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Andrew Fletcher
How to Create New MySQL User Before you can create a new MySQL user, you need to open a terminal window and launch the MySQL shell as the root user. To do so, enter the following command: sudo mysql –u root –por rather than typing sudo each time you can enter: sudo su mysql -u root -pIn either scenario next type in the root password and press Enter. The prompt will change to mysql>  Database list Can you view the list of databases on the server using the following command: SHOW...
Andrew Fletcher
This short guide explains to you how to extract/unzip .zip archive files to a...
Andrew Fletcher
I prefer htop over top on my Linux server.  Running a Solr index got...
Andrew Fletcher
The generally accepted answer to a mysqldump is: mysqldump -h [host] -u...
Andrew Fletcher
Wanting to create a new repository on GitHub, add in a few of the available...
Andrew Fletcher
On a git pull from remote dev environment to a staging environment running off AWS server... I was greeted with the white screen of death.  While it took me a while to resolve the actual issue, my action plan was as follows:   How to resolve: Look in your log files; Add a few lines to your index.php file   Log files If you have access via ssh they are usually located in /var/log.  To quickly which files have been updated / altered recently, run the following command when...
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I needed the check if a file existed in a directory as the migrate script wasn't...
Andrew Fletcher
Joining a new company / team there is always a lot of new items to...
Andrew Fletcher
Updating Drupal from 8.7.10 to 8.8.x or 8.9.x has seen a significant change...
Andrew Fletcher
As outlined in an earlier article composer php version, when installing the...
Andrew Fletcher
I had been running a few Centos 6 servers just past their EOL (30th November 2020) and it was time to kick in to action a plan I had been working on when I realised EOL was on my doorstep. A month or so beforehand, I started researching options to upgrade to Centos 7.  Okay initially I wanted to jump Centos 7 and charge in to Centos 8 which had a planned EOL of 2029.  CentOS 8 had been stable for well over a year.  Not bad, closer to two years would have been...
Andrew Fletcher
Regular expressions (regex) are extremely useful in extracting information from...
Andrew Fletcher
I need to set the default php-version of a subscription to php7.3.  The...
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Don't worry this is an issue that many Drupal developers have come across....
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Working on a new CentOS 7 server, Node wasn't installed.  You can...