February 2020

MySQL – ERROR 1819 (HY000): Your password does not satisfy the current policy requirements

Posted on February 29, 2020April 28, 2022 by Tony

If you run into this error it’s a strong indicator that the Password Validation Plugin is installed.

The quick and dirty way to fix this is to uninstall the plugin. You will need to be the root user in the database.

Removing Index.php From the URL Slug in WordPress

Posted on February 22, 2020May 4, 2022 by Tony

This post assumes you’re having a hard time removing the index.php file name from the URL slug of your WordPress site.

Looks like something like this:

defragged.org/index.php/%postname%

This means one of two things:

Lets Encrypt: Unable to install the certificate

Posted on February 15, 2020May 20, 2020 by Tony

You’ve heard it’s important to install Let’s Encrypt (LE). You spin up your Ubuntu 18.04 machine and try to use https://certbot.eff.org/.

You run the command:

certbot –apache -d domain.com

You are greeted with:

How To List UFW Rules When The Application is Inactive or Disabled

Posted on February 8, 2020May 20, 2020 by Tony

When working on your server you might need to disable the Uncomplicated Firewall (UFW). When doing so you’ll notice it doesn’t display your rules when the application is inactive.