It has long been a popular attack strategy to target web clients by embedding malicious code with legitimate web content in iframes and standard web frames. This can occur when the attacker attracts the victim to a malicious website by exploiting frames to integrate the desired content from the legitimate…
We’ve been running MySQL on our servers for years, this was a first for us. We ran into this issue recently where migrating a database from one server to another generated the following error on the target box: At some point, a table was created with the incorrect collation. To…
We recently setup a new installation of Pop OS (Version 21.10), and were in the middle of setting up remote desktop sharing with VNC when we ran into a snag. We were prompted by this error: VNC is great and we’ve been using it for years to remote into our…
We were in the process of upgrading an old server from NGINX version 1.16 to the latest and got a slew of errors: This issue occured because when Nginx was updated, it did not update it’s modules along side it. You will need to manually update these modules to get…
If you get this error when trying to connect to a remote MariaDB or MySQL server then don’t fret. The MySQL log file doesn’t provide any help either, we had the following in ours: The solution to the problem is very simply, you need to grant access to the IP…
We got this error on a fresh installation of CentOS when trying to convert webpages to pdf’s using wkhtmltopdf: We’re getting this error because we do not have any sort of GUI environment installed (e.g. GNOME, KDE). To fix this we could go one of two ways, the first would…
We prematurely killed a yum process after which we started getting this error: The fix is fairly straight forward, you need to move or remove the db files for yum and run yum again. To do this, type the following at the terminal: Then run the following: Try running your…
We recently moved a wordpress site to a new server where certain pages would throw this error. Since this was a cPanel account we started looking at the error logs in public_html, the logs folder on the main but we couldn’t find any mention of this error there. The only…
We recently needed to exclude the kernel from being updated on a VPS server. While this may not sound or seem ideal but there are certain scenarios where you don’t want to update the kernel every time you update packages on your server. You’re standard yum update return something like…
We recently saw this error on a newly migrated site, we were sure we had the mysql extension loaded correctly as a bunch of other wordpress sites were using the same PHP version without issue. We started by downgrading the PHP version from 7.3 to something old we knew would…
