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sign_and_send_pubkey: no mutual signature supported

4 December 2022·1 min read

Issue Today i was not able to SSH to one of my CentOS7 Server. I have got the below error on SSH. Also, tried to SSH to couple of other servers launched during that time and received the same error....

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AWS

How to extend the Linux file system after increasing the EBS volume on the EC2 instance?

12 September 2021·3 min read
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DevOps

How to install node.js on User Level – CentOS RHEL Amazon Linux

14 August 2021·1 min read

This article explains how you can install node package on user-level without having root access. This method was tested on CentOS 7 and Amazon Linux 2. However, this method should work on any Linux...

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CentOS

CentOS 6 – YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not using ftp, http[s] or file.

8 August 2021·1 min read

Hello folks… Today I was trying to install a package on an old CentOS 6 server and got the below error. Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, security Setting up Install Process Determining fastest...

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CentOS

phpmyadmin gives Function get_magic_quotes_gpc() is deprecated

29 March 2021·1 min read

Hello Folks, Today I was installing PHPMyAdmin and I was getting the below error while accessing http://IP/phpmyadmin page. The error was repeating even after logging in. I have gone through the...

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AWS

MySQL – How to get size of MySQL database and table size ?

27 December 2020·1 min read

Hello, Today I was trying to get the database size on one of the MySQL / MariaDB servers. I found the below MySQL queries which can do the job. You can use the same approach as Amazon RDS or Azure...

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AWS

How to enable htpasswd Apache Basic Authentication via AWS cloudfront

29 October 2020·1 min read

Issue: Apache Basic htpasswd authentication not working via AWS CloudFront. Overview We had a website that was only allowed to access via basic password authentication as it was in the development...

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Reviews

Best Redmine Hosting Service Provider in 2025

26 April 2020·2 min read

Today one of my friends was asking me for the best Redmine hoisting solution. He also wants to install some free plugin available to give it a boost. As usual, I have gone for a google search and...

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macOS

How to run Multiple Dropbox on a macOS and start it on login

2 April 2020·1 min read

Today I was having the challenge to run multiple Dropbox to run on my mac. So, let us see how we can run a second dropbox on your mac and start on login Create Dropbox2 Launcher App Create a folder...

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DevOps

How to run Django On a subpath – DevOps

23 June 2019·1 min read

Today, we were trying to run the Django application on a subpath say /backend/ . We were able to run it but some URL redirection from the application was still pointing it to the / URL instead of...

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RHEL

How to Install RHEL 8 | RHEL latest Version | RHEL 8 Hello World

16 May 2019·1 min read

RHEL was recently released, it has a lot of new features and cockpit software for managing the OS is coming by default with the Operating System. To download RHEL, you need a Red Hat login and valid...

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SysAdmin

How to migrate a KVM / Virtualbox VM to VMware

27 October 2018·2 min readArchive

Today, we had to migrate a virtialbox VM to VMware, and i had to deal with a lot of issues. Hence i thought about documenting it here since it may help someone. Convert QCOW2 to VMDK If you are...

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