Compiling Mod_Geoip2 for use with EasyApache 4 (EA4) and cPanel via command line (CLI)

We’ve recently switched to using Easy Apache 4 (EA4) on our cPanel installs as it’s ‘basically not beta’ now. And we ran into a problem where a site needed to have GeoIP installed but it wasn’t available to us through the WHM control panel. After some extensive searching and trial and error, we were able to come up with instructions that worked for our particular install which I’ll document below incase someone else needs these....

May 10, 2016 · 5 min · 963 words · Matt G

Compiling Hyperion for Phillips Hue support on Mac OSX

I’ve been looking at the Lightberry for a little while now and have been thinking about how I’ll be implementing it once I actyually buy it and add it to my setup. The Lightberry is pretty cool, it works with a Raspberri Pi and a bunch of video grabbing / repeating so you can get lights behind your television that look like those really expensive TV’s for about 1/10th of the cost....

October 26, 2015 · 5 min · 985 words · Matt G

Setup Auto Updating Apt-get Update/Upgrade with Logging

Here’s some quick steps on how to setup automatic apt-get upgrade and apt-get update on your ubuntu server, with the capability of logging and sending someone of your choosing a notification of the updates and what the output was. I pieced this together from various sources around the web into a step by step quick tutorial both for myself, and others to use to make it easier when wanting to set this up across servers....

May 31, 2015 · 2 min · 319 words · Matt G

Adding Perfect Audience Tracking to Yahoo Merchant

To add perfect audience tracking to your yahoo store, do the following; add the tracking code to all pages through the ‘store manager’ by editing the store ‘variables’. This code should look something like this. <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { window._pa = window._pa || {}; var pa = document.createElement('script'); pa.type = 'text/javascript'; pa.async = true; pa.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https:' : 'http:') + "//tag.perfectaudience.com/serve/<strong>YOURTRACKINGID**.js"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(pa, s); })(); </script> Now, to track conversions, you’ll want to add the following code , by going to the checkout manager, and editing the ‘order confirmation’ page, and adding the tracking code to the specific box for tracking....

March 10, 2015 · 1 min · 177 words · Matt G

Remove Order Messages from Bigcommerce

Finally figured out how to do this, here’s information; STEP 1: Go into “Design” > choose “Edit HTML / CSS” then choose the template “account.html.” You can remove the following three codes from the HTML. Don’t worry, if you don’t like the way it looks you can always revert back to the default original HTML. (Remove ONLY these codes and NOTHING else). %%Panel.SideAccountMenu%% %%LNG_ViewMessages%% %%LNG_ViewMessagesDescription%% STEP 2: (optional) *IMPORTANT – If you really want to keep that “Manage Your Account” side panel (%%Panel....

January 31, 2015 · 2 min · 284 words · Matt G