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Setting up noip.com Dynamic DNS hostnames on Oracle Free Tier
This blog post shows how to set up the Dynamic Update Client (DUC) for noip.com addresses. This allows access to (free) domains handled by noip.com, such as the one used by this website. This is useful if you don’t want to buy a domain name from a domain name registrar. Also, if you have several…
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Setting up development tools on Oracle Free Tier
This blog post shows how to set up the development tools, such as make and gcc on Ubuntu 20.04, hosted on the Oracle Free Tier cloud platform. This needs to be done if you are installing software from source, or want to develop your own code in, for example, C. Start by making sure that…
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Testing permalinks after changing style
As I’m quite new to WordPress, I wasn’t very clear on what happens if you change the permalink style. I started out using day+month+year+topic_title, but wondered if changing to just topic_title would break anything. So, here’s a link to my first blog post: See: WordPress fix-up : rest API gives 404 Now, if I publish…
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WordPress fix-up : rest API gives 404
This showed up in WordPress’s Dashboard : Site Health Status. The actual message was along the lines of “When testing the REST API, an unexpected result was returned”. I Googled this together with “Ubuntu 20.04”, and found the following useful info: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49858884/wordpress-rest-api-returning-404 Changing /etc/apache2/apache2.conf from: <Directory /var/www/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Require all granted…
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