Monthly Archives: July 2015

Mount Drobo 5n from Ubuntu 14

Had to do some searching to figure this out, so I’m noting it here for future reference. Even though smbclient -L works just fine, mounting with smbmount or mount -t was just not working. apt-get install cifs-utils mount.cifs -vv //192.168.0.3/backup … Continue reading

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WordPress permalinks in nginx subfolder

Was having some trouble hosting a wordpress site from a subfolder of the domain, ‘/blog’. The permalinks just would not work until I found this solution: I only had to adapt it slightly for my situation: location /blog/ { try_files … Continue reading

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Just another wordpress child theme instruction / white page of death cure

Carelessly following these instructions, I got a WPOD. Turns out the reason was I was copying two sections where I really only needed the second. For the not-so-faint-of-heart; make your child folder, such as ‘twentyten-child’ (2010, old-school, I know!) Then … Continue reading

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