Having installed OpenVPN Access Server on my VPN, I now want to install the OpenVPN client on my Firestick so that I can access my apps and files securely.

Sometimes you need to install an app on your firestick that is not available on the FireTV app store.

And in some cases, the app you want to install is designed to work with a mouse rather than a firestick remote which prevents you accessing the full functionality of the app (such as scrolling to the bottom of the 'page').

The Mouse Toggle app is the perfect solution to this problem, and one I need in order to be able to use my favourite free VPN - OpenVPN. There is a link to the "How To Install OpenVPN on Firestick" article at the end of this post.

Although it's not quite as straightforward as downloading from the app store, you don't have to have a degree in computer engineering to do it. All that's really required are a couple of tools which ARE available on app store, and the ability to find the app you want on the internet.

Every now and again, I find myself having to revisit the process of redirecting webpages for any number of reasons. This is usually effected by editing (or creating) a file named .htaccess. The instructions in .htaccess are interpreted and executed by an Apache module called mod_rewrite.

Another reminder how to perform a routine task from the command line or in a Bash script.

This time it's deleting files & folders. Also how to remove a group of files that are older than (x) days.

Occasionally, especially after extracting an archive, the file and folder permissions are not as they should be; I had a recent example where many files were left with 640 permission instead of 644.

As a reminder to myself, here's how to do it.

If you're a skinflint like me, and you want a reliable VPN but don't want to have to pay a subscription for it, why not install OpenVPN on your VPS server. It's free if you're happy to be limited to two connections at any one time, otherwise you need to pay.

I recently had a problem logging in to an Opencart administrators control panel. I entered the username and password correctly, and although the url in the browser address bar changed to the correct dashboard url , the page displayed was still the login page.

Having just started exploring Android Studio 3.5, I was working through the basic tutorials and got stuck with getting Data Binding to work. The video tutorials, although great, frequently assume much more knowledge than I possess.

Following an update, I started getting random 403 Forbidden errors on some of my (and my clients) sites.

In this situation, I would normally check the Apache error log to see what was causing the problem, but there was nothing in the log to suggest anything was amiss. This is how I resolved my situation.

I recently experienced a problem overriding the main PHP configuration file with a php.ini file containing the changes I wanted in the individual site's root directory.

This is how I fixed the problem