Here are some reason that prevent Word Press to run wp-cron correctly.

• Server doesn’t have DNS, and so it can’t figure out who “example.com” is, even though it is *itself*.
• Server administrators, in a misguided attempt at security, have blocked “loopback” requests, so it can’t actually make a call back to itself.
• Server is running something called “mod_security” or similar, which actively blocks the call due to brain-dead configuration.

There is simple to complex workaround to solve this issue. This problem automatically fix when your server is configured to run wp-cron properly but it require server root access and extensive server administration knowledge. So server configuration method is simply not for everyone to use. There is simple workaround to fix this issue that force wordpress to run wp-cron using alternative method that does not rely on web server configuration. To fix the issue add below line in the wp-config.php file. This line can be add anywhere in the wp-config.php file.

define(‘ALTERNATE_WP_CRON’, true);

This should restore wordpress schedule functionality.

You can easily fix this by editing php.ini file. Most of the shared hosting provider now support custom php.ini per account. It means you can have you own php.ini and optimize php setting according to your need.

Apply following steps to complete this task.

1) Find out exact physical path of your account public_html folder. Create a text file and name it phpinfo.php. Add below lines in the file. Save file then upload file in the public_html folder of your server.

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

2) Run phpinfo.php file by pointing your browser to the file. http://www.yourdomain.com/phpinfo.php. Replace yourdomain.com with your actual domain  name.

3) Search for two entries _SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"] and Loaded Configuration File. Note down value against these entries.

In my case value for above entries are

_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"]  -> /home/homefolder/public_html/phpinfo.php

Loaded Configuration File -> /etc/php/php.ini

4) If your hosting account support custom php.ini or you have server access then you can complete following steps otherwise you need to ask your hosting company to complete this for you.

If you have server command line access.

1. Create a temporary folder called “tmp” within your public_html folder from FTP. Now temporary folder path is /home/homefolder/public_html/tmp/
   
2. Login into the command prompt as server administrator.
3. Type below command and hit enter
4. $ sudo nano /etc/php/php.ini
5. It will open php.ini file in nano visual editor with root privileges. Enter root password if asked.
6. Find upload_tmp_dir and un-comment it if commented. “;” used for commenting purpose in php.ini. Simply remove this special character to un-comment line.
7. Change upload_tmp_dir value to /home/homefolder/public_html/tmp/. You line should appear similar to next line (8).
8. upload_tmp_dir = /home/homefolder/public_html/tmp/
9. Save php.ini file and restart apache.
10. Now again run phpinfo.php file in your browser. New value should appear in your php info setting.

If your host support custom php.ini

1. Create a temporary folder called “tmp” within your public_html folder from FTP. Now temporary folder path is /home/homefolder/public_html/tmp/
2. Create a text file called php.ini in your system and paste content in step (8) specified above.
3. Save file and upload to your public_html folder in your FTP.
4. Run phpinfo.php file in your browser. New value should appear in your php info setting.

Error should disappear now. However, in some cases you may still get same error. For those cases try removing trailing slash at the end of path. After the change path would be  /home/homefolder/public_html/tmp instead of /home/homefolder/public_html/tmp/

Host Support Custom PHP.INI

• HostGator
• aSmallOrange
• SiteGround
• Site5

Good Luck

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There are several way to open .docx and other file format associated with MS-Office 2007 like .pptx or .xlsx even without installing ms office 2007.

1) First and easiest way is to use Google docs to open your .docx file. There are several other benefit using Google docs for document. You can convert as well as store your files in Google docs and open wherever you want.  Users who are using Gmail might be already familiar with google doc and know how easy it is to manage doc with Google docs.

2) Use Microsoft office compatibility pack released for backward compatibility. You need to download and install Microsoft office compatibility pack from Microsoft website. After installation you will be able to open .docx file in your microsoft office version currently installed on your system.

3) Download and Use OpenOffice to open .docx file. You can also use OpenOffice for all you Microsoft office need. OpenOffice is now widely used as Microsoft office replacement and commonly used office suite in Linux environment.  This package available in many languages and available for almost all platform including Mac OSX and Linux. Download OpenOffice installer from here. You can also download and use open office portable version without installing OpenOffice whenever you need.

Use below mentioned command to format USB pen drive.

Make sure USB pen is not mounted.

If mounted Click on Places > Computer > Select USB pen > Right click > Select Unmount Volume to unmount volume USB volume.

Check partition label using fdisk command or gnome graphical partition editor.

mkfs command

In my case USB partition label is /dev/sda1. Please check at your end using above method. Be careful using while using partition label, Wrong partition label can wipe out your entire hard disk or specific partition volume.

To format open terminal window and type the command

$ sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1

For LINUX/EXT3 file system use below mentioned command

$ sudo mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1

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To get PNR status send pnr number as shown below to 9-77-33-00000.

pnr <number>

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