If you don’t login regularly to your Joomla administrator site, you may one day forget what your password is. If this unfortunate event does happen, its very easy to recover it if you have access to the database that your web site uses. Open your database and find the...
When I upgraded to Windows 8 from Windows XP, everything worked well except Microsoft Outlook. It required me to activate its license and failed on every attempt I made at this. This may be due to it trying to write data to a folder that Windows 8’s enhanced...
The following code will restore a database from a backup file in MS SQL Server. Normally you would use Management Studio to do this, but this might fail if the database needs to be in single user mode to restore. The code below will restore the database as a single...
When you browse to a folder shared on a Windows machine on a network, you may need permissions to access it. A dialog box appears and request a username and password. If you enter one that doesn’t work, you won’t get the chance to change it the next time you try...
I use the Remote System Explorer in Eclipse for editing PHP web sites on other networks, and I occasionally run into the problem when an old page gets loaded instead of the actual, current page on the site. The problem is that the old file is being cached somewhere on...
At various times, you will need to manually start and stop Apache. This could be due to making changes in the httpd.conf file which requires a restart, or the web server could be experiencing problems. You can perform these commands in a Linux terminal with httpd. To...
