Ok, it’s been driving me nuts for a while now that I’ve not been able to migrate files from a webserver directly up to an Amazon S3 account. I know this has been around a bit, but I finally found it and had great success 🙂
Tim Kay created his own tool that can be installed on most servers 🙂 Check out his aws tool.
A client of mine had an encounter with a nasty hack using an installation of the theme/plugin, optimize press, on a WordPress site. The hack gives over control of your hosting account. Here’s an indepth write up…
Ok, so ever since I upgraded to Mavericks from Mountain Lion, I’ve had crazy issues dealing with font files that I’ve downloaded. At first, I thought it might be some sort of font issue with Mavericks, but it turns out it’s a quarantine issue with downloaded files.
For a bit now, OSX quarantines files that are downloaded. It’s a nice security feature, but dang, it’s really messing me up :/ I’m not sure yet why my box is behaving this way. I’m sure there’d be massive outcry if this were a rampant issue.
When a file is downloaded, some extra meta is added to it. You can tell from the command line as the permissions look something like this when you list all aka ‘ls -la’ …
drwxr-xr-x@
The work around I’ve pieced together that I have to do each time I download a zip file is to unpack it, then run xattr on it to remove the quarantine flag. Here’s an example of a style.css file that I ran this on to allow scripts on my box to see the file.
xattr -d -r com.apple.quarantine style.css
or
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine style.css
What should happen is when I click to unzip the zip file, I should get a GUI alert that asks me if I really want to open this file from the internet. Sadly, it’s not happening on my box.
Anyway, hope this helps the random person out there searching for a possible solution.
It would be helpful to let you know how to actually find the bit of data to remove. Above you see com.app.quarantine. That’s the metadata you need to remove. To find it simply type…
xattr somefilename
That’ll output a string which you’d put in place of ‘com.apple.quarantine’ as seen above.
Sometimes I’m called upon to set up a Google business apps account and migrate folks emails over. What can happen, depending upon how you do this is that you get thousand of emails in the inbox that are unread. Needless to say, the client doesn’t really have that many new emails. You can’t go in one by one and mark them as read. I just found a nice little post that shows you how to create a filter in gmail to handle all your email status’ at once!
Here’s the original source:
http://www.apejet.org/aaron/blog/2008/06/08/gmail-tip-mark-all-unread-mail-as-read/
So, today I was helping out a colleague with some WordPress installations. When adding plugins or updating ones that were there, I encountered this well commented but not resolved error…
PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature
Now, there’s a bunch of folks talking about this issue, with solutions ranging from not enough disk space, to permissions issues.
This issue occurred for me on a mediatemple grid server. I was not able to upload or upgrade any WordPress plugins on new or older versions of WordPress. This occurred in WordPress installs that did not have this problem before. Further, if I was on the server via the commandline, I could scp the zip files up and unzip them. The issue was only within the WordPress GUI. So, my guess is whatever process WordPress uses to unzip plugins is what’s causing the problem.
I’m pretty sure that the issue came about when the ZIP package was globally updated on the server recently. Since the php.ini file for the account was customized in some way, and it didn’t reference the correct zip extension, unpacking zip files via the WordPress GUI failed.
When I added ‘extension = zip.so’ to the php.ini file, this resolved the issue. I don’t know that this is the perfect solution for anyone else, but just another data point for folks looking for info.
Hope this helps someone out there 🙂
Well, a client of mine would like to have their blog posts be embedded with the appropriate code for Google’s rich snippets.
It sounds pretty cool to me. I’m going to test it out, and if I like, then bake into all sites I work on.
