Well it pains me both financially and philosophically to have to start writing this blog but I need to do it so that someone else doesn’t end up in my situation. I made the choice to leave Quickbooks about 1 year ago today to https://akaunting.com/ . It is a very nice GUI and to be honest, it’s amazing… except for…
Tag: Ubuntu
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 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…
How to Overcome a Prestashop 500 Error on Front End
The Background I upgraded my ubuntu server last week and after I did so, the Prestashop front end went down – but not the back end! Everything seemed fine because no one was checking the front end so after someone changed something in the back and refreshed the front they thought they had killed the site (and so did I!).…
How to Backup your Prestashop Shop and Database on Ubuntu Server
Frankly the prestashop documentation on this is pretty good. This whole process is much like backing up any other server with ubuntu where you need to back up two things: your site files your database If you followed my how to install prestashop on ubuntu server blog then this is a similar setup. If this isn’t your setup, consider a…