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

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.