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How to change logo in ocPortal themes

ocPortal is a content management system that has many features out of the box without any additional plugins or modifications.

We wrote an article about creating new theme in ocPortal and now we are going how to create new logo with builtin logo wizard. Easy to achieve but still effective.

How to create new ocPortal theme

ocPortal CMS has several features that other CMS systems could only dream about.

One of them is ability to create a brand new theme in a minute based on the default theme, with completely different colors. A ocPortal theme has something that is called "Seed colour" and it represents the colour around which all other colours in the theme will be built.

XAMPP conflicts with the Skype port

Conflict between XAMPP and Skype

If you are not able to start Apache web server in XAMPP, in the most of cases the main cause is that some other application uses the same port (default is 80). That is the reason why we advise changing Apache port in XAMPP. And at the first place among all applications that use port 80, except another web server, is Skype.

How to change XAMPP Apache port

About XAMPP

XAMPP is a free and open source cross-platform web server solution stack package, consisting mainly of the Apache HTTP Server, MySQL database, and interpreters for scripts written in the PHP and Perl programming languages.

The program is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License and acts as a free web server capable of serving dynamic pages. XAMPP is available for Microsoft Windows, Linux, Solaris, and Mac OS X, and is mainly used for web development projects.

How to fix orphaned SQL Server users

What are orphaned users in SQL Server

Sometimes after restoring a database it is possible that there is no login id or password associated with the user. This is true even if there is a login id that matches the user, since there is a GUID (called a SID in Microsoft-speak) that has to match as well. These users are called orphan users.

When you restore a Microsoft SQL Server database on a different machine, you cannot access the database until you fix the permissions.