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Install CutyCapt – CentOS 7.2

CutyCapt is a CLI utility to capture Webkit renderings of a webpage and the resulting image can be stored in a plethora of formats. To install, first install the dependencies #For sanity sake install epel-release yum install epel-release #On to…

Install ASpell CentOS 7.2

ASpell is a open source spell checker which is great at suggesting suitable replacements for misspelt word. To install the base library issue the following command at shell: yum install aspell Now you need to install the dictionary, you need…

Enable General Log on Mariadb 10.1

The general log comes in handy when you want to see each and every single task the mysql / mariadb server performs. Setting this up is pretty straight forward. Edit the mariadb config file at  and add the following lines…

Random errors: client denied by server configuration

So this error, this little error, was the bane of existence for 3 whole days. client denied by server configuration: , referer: Developers at the company started complaining of getting 403 Forbidden errors, at first I thought it was modsecurity,…

connect: Network is unreachable

This was a mighty screw up, I don’t exactly remember how I did this, but I messed with the routing table and deleted the default gateway entry. So whenever I tried to ping a IP I’d get the following: [root@localhost…

Retrieve Mysql command history

I have a bad habit of making notes on notepad++ and not saving those notes, so any new command or old command that I modify goes there. I recently found myself in dire need of a couple of commands I…

Enable Event MPM – Apache 2.4

Event MPM is brand new, released with Apache 2.4 and works similarly as Worker MPM when it comes to processes and threads. The difference here is that Event MPM will dedicated a thread to a request and not the whole…