Comments for Nick Hammond

Comment on Turning off PHP safe mode with Plesk by Nick

Nick — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:14:16 +0000

Thanks for the update on this Leonard, I haven’t had to use Plesk in a very long time which I’m pretty thankful for.

Comment on Slow alt-tab in Linux Mint(Ubuntu) with Gnome fix by matzlo

matzlo — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:15:15 +0000

I have the same problem here: fedora 14, x64. I do not believe the reason for this is a slow graphic device or a slow computer. I have 8GB Ram and a fast ATI graphic card, i5core intel processor…

It is somewhere in the settings I guess.. but I havn’t found out yet where…

Comment on Turning off PHP safe mode with Plesk by Leonard Challis

Leonard Challis — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:22:12 +0000

PHP 5.4 and onwards will see safe_mode removed forever. I turn it off and just make sure my permissions are set correctly.

Annoyingly, in Plesk 10.4 there has been an update that breaks safe_mode. It remains constantly on, even when turning it off in the subscription plan settings and the domain settings themselves, meaning there’s little you can do apart from wait for a patch. There has already been one, but it doesn’t seem to work.

Comment on Slow alt-tab in Linux Mint(Ubuntu) with Gnome fix by Jai

Jai — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:04:10 +0000

Thanks, this worked for me as well. I am running Linux Mint Debian (64-bit).

Comment on Turning off PHP safe mode with Plesk by Michel Souza

Michel Souza — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:14:59 +0000

Obrigado! Estava com este problema a muito tempo e não achava uma solução, com isso foi muito simples.

Comment on Ruby OpenSSL certificate verify failed by Carl Hörberg

Carl Hörberg — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:34:15 +0000

export SSL_CERT_FILE instead. and also, in your example you have to set port 443 and force ssl..

export SSL_CERT_FILE=/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt

uri = URI.parse(“https://www.google.com/”)
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, 443)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)
response = http.request(request)

Comment on Ruby OpenSSL certificate verify failed by Nick

Nick — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:59:38 +0000

Yeah, most of the articles tell you how to not verify the peer but that’s definitely not what you want. I just updated this article after finding out about the “ca-certificates” package within Ubuntu, makes it much easier and can be included in your chef/puppet recipes.

Comment on Ruby OpenSSL certificate verify failed by The best way to handle OpenSSL certificate verify failed errors

The best way to handle OpenSSL certificate verify failed errors — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:43:10 +0000

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Comment on Ruby OpenSSL certificate verify failed by Nick

Nick — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:46:24 +0000

This works. I’m linking to this article because there are too many posts which provide instructions for turning off verification. They usually provide a disclaimer but it still needs to be addressed if you ever want your code in a production environment.

I downloaded the cert and dropped it in a location. I was using httpadapter and simply specified the file location like this:

adapter = HTTPAdapter::NetHTTPAdapter.new do |http|
http.connection.ca_file = ‘cacert.pem’

Comment on Turning off PHP safe mode with Plesk by Jon

Jon — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:11:06 +0000

Thanks for this. I had been struggling to update wordpress for ages – have been using FTP for about a year now – and today finally decided I had to work out what was wrong.

But … what is php safe mode? By turning “safe” off is there increased risk of something bad happening?

Comment on Quick tip: Save webpage with all images including stylesheet images by Ruben

Ruben — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:25:52 +0000

Thank you – I’d been looking for exactly that trick !

Comment on Cloud based backup choices by melanie

melanie — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 02:34:24 +0000

have you heard about Backupify?