After upgrading to Joomla 3.6.3 I got this error message when trying to login to administrator: Error decoding JSON data: object property name separator ‘:’ expected the bad data is: {“”} Solution was found here using the method suggested by Brent Laminack. You need to issue the following SQL command using for example phpmyadmin: update TABLEPREFIX_modules […]
If the Magento 2.1 setup readiness check fails with an error message displaying nothing for the PHP version, similar to this: PHP Version Check Your PHP version is . The required PHP version is . Hide detail You might also see error messages about open basedir restrictions, similar to this: Cannot determine required PHP extensions: […]
Incoming email to osTicket, but attached files from the email message are missing in the ticket. Make sure attachements are enabled for tickets in osTicket. Login as osTicket administrator If you are not on the administrative control panel, switch to it by clicking Administrative control panel (top right menu) Settings -> Tickets Scroll down to […]
In Windows 7. 8 or 10 Contacts there is only a possibility to import contacts in CSV format. If you have your contacts in VCF files you need to use Windows Live mail program in order to import them. First of all, if you have your contacts in many different VCF files it can be […]
After uploading/copying the files from the upload directory to a osTicket installation in order to upgrade it to osTicket 1.9.14, I got the error message ‘Access denied’ when trying to login as administrator to finalize the upgrade. Deleting the osTicket session cookie did not help either. It turned out that the problem was that all […]
A Mac suddenly displayed the message “Your startup disk is almost full” to the user. However, there should be plenty of space left on the disk. Something was eating up the disk rapidly. Some investigation using Activity Monitor showed that a process called fontworker was also eating a large chunk of the CPU as well. In […]
When working with template files like css in Joomla the codemirror editor is used. However, a great annoyance is that it is not possible to use the browser search (CTRL-F) to find code. When your css becomes large this can be really annoying. There is a search addon available for codemirror however. This is how […]
To find all files modified on, for example, January 21 2013: find . -newermt 2013-01-21 ! -newermt 2013-01-22
When you are dealing with a hacked or otherwise compromised website where someone has installed a backdoor or other kinds of malicious code you will often find php files with code packed into non-readable format using php eval, like eval(gzinflate(base64_decode. To find out what the code does, copy the entire eval code (including “eval(“) into this […]
USB memory sticks or external disks that has been formatted on a Mac might not be readable if you connect it to a Windows computer. The reason is that the Mac has formatted it using a file system unknown by Windows. To read the disk you can use the free tool hfsexplorer.