This is a simple contact form for your website. I am using it alonside the Flamingo plugin to save messages. If you want to prevent spambots then use a recapcha plugin for it – I am using the Google service which requires a gmail address https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin/create
Really useful service from zeroSSL for up to 3 free certificates – only 90 days validity though. Verify you own the domain and then download and install your free cert
I use cPanel – https://help.zerossl.com/hc/en-us/articles/360060119773
pros- free and takes 5 mins to do, gives your site a browser padlock
cons – i need to do it every 3 months per domain
I had been using letsencrypt which had an autorenew feature with my hosting provider but new hosting doesn’t support this, hence zeroSSL
Just upgraded laptop HDD to a speedier SSD and reinstalled Windows
Some useful things – Rufus
How to get the uptodate Windows version for Rufus to create the bootable USB – here
Massgravel MAS on GitHub
Job done
Great free scanner program https://www.naps2.com/
Simple and worked straight-off with my elderly canoscan Lide100
Such a great plugin to open up gmail when you click on ’email to’ in a program (in my case foxit phantom pdf)
Spent a while trying to sort out SSL certificates for my websites as fed up of chrome reporting ‘not secure’ beside the address bar. (basically changing http to https for the web address) I didn’t know that SSL certificates can cost 40 quid upwards a year.
I’m with Tsohost. I followed a very simple guide here for installing a free SSL certificate that is fine for small sites without any e-commerce like mine – the free certificate is called ‘Let’s encrypt’ and can be installed from your tsohost control panel with a few clicks.
You can also check your site’s status at whynopadlock.com which has a really neat feature in the results bit for ‘force https’ – click on the more info bit of this and it gives you the code to copy/paste into your htaccess file to force all traffic directed at http to https for your site
Great little plugin to search and replace all my http://gcs3.co.uk addresses to https://www.gcs3.co.uk and make the site padlock friendly!
Top tip #1 – don’t turn off DHCP server on your draytek router then reboot it. I couldn’t connect to it and ended up factory resetting it and starting from scratch. All because I have setup a mesh wifi network that runs off a different subnet and I thought having 2 devices controlling DHCP was bad. Also sharp learning curve in setting up double NAT rules on draytek router and tp-link deco mesh.
Top tip #2 – check your router config backups work. I found out the hard way after the draytek factory reset when my recently saved config failed to restore……
Just had a drive die in my microserver and wasn’t sure which one it was
This was helpful! Drivebay numbering
Found a way to clear the extraction path history in winrar that had screwed up a little after i changed some drive mappings
Run the registry editor (start | run program | regedit) and browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ WinRAR \ DialogEditHistory \ ExtrPath. Clear all the entries in here.
worked a treat