The “Advanced SSH & Web Terminal” community add-on for the Home Assistant home automation package is a really awesome utility written by a guy who seems to have a bit of a surly attitude towards his users. (Hard as it is to imagine a developer with a surly attitude.) Following lots of questions about his […]
This one drove me crazy for a few weeks, and the solution was tough to find, so I’m posting it here. I would be working on my laptop and my screen would suddenly black out and the computer would randomly go to sleep as I was typing. I’d have to hit a key to wake […]
SHORT ANSWER: Try moving the file ‘ServerCustom.pem’ from the “C:\Program Files\FileMaker\FileMaker Server\CStore” directory to the desktop, and then try starting the FileMaker Server. If it works, you’ll need to download and install a new SSL certificate, but other than that you should be fine. If it still doesn’t work, put it back into “C:\Program Files\FileMaker\FileMaker […]
TL;DR: A corrupt record can cause sporadic performance problems in FileMaker databases, especially when accessing them remotely. I encountered an interesting error recently. A client database on which I am working remotely suddenly took much longer to open than it used to – increasing from about 20 seconds to fully open to about 4 minutes. The database […]
TL;DR: Legacy scripts and calculations which depend on values in container fields may break when those fields are converted to external storage. A rare circumstance, but worth filing away, maybe it’ll help someone with future troubleshooting: I was working on a legacy database yesterday, converting the numerous container fields to external storage to slim down […]
The short answer: you may need to switch to a version of PHP that uses FastCGI. Try this: Log into your Cpanel (control panel.) Under the “Software/Services” sections, click on “PHP Config”. If you don’t have one of the PHP options with “(FastCGI)” selected, chose one — the latest version with FastCGI would be a good […]
