Category Archives: Insight

How to set an animated background in Microsoft Teams without third-party software

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You probably already tried to add a new background with a .mp4 or .gif extension, but soon realized that Microsoft Teams will only allow you to select from .jpg, .jpeg, .png, and .bmp files.

I thought to myself: what if I uploaded a .mp4 or .gif to wherever Microsoft Teams stores those custom uploaded backgrounds?

A quick search lead me to ~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Teams/Backgrounds/Uploads.

I copied an animated.gif, which is the file I want to use as my background, and an animated_thumb.jpg to match, which is the little thumbnail I will click on to select the animated background. That said, while I could select the thumbnail, the background was still not applied.

My last hope was to rename animated.gif to animated.jpg to see if Microsoft Teams could be fooled into thinking it’s a static image, and low and behold, after selecting the thumbnail, the GIF actually played in the background.

Animated Microsoft Teams background

So if you have a MP4, just convert it to a GIF, because MP4s won’t work.

Can’t install WordPress with LSCache on CyberPanel

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It said it was successful, but the generic CyberPanel page still displayed when visiting the site.

Upon further investigation, the issue appeared to be with this command:

[email protected]:~# wp core download --allow-root --path=/home/example.com/public_html/
Downloading WordPress 5.5 (en_US)...
md5 hash verified: 983821e81b5b8398469e5c1807c4abf4
PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 62914560 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 36864 bytes) in phar:///usr/bin/wp/vendor/wp-cli/wp-cli/php/WP_CLI/Extractor.php on line 101

It looks like it ran out of memory during the installation.

Let’s review the memory limit and increase it if necessary.

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Enable auto index on website hosted on Ubuntu with CyberPanel and OpenLiteSpeed

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I have a server at DigitalOcean with Ubuntu, CyberPanel, and OpenLiteSpeed, and wanted one of my websites to display an auto index of all the files uploaded to it.

There is a default.php script in /usr/local/lsws/share/autoindex that simulates Apache’s auto index, which suffices for my needs, but if you don’t want to use the default, you could copy and edit default.php to create your own template.

Now, to enable and use this auto index, you have to adjust the index directive in your website’s virtual host configuration file:

index  {
  useServer   1
  indexFiles  index.php, index.html
  autoIndex   1
}
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Can’t connect to MySQL server on ‘127.0.0.1’ (61)

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I downloaded the MySQL server and installed it on my Mac, but every time I tried to connect to it, I got the following error:

Can’t connect to MySQL server on ‘127.0.0.1’ (61)

There can be many reasons for this error, most of which are generously covered online, but in my case it was because MySQL was running on port 3307. I think the port was updated in a recent MySQL server update, because I’ve never had this issue with a previous MySQL server version. Here’s how to check if you have the same problem, and how to change it to port 3306 (unless you want to keep it running on port 3307).

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Use Apache instead of built-in Nginx in GitLab CE

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I installed GitLab CE using the Omnibus package on a new CentOS 6 server. Since I had nothing else on the server at that time, everything GitLab setup and configured was sufficient. Later, however, I wanted to setup additional sites on the server using Apache, but now port 80 was already bound to by GitLab’s built-in Nginx web server.

What I really wanted to do is disable the built-in Nginx server and just use my self-managed Apache installation. Here’s how to do just that.

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