XPC Design

Moved your Magento install, admin section broken

Ryan — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 08:06:07 +0000

If you’ve moved your Magento install to another folder and assume you’ve covered all your bases, but for some reason the admin section just won’t work, then I have a fix for you. Specifically if you can log into the admin section, but once you click on any link it gives you an error.

My first suggestion would be to enable error logs first to see what the error is. Usually this can be done by going to the /errors folder and renaming local.xml.sample to local.xml. Make sure you return it to its original state when you’re done due to security reasons. The error page should give a full print out of what’s wrong.

If you see “Could not determine temp directory, please specify a cache_dir manually”

Find and edit this file: /lib/Zend/Cache/Backend/File.php
Find the ‘cache_dir’ setting.
Modify it so it looks like: ‘cache_dir’ => ‘var/tmp’,

Credit to ScreencastWorld for pointing me in the right direction.

Make More Room in Google Calendar for Automatically Updating iCal Feeds

Ryan — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 18:32:06 +0000

Go to your calendar settings and set your 4 day custom calendar to either 2 or 3 weeks depending on how much space you need per day. That calendar will morph into the style of the monthly calendar, just with more space for events.

Then you can use awesome custom iCal feeds that automatically update, like:

Movies & TV:

DVD Movies
Blu-ray Movies
Custom TV Show Schedule This one is a bit more difficult and requires you to host a php script on a web server (which I can provide through my hosting company), but it’s my favorite and the single most useful thing I’ve ever added to my Google Calendar (I used to track TV shows manually before).

Games:

Music:

If you’re a last.fm user, they have iCal links for recommended concerts and events in your area, but their new album releases section only has an RSS feed.

Note: Google already has sports teams (with live score updates), holidays, birthdays, etc. built right in to the “Add interesting calendars” option.

Magento Downloader – No Extensions Listed

Ryan — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:40:45 +0000

If you can’t see any packages or extensions listed in the Magento Connect Manager (Downloader), I might just have the fix for you. First thing I noticed was we didnt have pear installed (use this script to make sure your server is compatible). After I made sure the server was compatible, the extensions still weren’t listing. I found on this thread that you can enter the following:

magento-core/Mage_All_Latest

…into the “Paste extension key to install:” box on the Downloader. It will populate the list.

DD-WRT TX Errors – 0% 0 OK

Ryan — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:24:14 +0000

Wireless – Wireless Security: Set to “disable” (Wifi signal will now be visible)
Wireless – Basic Settings: Set “Wireless Mode” to “Client Bridge”. Save, then Apply. (Your internet will go down, manually load your routers address or you will just wait forever.)
Wireless – Wireless Security: Set to “WPA2″ or whatever you had before (Wifi signal should still be visible)

Note: This problem returned a few days later, might be best to update the router if you have this problem.

Another note: This solution didn’t seem to help me the second time, but I set encryption to “WPA2 Personal – Mixed” and it came back to life.

The network path was not found

Ryan — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:14:38 +0000

The following Windows 7 error kept me from accessing shares on the network.

0×80070035
The network path was not found

Before I started:

I left the homegroup I was in

My solution (applies to both computers on the network):

Enable the Windows Firewall service (the firewall itself doesn’t have to be on.)
Start the Homegroup Listener service if it was off. (Note: Homegroup Listener fails to start if the Windows Firewall service is not running and gives the following error: The HomeGroup Listener service terminated with service-specific error %%-2147023143.)
If the Homegroup Listener service was already on, do the safe thing and restart the computer. (I did.)
Join the homegroup after rebooting. I still received the initial error message on the windows share, not until I joined the homegroup did it actually start working.

Hope that solved the problem for you.

Error Starting HomeGroup Listener

Ryan — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:54:23 +0000

In Windows 7, if you get the following error:

The HomeGroup Listener service terminated with service-specific error %%-2147023143.

You must have the Windows Firewall service disabled. Start it up and then HomeGroup Listener should start.

Nagios SSL/Connection Issue Solved

Ryan — Wed, 26 May 2010 19:33:31 +0000

On /etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg, (remote server) comment out the following line:

#allowed_hosts=

They say it ignores this config line if you use xinet.d, but they are totally wrong. I used to get the “Host is not allowed to talk to us!” error because of this.

The command I used to test the connection (on the host server) is:

/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nrpe -H

Duke Nukem 3D HRP Multiplayer

Ryan — Thu, 20 May 2010 19:00:33 +0000

Download Duke Nukem 3D and install it.
Download Duke HRP and install it to the Duke3D directory.
Download YANG.
Run YANG.
On the Source Ports config screen of YANG – Tell it where where eDuke3D.exe is in that Duke3D directory.
On the Source Ports config screen of YANG – Give it the same directory as above for the TC/Mods path below.
Create a room in YANG, on the right select “game.con” and click “use” so it moves to the right. This enables HRP to work.

Stop Windows Media Player from Indexing in the Background

Ryan — Fri, 14 May 2010 00:32:12 +0000

Set all .wmdb files to “Read Only” in this folder: C:\Users\[yourname]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Media Player

My New iPhone Uncommon Case

Ryan — Fri, 07 May 2010 22:52:54 +0000

My new Uncommon case arrived, with custom printed graphics: