The Story *Someone sent me a Docu-sign document to sign I signed it I got the email back with the PDF I Saved the PDF to my ubuntu machine I tried to open the PDF I just saved, but got the message “The Document contains no pages” message. Couldn’t open. Note: This only happens with docu-sign and not other great…
Category: Ubuntu
Problems renewing Letsencrypt certificate on Nextcloud Snap
Super quick post here to explain my problem and solution for why my Nextcloud Snap Letsencrypt certificate wouldn’t renew on my ubuntu server and how I fixed it. I got a warning that my SSL certificate was expired when I was using my nextcloud client. I read a few blogs on how to renew it and the solution was always…
How to install WordPress on Ubuntu Server
This won’t be my usual detailed blog because there are a lot of blogs out there on the topic. All in all, this blog got me most of the way there. However, it didn’t really go into the details related to the apache conf files so I’ll embellish his blog a bit… ok, the more I look at it, my…
How to Set up your Ubuntu Server with a new or updated SSH key
Backdrop For some reason this particular skill has been on my ‘fear list’ for many years. I had created ssh keys before, I had ssh’d into lots of servers, but one day, I migrated from one laptop to another and tried to ssh into my work computer and… boom: ssh root@123.123.123.123 root@123.123.123.123: Permission denied (publickey) In the past, I just…
How to move Decred from Decredition to Canadian Fiat Bank Account
I was quite happy to learn I had some decred. I recall when I first received it that it was very nice, ahead of its time, and well thought out crypto. The problem was I didn’t know how to trade in crypto, let alone trade in a less-than-top-3 cryptos. Without further adoo, here is what I did and I hope…
How to move Thunderbird emails from one Ubuntu Machine to Another
I thought I had blogged this years ago but apparently I haven’t. It should be part of a backup procedure regardless, but sometimes you just might want to move all your email accounts from one Ubuntu machine to another like I want to today. Heres how you do it. Note: this tutorial assumes that you are putting the .thunderbird directory…
How to Setup FTP to Specific Ubuntu Server Directory
First, I want to give full credits to this blog because this is the brains behind this tutorial. However, because I’m not as smart as the author, I got stuck a few times so this blog is a ‘dumbed down’ version of the same tutorial but with my notes added for the ‘less smart’ 🙂 Please note that if you…
Changing or Fixing the Site URL for SuiteCRM
Recently I moved my SuiteCRM from a slow shared host over to a Digital Ocean droplet to speed things up. It worked very well, by the way. So fast, and probably I save 10 minutes per day just not waiting for server, haha. Anyways, everything went pretty well except one thing: the emails that were sent out from the Workflow…
How to Install Older PHP and Server Software with Digital Ocean
Why? Someone asked me to set up some old proprietary server software stuff that would no longer work in a modern server environment. I figured it might be possible if we match the mysql and php versions and give it a shot. Here is my documented journey in case anyone else needs to / wants to do something similar. Set…
How to Backup your Akaunting Installation
If you are like me, you were attracted to Akaunting accounting software because they are one of the first nice looking and open source accounting softwares around that operate in a similar way to the ‘friendly’ GUI systems like Quickbooks online. I was so upset about not having control of the data and / or price plans that I decided…