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How To Install and Configure Mahara on Ubuntu 18.04
In this guide, you will install Mahara and configure it to use a Postgres database as an authentication source. Upon completion, you will have administrative access to a server-based ePortfolio. by @xelawafs -
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How To Install and Configure SimpleSAMLphp for SAML Authentication on Ubuntu 18.04
SimpleSAMLphp is an open-source PHP authentication application that provides support for SAML 2.0. SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language)* is a secure XML-based communication mechanism for exchanging authentication... -
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How To Install and Configure SimpleSAMLphp for SAML Authentication on Ubuntu 16.04
SimpleSAMPLphp is an open-source PHP authentication application that provides support for SAML 2.0 as a Service Provider (SP) or Identity Provider (IdP). In this tutorial you'll install SimpleSamplPHP and configure it... -
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i am not able to login to phpmyadmin!
Use this command to reconfigure phpMyAdmin: sudo dpkg-reconfigure phpmyadmin Just follow the prompts to reset …Accepted Answer: Use this command to reconfigure phpMyAdmin: sudo dpkg-reconfigure phpmyadmin Just follow the prompts to reset … -
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Why my site which uses "Let's Encrypt" is marked as "not safe" by Chrome?
@Mohsen47 raises a good point. Check the browser console to make sure you don’t have any http links like this “`http://www.example… -
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IP address of droplet still points to removed virtual host file.
Try checcking if the site is still enabled in the /etc/apache2/sites-enabled directory. You can do that by ls /etc/a... -
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My server keeps going of for every five days. but my CPU useage is less How can i solve it
I had the same issue a while back, and yes, it was the RAM running out taking down MySQL with it. Increasing the RAM size and addin… -
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Why aren't my Wordpress permalinks working?
Hi @eightysix Have you modified Apache virtual file for your domain to Allow URL rewrites? If not, here’s how you go about … -
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High bandwidth, high cpu no access to SSH, can't even access server through DO's console access.
Hi @keysha033 did you by any chance configure your server to connect to ssh with a port other than port 22? Not sure but double che… -
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Wordpress image with custom plugin pre installed
Hey @saleeh I’d suggest introducing configuration management to achieve this. Try out packer.io . It’s basically a “tool for creati… -
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unable to access domain
Hi @mdshabbir . What happens when you try accessing wordpress using the domain name? Two things I’d suggest you look at: Do y… -
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I want to add a domain that already exists on another server (Shared hosting)
Once you migrate the domain to digital ocean, you can have MX records pointing back to the shared hosting account. You can put up t… -
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http to https on other ip
DO has a nice tutorial on installing an ssl certificate on your server here: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-t… -
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I can't login on my droplet, already tried to reset my root pasword.
Hi @gschnieders, by any chance, did you disabled remote login using root? @xMudrii if that’s the case, will a password reset allow … -
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How to change the public IP address of a droplet?
Hey Sam, It might be more helpful if you shared what you want to achieve. Something that I do to have a public facing IP that ca… -
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What is the most important thing you've done to improve your programming abilities?
Teaching or helping people with their projects is what works for me. Things stick that way and there’s a lot of motivation and purp…