If you are receiving the following error after the upgrade:
Then you must do the following
sudo apt remove proftpd*
sudo apt purge proftpd*
Now you can run updates normally
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
and you will not see the error anymore
And with that, you are welcome
If your wordpress is asking for an FTP user to install plugins or themes, you have a permissions error
The specific error is as follows:
“To perform the requested action, WordPress needs to access your web server. Please enter your FTP credentials to proceed. If you do not remember your credentials, you should contact your web host.”
SSH into the server
View the .conf file located in the sites-available folder
find the SUSEXEC id numbers
then cat /etc/passwd
This will show you all the usernames
Find the SUSEXEC id number (This will be your apache user)
Then Type:
sudo chown -R apacheuserhere:apacheuserhere /home/name/public_html/
If you just setup your LG TV as a monitor, you will notice the edges are cut off. Here is how to fix it
Use the LG TV Remote
Select Settings button on the Remote
Select ALL Settings
Click Picture
Click Aspect Ration Settings
Set JUST SCAN to On
Now it will work fine!
Quick how-to run and upgrade from the command line
Do not SSH into the server. Use KVM or a local connection to the server
Login
sudo bash
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
do-release-upgrade
The server will upgrade to the latest version
Quick How-To for getting composer 2 to work since composer 1 has been deprecated
Login to a terminal
sudo bash
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt install php-cli unzip
exit
cd ~
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer -o /tmp/composer-setup.php
HASH=`curl -sS https://composer.github.io/installer.sig`
echo hash
php -r “if (hash_file(‘SHA384’, ‘/tmp/composer-setup.php’) === ‘$HASH’) { echo ‘Installer verified’; } else { echo ‘Installer corrupt’; unlink(‘composer-setup.php’); } echo PHP_EOL;”
Installer will be verified
sudo php /tmp/composer-setup.php –install-dir=/usr/local/bin –filename=composer
Composer will download and install
Then Type:
composer
You should see a Composer info screen
Quick how-to on the way I upgraded mautic, since upgrading through the web breaks my installations every time.
Login into your Virtualmin
Backup all of your virtual servers
Download the backups to your pc
Open Putty
SSH to Server
sudo su –
cd to your mautic directory (/home/user/html)
php bin/console mautic:update:find
php bin/console mautic:update:apply
php bin/console mautic:update:apply –finish
Open your mautic installation, refresh the web page, check the bottom right, and you will see the latest version. In my case it is 4.4.8
Here is a quick and easy way to view all the contacts in a segment. Lets use the Bounced Emails segment.
Navigate to Contacts
In the filter box at the top, write:
segment:bounced-emails
Press Enter
All of your bounced emails will show. Now you can select the person, and Add them to another segment, or remove them completely from a segment.
Mautic has a feature where not only is a bounced email added to the bounced-emails segment, it also has a Bounced Flag, that has to be reset for you to email a user again. You can remove it one by one for each user, however if you have hundreds of thousands of users, you will need a more efficient way.
Here is that way
Log into your Mautic Server
Log into your Webmin Server
Click Servers
Click MariaDB Database Server
Select the Database
Click the Execute SQL button at the bottom
Execute:DELETE FROM lead_donotcontact WHERE reason = 2
The flag will be reset
Back in Mautic..
Go into Contacts
In the Filter box enter in:
segment:bounced-emails
Press Enter
Select All contacts and remove them from the segment (DO NOT DELETE THEM)
and you can now email them again….
Quick How-To for updating pihole on Ubuntu
Open a terminal
Type:
sudo apt-get update
Enter in your password
Type
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Enter in your password
Type
pihole -up
Enter in your password
Pihole updates
That is it!
For those of you who need to get a positive reputation on your domain for email campaigns, you first need to warm up the domain. Here is a simple power automate flow to assist with the task.
Login into Office.com
Click on the Menu to the Top Left of the screen
Select Power Automate
Click My Flows
Click +New Flow
Select Scheduled Cloud Flow
Give it a Name, Start Date, and Interval on how often you want it to run
Click Next
Click + Next Step
Type in mail and press Enter
Select Send EMAIL V3
Put in the FROM address of a user for the new domain you want to send email to
ex: user@tacticalware.com
Enter in a To Address for another email you own, that is off domain from the domain you are warming up.
ex: tacticalwarexyz123@gmail.com
Enter in a Subject
Add some Text to the Body
Click Save
Test your Flow, and email should go though now.
Next you will want to setup an auto reply on the receiving email address, and also setup a power automate flow from the email domain so you can generate content coming out of it.
