(Didn’t keep this up, I’m afraid. Old news. Nothing to see here.) Blogging about geeking is going to be less frequent, as I devote my extra-curricular geeking to Linux Learners NorthWest or Linux Learners Lancs, which ever name I settle on. The first meet will be two weeks on Wednesday, 11th October 2017. I’m working on the website and first meet content this weekend.
I like how Linux Learners Lancs rolls along the lips à la alliteration of ells. And it abbreviates to LLL too. Northwest is a little more inclusive for Cheshire, Merseyside and Greater Manchester but people should only feel restricted by how fay they will travel. I always thought of Yorkshire as being an eastern collection of counties, but did you know that the most western part of North Yorkshire is as far west as the most western part of Blackburn with Darwen? And only ten miles from Morecambe Bay?
If I go for Linux Learners NorthWest, I’d need to register another domain, for the cost of a take-away pizza.
So anyway, open to all 😃. Come from Windermere, Sheffield or Wrexham if you can be bothered!
Last night I upgraded WordPress. It tried to upgrade automatically from 4.5.1 to 4.5.2 (I think they) but failed because my permission settings were too tight. I like how it tells you which files it couldn’t change during the failed upgrade, so you can correct them. One thing that flummoxed me briefly was WordPress asking for ftp settings on one of them and not on others (I run three presently, but only this one with any real content as yet). The reason for this was, my WordPress config file didn’t have a particular command set so it assumed my WordPress files and my Operating System were in different locations. Hence, WordPress was configured to be updated by ftp, or some such nonsense. I have ftp disabled on my server anyway by having never opened the ports. So far, it has only ever needed to fetch files by http, and if necessary, I can SSH files up to it, or even go via NextCloud.
Back-ups were made by means of Amazon’s virtual server system. A single snapshot was taken of the OS partition (I have three partitions, OS with home folder and websites, NextCloud data and swap).