Archive: 13 June 2013

I have never looked into getting user friendly / mod rewrites on the .htaccess file in Joomla when I am running the site locally under WAMP, but stumbled on this.

https://www.akeebabackup.com/documentation/troubleshooter/prbasicts.html

Basically, click on WAMP server’s tray icon. Go to >>  Apache >> Apache Modules and make sure that Rewrite is checked. If not, click on it and wait for the server to restart.

I was putting my Win 7 computer in sleep mode at night. In the morning the machine would be on. A quick search brought me to Task Scheduler. It turned out to be the Media Player was updating itself.

The following are screen shots of how to turn it off.