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cpanel email signature software

I’m looking for software to use on my cpanel account to add email signatures on the server level, NOT the webmail level. I want to send emails with a predefined signatures for groups of email addresses. Has anyone found / … Continue reading

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Joomla Spell Check Error: “id”:null,”result”:[],”error”:null

I’m using Joomla 1.5.24 and JCE as editor. I got an error when trying to do a spell check in the editor: Error response: Could not open SSL connection to google.{“id”:null,”result”:[],”error”:null} I solved this by enabling PHP Extension: php_curl Hope … Continue reading

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Grant access to your webserver via a router

I wanted to give access to my web server from outside my network. I already have WAMP server setup on my server. I followed the below information and it worked pefectly…first time! How to set up port forwarding to an … Continue reading

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Change Collation from latin1_swedish_ci to utf8_general_ci using Akeeba backup

An easy way to change the collation if you are cloning your website to another server using Akeeba backup is to use the setting > Fine settings > Force Utf8

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Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 120 seconds exceeded in \tool_phoca_changing_collation\index.php on line 91

If you are using the the phoca collation tool OR get Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 120 seconds exceeded errors when running scripts do the following: Try these different settings in C:\wamp\bin\apache\apachex.x.x\bin\php.ini Find: post_max_size = 8M upload_max_filesize = 2M … Continue reading

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Change mysql database collation from latin1_swedish_ci to utf8_general_ci

If you created your site in with a specific collation language and need to change it  you can use this great tool to change all the fields: Download Phoca Changing Collation Tool Unzip the zip file and copy the folder … Continue reading

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How can I change my MySQL database collation?

Usually when you are using foreign characters or multilingual sites (Joomfish for Joomla) you should change your MySQL collation in order to solve problems with encodings. The most common case is to change your MySQL collation from latin1_swedish_ci to utf8_general_ci. … Continue reading

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Enable mod_rewrite in windows, WAMP, XAMPP

Wamp and XAMPP doesn’t come with default rewrite rule enabled, For enabling the rewrite rules in both of them you need to make changes in httpd.conf so that apache can work with rewrite rules. For enabling the rewrite rules follow … Continue reading

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JCE editor | TinyMCE – fsockopen()…ssl.google.com:443 error

If you get the following error when trying to do a spell check in Joomla article and you are using wamp server. +++ Error response: <br /> <b>Warning</b>: fsockopen() [<a href='function.fsockopen'>function.fsockopen</a>]: unable to connect to ssl://www.google.com:443 (Unable to find the … Continue reading

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WAMP Server – MySQL – Resetting the Root Password (Windows)

1. Log on to your system as Administrator. 2. Click on the Wamp server icon > MySQL > MySQL Console 3. Enter password: LEAVE BLANK AND HIT ENTER 4. mysql> UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD(‘MyNewPass’) WHERE User=’root’; ENTER Query OK 5. … Continue reading

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