I recently got the following error while uploading media to my wordpress site: Unable to create directory uploads/2016/06. Is its parent directory writable by the server? Here are the steps to fix the issue: Possible Issue 1: Incorrect Directory pointed to in the settings: Open your WordPress Admin page (this is usually at /wp-admin) Hover […]
If you regularly ssh to same system, ssh-copy-id allows you to login to the system directly without having to type the password each time. ssh-copy-id is a small script which copies your ssh public-key to a remote host. It appends the key to your remote authorized_keys enabling you to login without having to type your […]
If your system regularly does ubuntu check disk or scan disks on boot up and if it often finds errors during the check, its highly possible that you have bad sectors on your hard disk. In such cases its highly recommended to do a disk check to detect if you have bad sectors on the […]
Here is a quick cheat-sheet on How To Compress files in Linux & Unix Zip zip archive file1 file2 file3 Compresses file1 file2 file3 into an achive with filename archive.zip zip archive * Compresses all files in the current directory into an achive with filename archive.zip zip -r archive dir Compresses the directory dir(and its […]
Sometimes when websites are updated,they tend to change the way they manage cookies. What happens then is that there is a small possibility of certain parts of the website not functioning as the old cookies remain in the browser. In those cases the best approach is to remove the errant cookie and let the website […]