Poncho´s Blog

I recently ran an scan on my phone using MVISION, the scan indicated that com.pivotmobile.android.metrics was sideloaded and that it should be deleted. I could not find any valuable information of its origin on the web, but looking at the application tab on my phone setting, I could find out that it was installed by Claro, my mobile service provider. So I went ahead and deleted, without a problem Take this with a little caution (backup before deleting, bla, bla, bla), but it looks to be a mobile service provider tracking file.

I guess there are hundreds of ways to do this, but I found the Google natural way of doing it, and I guess it could no be simpler: Install Site Kit by Google  plug-in to your Wordpress site. No need to change themes or anything. It is a simple plug, where you just click the default options, and Google will do the rest.  Detailed instructions are located here: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/7527509?hl=en

I was not able to open my wordpress site, and getting the error  "safari cant find server"  the problem seem related to a misdirection of the port not being redirected and trying to run the local wordpress site on port 80, as I have deleted or ruined something in the restore process.  As a workaround, in MAMP, I went to Settings > Ports & User and then set server ports to the usual defaults, not MAMP defaults (80, 81, 443, 7443, 3306 & 11211). Then I could start the site. It is just a workaround, because, going back to "Set default MAMP ports" won't fix it. Then I tried to open in a fresh browser (I tried opening on Edge), and it worked! So, next step, opening on a Private Window in Safari did the trick. So I deleted history from today, and it all worked fine.

 When I tried to restore a mysql database on phpAdmin, I got the following error: phpMyAdmin - Error Incorrect format parameter after a small search found the following article https://sitenetic.com/techie/mamp-error-phpmyadmin-error-incorrect-format-parameter/ The problem for me was that the database dump file was bigger than 32MB, and php was limited to 8/32 MB The fast solution for me, on MAMP console, selected Languages>PHP> and Open the default template There I changed the following parameter post_max_size = 128 M and the following parameter upload_max_filesize = 128 M MAMP offered to restart the servers, and I did, and then, I was able to restore my database!