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How to install ioncube loader on Ubuntu in one line of code

To install ioncube loader on Ubuntu, AS ROOT paste this line: cd /usr/local && wget http://downloads2.ioncube.com/loader_downloads/ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz && tar xzf ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz && echo “zend_extension=/usr/local/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.3.so” | sudo tee /etc/php5/conf.d/ioncube.ini If you are using nginx, that would be: cd /usr/local && wget http://downloads2.ioncube.com/loader_downloads/ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz && tar xzf ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz && echo “zend_extension=/usr/local/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.3.so” | sudo tee /etc/php5/fpm/conf.d/ioncube.ini Please note that if …

Chromium starts about:blank tabs on typing into dashboard in Ubuntu

This is a strange and inexplicable error. Typing into the Ubuntu dashboard spawns new tabs in Chromium. This happens even if Chromium is not running it simply launches and spawns one or more tabs. Sometimes this also happened when software updater started. I had Chromium as the default browser earlier and made Firefox the default …

Nginx: upstream timed out (110: Connection timed out)

Error 110: Connection timed out while reading response header from upstream Sometimes a Nginx web server seems to load pages with php code with a lot of xml parsing really slowly. Often it doesn’t load or connection times out. This will be seen more on pages where the php code parses through large xml files …

Fix a broken mysql

If your mysql seems broken and giving errors like: # service mysql start start: Job failed to start or ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock’ (2) Or if you try to recreate databases with mysqlinstalldb: … … ERROR: 1 Can’t create/write to file ‘./mysql/db.frm’ (Errcode: 13) 041226 xx:xx:xx /usr/libexec/mysqld: …

How to retrieve your passwords saved in Google Chrome or Chromium on ubuntu linux

This post explains how you can export unencrypted, readable, usable passwords saved in Google Chrome as a spreadsheet table.

Update/install fail: Server cannot access software repositories

If you are trying to install something and the server waits forever after you answer yes to the update and it accesses the software repository… something like… apt-get update … details of packages … Need to get 83.7 MB of archives. After this operation, 237 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to …

bash: add-apt-repository: command not found

If you are trying to add a ppa repository and get the following error bash: add-apt-repository: command not found You need to install python-software-properties, like so apt-get install python-software-properties If you have python-software-properties installed and are still getting this error, there is some problem with the package. Uninstall and reinstall it. apt-get remove python-software-properties –purge …

Installing UFW – Uncomplicated Firewall on Ubuntu 12.04

If you are one of those nerdy types and use iptables, ignore this. If you are like the rest of us Ubuntu users (nerdy in denial), UFW (Uncomplicated Firewall) provides a handy tool to configure your firewall. Here’s how to install. As root, type: apt-get install ufw If this can’t find the package, run apt-get …

Need to install jpegtran?

If you are optimizing your blog/site, you may end up needing a package for optimizing images called jpegtran It is a part of another package called libjpeg-progs To install, simply install the package, like so apt-get install libjpeg-progs Done. Link to this post!