Tag: Howto


  • AWS re:Invent

    Embarrassingly spent ages looking for slide decks from re:Invent. Just click on the title under the video thumbnail. I’ve reached the point in my life where my parents couldn’t work the timer on the VHS.


  • Plesk, Nextcloud, and my shortening patience

    Plesk, Nextcloud, and my shortening patience

    I’ve a self-hosted Nextcloud installation which is frankly a pain, there’s a good chance updates will break everything.

    Plesk is a fairly intuitive interface for self hosting but is best described as non-standard Ubuntu – it handles PHP oddly in particular. Try running any of the php occ commands in it’s built-in ssh terminal and you’ll experience an exercise in frustration.

    It’s so much easier to ssh from an Ubuntu terminal and run occ commands directly – giving a clear error message that you can actually do something with.

    So its the Circles app, lets disable it:

    php occ app:disable circles

    Then repair the installation:

    php occ maintenance:repair

    Finally turn off maintenance mode:

    php occ maintenance:mode --off

    I don’t even use that app but we’re back.


  • Update Plesk Docker Images

    Docker > Settings > Overview > Recreate, making sure that “Reset variable to default” is not checked.

    Finally start.