Windows built-in L2TP/IPSEC VPN Client fails to connect when either side is behind a NAT firewall

In particular this can occur when connecting from Windows client to a Windows Server L2TP/IPSEC VPN (lol...)

To allow the client to connect in such situations, create a fixvpn.reg file containing:...

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OpenVPN Troubleshooting

Peer certificate verification failure

OpenVPN Connect v3 client using a openvpn configuration for a Synology NAS running OpenVPN VPN Server cannot connect.

Errors: “Connection Failed. There was an error attempting to connect to the selected server"

"Error message: Pe...

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While attempting to import an .sql file I experienced the following error Unknown collation: 'utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci'. It turns out the CentOS 7 repo only offers MariaDB version 5.5, meanwhile www.mariadb.org currently offers version 10.1 and also states that utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci is a support...

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So I just installed Grav CMS (v1.1.3 and Grav Admin v1.1.4) to attempt keeping my notes. A CMS that uses a flat filesystem is ideal since I will be able to write and refer to my notes both via web browser as well as via SSH terminal.

I ran into an issue using the SimpleSearch plugin in which no...

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