A Windows 10 user contacted me because the desktop had disappeared. The first thing to check is if Windows is in “Tablet mode” which disables the desktop. Go to the Control panel Search for “tablet” and click on “Table mode settings” In the “When I sign in” change from “Use the apropriate mode for my […]
If you end up missing the menu etc in Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04 and 17.04, i.e. you only see the desktop but nothing more. You can’t even restart the machine. It can be resolved like this: Right click on the desktop and select “Start a new terminal” In the terminal window run the following commands; sudo […]
Using PrestaShop 1.6.1.18, this was an older shop that had been offline for a couple of years. It had been upgraded in steps from PrestaShop 1.4 via 1.5 to 1.6. While testing it before relaunch of the shop a problem was discovered. Sometimes when adding a product to the shopping cart, another random product was […]
There are several descriptions online on how to do this but in one occasion, even though I followed the instructions carefully it kept redirecting me to the old domain name. In my particular case the culprit was that the site used file system cache which was active before the move. The following procedure fixed my […]
Your PFX certificate file is protected with a password. It can be converted to CRT and KEY files using SSL: openssl pkcs12 -in certfile.pfx -nocerts -out keyfile-encrypted.key When you enter this command you will be asked to type in the pfx file password in order to extract the key. You will be asked to enter […]
There are several issues that can cause local anchor links to not scroll to the right position. The first thing to check is if you have an id-tag that has the same name as the anchor. In this case the browser will scroll to the id position instead. The solution is to name the anchor […]
Using Gogodigital Cookie Consent plugin for Joomla! version 3.0.2. In the plugin configuration a custom message and submit label was entered and saved but on the frontend the popup only displays the built in message and button label. Solution: It turns out there is a bug when the message entered has a newline (return). If […]
Problem: When using ORDER BY or GROUP BY, the swedish characters Å,Ä and Ö is sorted as A and O. Solution: add COLLATE utf8_swedish_ci to your ORDER BY or GROUP BY, for example: SELECT field1,field2 FROM table1 ORDER BY field1 ASC should be changed to: SELECT field1,field2 FROM table1 ORDER BY field1 COLLATE utf8_swedish_ci ASC
Using RSForm! Pro together with the RS!Form Pro reCaptcha plugin stopped working, the reCaptcha does not show up in the form anymore. Inspecting the page shows errors like “Unexpected token <” on line 2 and further down complains that RSFormProReCAPTCHAv2 is not defined. The Unexpected token error is probably caused by a line in the <head> […]
Upgrading a PrestaShop 1.5 to 1.6 resulted in Error 500 when visiting the shop frontend. During the upgrade I had selected to disable all non native modules, replace theme with default theme and updating all emails. I tried every trick in the book, like cleaning the cache, disable all caching and compression, etc but it […]