Sumit Gupta

Category: Server Configuration

  • 1and1.com hosting – WordPress upgrade failure

    Today I was upgrading one of my client’s wordpress installation, but it was failing, later I found in some forum that this failure is because 1and1.com hosting doesn’t have PHP enable by default and that we need to map php5 compiler properly. For this all you need to do is just add AddType x-mapp-php5 .php…

  • Internet Auto Dialer: PPPoE Dialer

    I need to configure a autodialer for windows 2008 server. Although the PPPoE dialer within windows have “dial on line drop” but for some unknown reason that function wasn’t working for my cause. Also, if a User through which I start/dial connect gets logout the connection gets disconnect. Someone suggest to use 3rd party dialer,…

  • ImageMagic on Rackspace Cloud server (linux)

    Just a reminder for myself ,Imagemagic is available on Rackspace cloud at following name/location /usr/bin/mogrify I have use it in one of my poject, and works great for image resizing better than GD in PHP.

  • Finally wordpress permalinks works

    After a long time, finally Microsoft add the ability to work with URL Rewriting in IIS, finally Godaddy start supporting it with their hosting, and finally I try the service to found it working first shot. You will find detail guides at http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/466/enabling-pretty-permalinks-in-wordpress/   (IIS official article) http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks (WordPress official Article) My unofficial web.config content…

  • MySQL “Server has gone away” error

    A useful like to know the reason of “Server has gone away” error of MySQL. http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/mysql-tip-mysql-server-has-gone-away-or-lost-connection-to-server-during-query-fix/ It has very good information on why it happens, so you can check and correct the error.

  • Subnet Mask Calculator

    Every need to calculate subnet mask, you will need this site if you are system administrator: http://www.subnet-calculator.com Calculate the subnet mask with ease.

  • Good Password

    Ever since I got company server to manage and create user account, email account. I found it very hard to do so as thinking a new password is not that easy. But my quest end when I landed on http://www.goodpassword.com, where they generate password for us and that too for free. Give it a try…