?redirect_url=%2Findex.php%2Fapps%2Ffiles. During installation, I also had to create an xcache […]

Edit the website record in ISPConfig 3, there go to the options tab and in line "PHP open_basedir" set the value "none". Save, wait a minute for the job to disappear from ISPConfig's job queue (Monitor -> Show Jobqueue) and confirm that your change made it into the configuration with a command like cat /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/web3.conf […]

There are two main reasons for this: the next job causing an error, or a stale lock. How to fix a job queue stuck with a job that causes an error Check for errors. Go to "Monitor -> Show System Log" and check if there is a message of loglevel "Error". If yes, proceed below; […]

Huawei 3G USB sticks ("dongles") support a special command to control the mode how they will appear to a host computer. This allows to switch off the flipflop USB capability, also called USB modeswitching. USB modeswitching means that these and many other USB 3G sticks at first only provide a virtual CD-ROM drive to the […]

These instructions were tested on a Flytouch 10 (more specs here), also known as Flytouch X, Superpad 10, Superpad X. The model naming of this Shenzai stuff is a mess, so be sure to check the linked specs and photos to make sure it's your device. Configuration For a compatible 3G stick to work, you […]

Requirements I got quite annoyed by the vendor lock-in of Plesk Panel, so now I'm looking for a free and open alternative. The requirements were quite straight-forward: good software quality free and open source software running on a Linux server multi-domain capability multi-client capability FTP, webserver and e-mail configuration support per-client SSH access Alternatives List […]

Just rebooting the phone should fix this if this option is at least usually shown when connecting the phone by USB cable to a computer. It does not help to use the feature in settings to "Safely Remove SD Card" and then drawing the SD card out and plugging it in again – the SD […]