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Andrew Fletcher
I'm in an environment where the default branch is staging and I'm attempting to run a git merge.  However, in actioning this command, I'm been greeted with the following response 'not something we can merge' ❯ git merge origin/{branch} merge: origin/{branch} - not something we can mergeTo resolve this, first I attempted to do a git checkout to the branch But this was swiftly meet with "did not match any file(s) known to git" git checkout {branch} error: pathspec '{branch}' did not match...
Andrew Fletcher
How to count the number of files in a directory.  At some point you'll have...
Andrew Fletcher
I've recently upgraded the server Ubuntu 20.04 updating the PHP version from 7.4...
Andrew Fletcher
After cloning a site, next you will want to import the config file.  Which...
Andrew Fletcher
Find by file name To perform a find command in terminal use find / -name...
Andrew Fletcher
I had generated a backup of key directories on the server - see Create a Ubuntu backup shell script.  With a backup in hand, now it was time to test how to unpack a backup and overwrite the directories. First I unpacked the backup to a temporary directory tmp-cc. Now I wanted to replace several of the directories on the server.  Starting with home, var and etc.   But what is an efficient method to overwrite a directory?   Also removing any directories that aren't in the...
Andrew Fletcher
An approach to generating a backup server is using a shell script.  A...
Andrew Fletcher
Creating a bash script Bash scripts are files containing code that tell your...
Andrew Fletcher
How do you generate a .pem file from an existing .ppk key? Is putty on your...
Andrew Fletcher
In this woalk through I am going to use GitHub.  However, the steps are...
Andrew Fletcher
The cache system in Drupal 9 delivers the API with the elements required for creation, storage and invalidation of cached data.  Drupal is structured so initially data is stored in the database.  Whereas, files are stored in the following directories: sites/default/files/css sites/default/files/js sites/default/files/phpFocusing on database storage, from a performance perspective the default cache is managed via the admin interface admin/config/development/performanceOn this page,...
Andrew Fletcher
Installing Varnish to increase the speed of the page load. Install varnish using...
Andrew Fletcher
In terminal I ran a regular command - compose update.  Something I've...
Andrew Fletcher
Currently I'm working through an app that has been abandoned by the developers....
Andrew Fletcher
First off, this isn't the only method to achieve the outcome of emptying a...