Oct 12, 2016WordPress, Nginx, virtual robots.txt and 404While working on my new site for an online printing service I encountered a strange problem. I was wondering about the Google Search Console complaining that the robots.txt is throwing a 404. But I could see the correct content in the browser! The following was kind of unexpected. While setting…Lemp2 min readLemp2 min read
Aug 3, 2016WordPress, HTTP Error, 413 Request Entity Too LargeAfter moving my WordPress site from a LAMP to a LEMP stack (replacing Apache with Nginx), I wanted to upload some new images — but I couldn’t. I either got a “HTTP Error” or “413 Request Entity Too Large”. So I started my research. Some minutes later I stumbled upon a little older blog post of Dave Perrett, which suggests increasing the max allowed body size. In fact my images were a little bigger than small.Lamp1 min readLamp1 min read
Jul 8, 2016What is the Chrome OS Image loader extension?Currently I’m uploading about 16GB of images into my Google Drive account. At first I tried to copy them into my local drive folder in order to let the Files.app synchronize everything automatically. Only to discover that the process takes decades to finish and is even having problems while uploading…Chrome OS2 min readChrome OS2 min read
Jun 1, 20168 simple rules for effective meetingsAre you struggling from ineffective, time-robbing and never-ending meetings? Then you should try these 8 simple rules for effective meetings: Use a calendar app. This helps planning and not forgetting it. Have a simple and constructive agenda. Send invitations including the agenda. …Advice2 min readAdvice2 min read
Jun 1, 2016Please know how your business performsSay you are a provider/creator in the business-to-business (B2B) area . One day a potential client comes along. The first conversations went all pretty nice and cheerful. But at some point you notice the client is not following your conversation along, instead asking for general, risky recommendations — which he…Advice1 min readAdvice1 min read
Dec 16, 2015Moving from SourceForge to GitHubAfter feeling the decline of SourceForge for some time now and kind of naturally having nearly all of my repositories on GitHub, I decided to finally move my older repositories. Unfortunately GitHub’s importer does not support CVS. Here’s how I managed it anyway. This is in no way a beginners…C2 min readC2 min read
Nov 25, 2015Access to the script ‘xxx’ has been denied (see security.limit_extensions)I was using my project framework for months now. After becoming a freelancer again I began setting up my infrastructure via cloud services and VMs at Digital Ocean. Yesterday I wanted to install my project framework on a VM at DO. Basically everything went fine — until I tried to…Fastcgi1 min readFastcgi1 min read
