For some reason, WordPress site is hosted on an internal local network but also require WAN access at the same time, “Port Forwarding” on the main router can be enable to achieve the requirements. There are benefits such as setting up a physical site for testing or migration without touching the live WordPress server. Setting […]
Synology NAS has many things we can do with it, one is installing a WordPress site using the Web Station package. But it only lets us install one instance of WordPress. You can manually setup additional wordpress instance via WordPress.org download or keep a fresh copy of “wordpress” folder. This was done under DSM 6.2.4-25556. For […]
Lots of people would like to host a website, but the monthly costs associated with web hosting isn’t always ideal. While it’s a good idea to scale your website to match the daily traffic it receives, it’s sometimes easier to host the website out of your house. This avoids monthly charges and allows you to […]
Got myself the Panasonic Lumix DC-LX100 II recently. Exceptional image quality, compact design, and all the bells and whistles a proper camera geek would drool over—4/3″ 17MP sensor, 4K video, a fancy Leica lens, full manual controls, EVF, touchscreen, WiFi, and probably a secret button that launches a satellite. Me? I set it to AF, […]
Benefits of Let’s Encrypt certificates are that they are automated, short lifetimes (90 days) and that they are completely FREE! Prerequisites before starting A domain name of your own, such as mydomain.com. DDNS service configured. Use Synology DDNS or DDNS on your router. Create a CNAME DNS record with your (mydomain.com) registrar to forward requests […]
Web Station allows Synology NAS to host up a dynamic, database-driven website or numerous 3rd-party web applications with MySQL and PHP technologies, such as Content Management, Customer Relationship Management and e-Commerce system. You can create a website with web pages on Synology NAS and the default shared folder “web” is provided by Web Station, allowing […]
Brompton Right Shifter Fix (Without Butchering the Housing) I recently got my brand new Brompton bike, and right out of the box, I ran into an issue with the right shifter. Shifting from gear 1 to 2 required pushing the lever way past the limiter just to get it to engage. As someone new to […]
In terminal command, “sudo sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1” To read the current value:“sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding” To set the value:“sudo sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding=1” To set it on boot, create the file“/private/etc/sysctl.conf” with contents “net.inet.ip.forwarding=1”
The ‘Open With’ feature in right-click menu allows us to open a specific file with applications other than the one associated with the document type. Normally it will display all compatible apps to open a specific file but sometimes, it will display more than one selection for the same app in the ‘Open With’ menu. […]
Turns out, without sudo it is even simpler. Checking a files signature is expensive, and checking the signature of a large application that contains very many files is even more expensive. Which is why MacOS is marking files as to-be-checked on download, and then checking the file once when executing them for the first time. Unmarking the […]
Mac’s DNS cache isn’t something you need to worry about. It works quietly in the background, sending you to the right websites when you ask for them. But if it gets corrupted, then you can run into problems loading sites, with 404 errors being common. Clear your Mac’s DNS cache with the following command In […]
Sometimes, it can be useful to prevent a given volume from mounting at boot. You might want to hide an old OS version from Spotlight corruption. You just might not want to clutter your desktop. Note: Encrypted disks are unlocked before the fstab file is read. In order for this procedure to work with an […]
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