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Hugo: I’m receiving the message “We were unable to load Disqus.”

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When building a Hugo site you may well get  the message “I’m receiving the message “We were unable to load Disqus.” ”

It took me a while to trouble shoot on mine.

Basically Hugo them developers have a habit of setting the baseurl in the config.toml as “/”

Your site will seem to work – but Disqus javascript needs the full url

So if you get the message from Disqus on your Hugo site saying it can load – set your baseurl  to a the full domain e.g. https://example.com  and clear your browser cache and try again.

The clue to the solution is at the very end of the Disqus help page https://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/472007-i-m-receiving-the-message-%22we-were-unable-to-load-disqus-%22

 

5 minute guide to setup process monitoring with MONIT on Linux

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If you are running a VPS, for a production server, it is very useful to have a process that monitors, and restarts if failed, and notifies you of key processes, like apache, mysql, postfix & ssh.

Monit is a free open source tool that does the job.

Took me a little while to get my head around the setup, but it is actually very simple, one you know, and can be done in 5 minutes.

 

These are the step I take on Debian (should be the same for Ubuntu)

You don’t need to start anything or add it to any startup files, it does that automatically

There are a few settings needed to allow notification, and email address, an email server and a httpd server so you can monitor. These are in /etc/monit/monitrc

Find the comment line with the word mail server.  My mail-server is on MailGun and my server is on Google Cloud  Compute so uses port 2525.  (obviously change the myuser / mypasswd / mydomain )

Find the comment line # set alert sysadm@foo.bar  and add the line

Find the comment # set httpd port 2812 and uncomment (remove the #) the first 3 lines so you get

Save the file & then do a quick configuration test

if OK reload monit

and check the log (as any issues with mail server will show now )

ctril-c to stop following the log

check the status, the following command should show just one ‘System’

Now we add the services we want to monitor, for me that is apache, mysql, ssh and postfix  and these are all redefined in /etc/monit/monitrc.d  so we just need to copy the definitions into /etc/monit/conf.d   like so

restart monit

check the status , the following should give you all the info

And that is it, now if say mysql dies, it will be restarted and you will get an email

 

 

 

 

Why businesses should use a Google Apps consultant?

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Google Apps consultants help businesses do what they need to do –  that is focus on their businesses but still get the IT solutions they need. As a consultant brings expertise that isn’t available in-house either because of skill or resource constraints.

Google Apps is a set of tools that totally replaces the Microsoft Office Suite and it’s all cloud based. Coupled with Gmail for business this gives a business the opportunity to have great collaborative tools without extreme expense, in fact a very modest pay as you go monthly fee based on number of users.

A Google Apps consultant is someone that is experienced in implementing Google Apps into businesses. It is not just the technical work of setting up Google Apps, actually the technical work is fairly straightforward, what’s slightly more complicated is the change management, bringing in a new set of tools into your business, if you have more than a couple of employees, can be quite tricky.

A Google Apps consultant is experienced in change management and the issues that arise from a new set of tools, this experience also can include coaching and training or more sophisticated techniques such as creating champions within your business.
Once you engage a Google Apps consultant they will be able to set out a whole migration plan for you and set out the success factors and measures for your implementation.

Using a Google Apps consultant makes for better approach to change of business solutions because if you try and do it all yourself you’ll be learning the first time and you’ll be making the mistakes that a consultant has seen 100 times before, knows the pitfalls and is able to avoid, so using a Google Apps consultant is something that all businesses that are planning to migrate to Google apps should consider seriously.

 
Benefits of using a Google Apps consultant – summary

  1. implementation of your change is less risky as Google apps consultant understands, maps out, and manages the risks of changes
  2. more cost-effective by focusing your resources on your business you’re not distracting yourself or staff and by using specialist skills
  3. the Google Apps Consultant will know how to best align your business processes to the tools, this is something that can take you a while to discover on your own
  4. the Google Apps consultant will will have knowledge of complementary tools and be able to advise you the best fit of tools within your environment beyond the Google Apps solutions.
  5. the Google Apps consultant most likely is from a Google Apps partner, and a partner will be able to provide you enhanced long-term support and assistance such as provision of backup solutions.

Just as a reminder of what Google apps for work actually gives you: Google apps for work covers a range of business tools the one that is most well known is Gmail for work, this is a first-class email tool and can eliminate the need for any in house servers such as exchange servers. The next most important part of the Google Apps suite is what is collectively known as Drive. Google Drive provides a cloud storage solution but coupled with the cloud storage solution comes a set of office automation tools, such as Docs ( which is a word processor ), Sheets ( which is a spreadsheet ) Slides ( which is for presentations) and many more tools.

For more details about what’s included in Google apps you can visit this page https://goo.gl/McyvgA

Moving email to Google Apps

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This is the first post of mine relating to Google Apps for Works, or as it used to be called Google Apps for Business.

One of the primary reasons a business moves to Google Apps is for email, well at least this is a very common reason.  Google Apps actually provides so much more than email, you can find out more about that here -> https://goo.gl/McyvgA

The subject of this post is moving email to Google Apps and I am writing a few notes, based on my experience of doing many moves.

I’ll assume that you have already set up you Google Apps for Works account, if not do it here https://goo.gl/McyvgA , it is free to set up and free for 30 days so no reason not to.

When you set up a new account, it will guide you through the verification of your domain and setting up of mail exchange (MX) records, depending on your technical skills this may be easy or a challenge. Google try and make it easy as a step by step process, and there is help at the end of a phone, however if you prefer you can get a company like fullworks.net  do it it for you, you may find they even have offers that make it a cheaper and better way too.

Once you are set up correctly, and added the users you need, any new emails will flow through to your new Google Apps Gmail accounts.

Job done! – Well not quite, as if you are like most people you probably have a history of old emails that you want transferred across.

Again Google try to make this easy, inside your Google Apps admin panel is a migration icon. The migraGoogle Apps email Migration Tooltion tool helps you easily import your data and has options for Email, Contacts & Calendar.

 

Depending on where your Email is kept, you will have to provide the correct access. In most cases this is the IMAP server, user name and password for your old Email.Google Apps Migration Options

Once successfully connected, you have an option to provide a from date, which by default is 6 months. Be careful, you probably have a lot more older emails, so check (all folders and users you are planning to migrate!) before continuing. I like to select custom a migration date.

Select custom migration date

The next step is to SELECT USERS, where you select the Google Apps users that you want to receive the emails ( I assume you have set one up prior to this stage, but if you haven’t you can open a new tab – keeping the existing one open and create a Google Apps user ).

You can select one, or several users. You will be asked for their individual server username and password (you may have provided this earlier).

Select Email User

Once you have input the credentials you can click the run arrow (start migration for selected users).

Run Email MigrationAnd that is about it, you will get a progress indicator and a request to refresh the browser for status updates.

The migration service isn’t fast, so don’t spend too much time looking at the screen.

If you want to find out more about Google Apps for Works visit https://goo.gl/McyvgA

If you want a hand setting up your Google Apps for Works or to find out what discounts are currently available, contact http://fullworks.net

 

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