Author: eric

Eric Holsinger is a software professional and photography enthusiast in Southern Maine.

Getting the party together

For a new Pathfinder campaign, I wanted to avoid the drudgery of character creation, party introduction and learning the basic roll-play rules.

I recently started GMing a new Pathfinder campaign. The players are mostly new to roleplaying tabletop games. I wanted to make the first session as easy as possible by avoiding a few of the things I dread the most: character creation, party introduction and learning the basic roll-play rules.

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fixing xampp security checkapache no such file or directory workaround

There is a bug in the XAMPP installation security tool for Mac preventing updates to the .htdocs for the dashboard.

By: Quentin Meulepas

There is a bug in the XAMPP installation security tool for Mac.

Seems like they changed the xampp tools from XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/xampp to XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/dashboard and didn’t update the XAMPP/xamppfiles/share/xampp/checkapache file.

I noticed this when I ran the XAMPP/xamppfiles/xampp security utility and noticed it wasn’t making my xampp pages require a password from the browser.

Turns out the command line dumps the error out and I didn’t notice it. Here’s the output (note the “No such file or directory” messages):
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