For PHP 5.6 Make a backup copy of your current php.ini. Open a terminal and enter the following. The php.ini-development file for PHP 5.6 on Ubuntu 16.04 is located in First, check to make sure that the php.ini-development file is at this location. Open the file: Replace gedit above with your text editor. For example, … Read more →
This is a quick reference cheat sheet for Linux commands to manage files on the command line. Count the files (including directories) in a directory. This gives you the total number of files. Count the files in a directory, per each type of extension. This will tell you how many of each type of file … Read more →
Georgia Alternative Font Family For UbuntuIf you use the Georgia font on your web pages, you probably set a CSS font family similar to this: The Georgia font is not included in Ubuntu or other Linux systems. So, visitors to your website that are on Ubuntu or Linux, instead of seeing your attractive Georgia font, will see a boring serif … Read more →
These are the terminal commands to reset your MySQL password for your “root” user. This is useful if you forgot your MySQL password on your local LAMP server. This is a fix for errors like these: ERROR 1045: Access denied for user: ‘root@localhost’ (Using password: NO) ERROR 1045: Access denied for user: ‘root@localhost’ (Using password: … Read more →
When you want to completely remove MySQL 5.5 from your local Ubuntu LAMP server, you can use these terminal commands:
These are my favorite Sublime Text 3 shortcuts, as well as Sublime SFTP shortcuts. These work on Ubuntu/Linux. Selecting Select the entire current line: Ctrl + L Select everything inside the current HTML tag: CTRL + SHIFT + A Select word – Repeat select others occurrences: Ctrl + D Split selection into lines: Ctrl + … Read more →
To check if the PHP exec() function is working on your local LAMP server, paste this in the terminal: Then, navigate in your browser to your http://localhost/whomi.php. You should see “whoim = ” and the user who executed the script. If you see this, then the PHP exec() function is working. If you don’t see … Read more →
This permission scheme will avoid the “Unable to save – Permission denied – File is Read only” error when you try to save a file in your local /var/www/html/ directory. This will let you edit “Read only” files by adding you to the www-data group and granting the group permission to write to the files. … Read more →
Set the permissions for a file or directory by using the chmod command. Each row has 2 examples, one for setting that permission for a file, and one for a directory named ‘dir’. This works in any linux distro, such as Ubuntu, etc. Permission Command Examples Description rwx rwx rwx chmod 777 filenamechmod -R 777 … Read more →
You can’t get your screen brightness keys to work on your Sony Vaio (or other computer) with Ubuntu. You may have tried the “Brightness Controller” package only to find that it does not work on your machine. You may be frustrated that the only way for you to adjust your screen brightness is on the … Read more →