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FTP Connection Information after Installation in Cygwin

Alternatives to Splunk?

Note : This is all regarding Linux and free software, as that’s what I mostly use, but you should be fine with a syslog client on Windows to send the logs to a Linux syslog server. Logging to an SQL server: With only ~30 machines, you should be fine with pretty much any centralised syslog-alike … Read more

WordPress on XAMPP over my home network [closed]

It’s not clear what “cannot access WordPress from [other Win7 machine on network]” actually means. I have this same setup and it works fine. Be sure to check these things: Do you have Apache and MySQL services running? Check XAMPP Control Panel Can your other Win7 machine access the folder WP is in? ie. 192.168.3.3/dir-wp-is-in/ … Read more

What is the Windows equivalent of Unix “whoami” command?

Since Windows 2000, the whoami command has been part of the standard command line (thanks to pk for clearing that up in comments!). You can do this: Open a command prompt and type “set” then hit enter. This shows active environment variables. Current logged on username is stored in the USERNAME env variable and your … Read more

Wp_mail() function not working in Windows and MAC OS

My usual solution for this is a plugin called WP Mail SMTP. The problem with this is that the plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. This means that issues with more recent versions of WordPress (although at present that shouldn’t be the case) and also means you are likely on your own … Read more

Newbie: Multiple WP sites on Windwos 2012 IIS

Have you look at WordPress Multisites? It should run if your current site is already running on ASP http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network https://premium.wpmudev.org/

How do you free up a port being held open by dead process?

I know this is an old thread, but in case anyone else is having the same issue, I had… What may be happening is that your process had a TCP port open when it crashed or otherwise exited without explicitly closing it. Normally the OS cleans up these sorts of things, but only when the … Read more

swap partition vs file for performance?

On hard disks, throughput and seeking is often faster towards the beginning of the disk, because that data is stored closer to the outer area of the disk, which has more sectors per cylinder. Thus, creating the swap at the beginning of the disk might improve performance. For a 2.6 Linux kernel, there is no … Read more

How to determine the hostname from an IP address in a Windows network?

If you want to determine the name of a Windows machine without DNS, you should try Nbtstat. But that will only work on Windows: For example, NBTSTAT -A 10.10.10.10 On Linux, you should try nmblookup that does nearly the same.

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