by colin | Dec 28, 2016 | Technical Nuggets
I Can’t Access The Admin Shares! Windows provides a number of pre-configured administrative shares to allow administrators to perform functions like system backup. These include ones like C$ and ADMIN$. However, in a workgroup environment Microsoft has made...
by Ashdown Technologies | Jul 5, 2016 | Support Alerts
Ashdown Technologies has recently created a new program to help our customers stay current with their WordPress site’s security and bug fix updates. We have created this program because while WordPress provides the capability to do updates, most people neglect...
by colin | May 6, 2016 | Support Alerts
We are happy to announce that our Authorize.Net plug-in has been extended to optionally automatically add a percentage to all credit card transactions. This is identified as a “Convenience Charge” for the convenience of paying by credit card. If your...
by Ashdown Technologies | Apr 19, 2016 | Support Alerts
Effective immediately, customers connecting to the following servers for FTP and phpMyAdmin can do so securely: www7.infofind.com www9.infofind.com wp7.infofind.com Anyone trying to use phpMyAdmin over non-secure HTTP will automatically be redirected to the secure...
by colin | Apr 7, 2016 | Support Alerts
It has come to our notice that the Android update released around April 6th 2016 has resulting in customers being unable to access email on our servers from their phone. We are actively researching this issue to determine if we can implement a fix or come up with a...
by colin | Mar 23, 2016 | Technical Nuggets
If you have recently converted from Apache 2.2 to 2.4 you may notice messages in the error log like this: [Wed Mar 23 13:08:11.163913 2016] [access_compat:error] [pid 19243:tid 140019733808896] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xx:16275] AH01797: client denied by server...
by colin | Feb 18, 2016 | Technical Nuggets
A Note for PHP-FPM Users If you are using PHP-FPM to process your PHP files in Apache, you may have a security risk. A common way to access the PHP-FPM service is by using mod_rewrite to direct files (with the appropriate extension) to it. This works well until you...
by Ashdown Technologies | Feb 18, 2016 | Support Alerts
For our WordPress customers using the ‘Divi’ theme on their site — We received notification this morning (February 18th, 2016) from the ‘Divi’ theme developer that a security hole in their theme was found that could allow privilege...
by colin | Jan 13, 2016 | Technical Nuggets
If you are using this Staff Directory plug-in Version 1.0.2 you know that there is no way to control the order of the entries. We have modified the file called classes\staff_directory_shortcode.php to add this feature. You can download the file in a ZIP file from...
by Ashdown Technologies | Nov 17, 2015 | Support Alerts, Technical Nuggets
Due to changes in the encryption and credit card industries over the past year, older web browsers are being left behind in supporting the latest security requirements. For those of you who happen to be still be on Microsoft Windows XP or Vista and are using Internet...