Marks Notes

<?php
// written from:
// https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/422737/wp-mail-fails-with-could-not-instantiate-mail-function-but-mail-works-fine

ini_set(‘display_errors’, 1);
ini_set(‘display_startup_errors’, 1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);
// include wordpress
require_once(‘wp-load.php’);
var_dump( wp_mail(‘mark@edwardsmark.com’, ‘test subject from wp_mail()’, ‘test message from wp_mail()’ ));
?>

<?php
// written from:
// https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/422737/wp-mail-fails-with-could-not-instantiate-mail-function-but-mail-works-fine

ini_set(‘display_errors’, 1);
ini_set(‘display_startup_errors’, 1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);
// include wordpress
require_once(‘wp-load.php’);
$to = “mark@mark.com”;
$msg = “test email via wordpress”;

$headers = array( ‘From: server‘
);
$headers = implode( PHP_EOL, $headers );
// use wordpress email function
$check = wp_mail($to, $msg, $msg, $headers);

var_dump($check);

?>

### notice this is ONE LINE! DOCUMENT_ROOT=/home/comptonpeslonline.com/public_html \ HTTP_HOST=comptonpeslonline.com \ QUERY_STRING=‘one=twooo&three=fourrrr’ \ /home/comptonpeslonline.com/cgi-bin/perlinfo.pl ;

perlinfo.pl script:

#! /usr/bin/perl

1. script to simulate phpinfo() command
   use strict;
   use warnings;
   use Config;
   use CGI;
   use Data::Dumper;

my $q = CGI->new;
print $q->header(‘text/plain’);

print “Perl Version: $^V” ;
print “nnArchitecture: $Config{archname}” ;
print “nn” ;

foreach my $key (sort keys %ENV) { print “$key = $ENV{$key}n” ;
}

both machines(?): (in same zone???)

gcloud auth login ;

then:

gcloud compute scp rl-2025-03-20260330-151033:~/*.gz ~

(notice machine name)

oddly, one of the tests seemed to remember that i did a “ssh-keygen” on the host machine and asked me for the passphrase!

create and mount a new VM disk

written from here

edit VM:

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create new disk or use existing one:

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Once completed, please logged in and do the following

lsblk ; # look for: sdb 8:16 0 100G 0 disk

fdisk -l ## get the device name

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda ; ## format the disk

mkdir /dev/sda3 ; #create a new mountpoint directory

mount /dev/sdb /dev/sda3 ; ## mount the new device to the new directory

lsblk ; ## notice the change: /dev/sdb 102626232 24 97366944 1% /dev/sda3

df ; ## notice new /dev/stb mounted on /dev/sda3

umount /dev/sdb ; ## optionally unmount
rmdir /dev/sda3 ; ## optionally remove mount point