A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
.htaccess disable access to site during Maintenance Mode / Deployment
Because I have to look this up from time to time, a note to myself: Add the contents below to your .htaccess to have Apache respond with a “Temporarily Unavailable” message in case a .maintenance file exists. — Handy during deploys RewriteEngine On # Show “Temporarily Unavailable” page if there’s a .maintenance file present RewriteCond …
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.htaccess trim www. prefix from domain name Because I have to look this up from time to time, a note to myself: Add the contents below to your .htaccess to have Apache trim the www. prefix from URLs while preserving the rest of the URL (domain name, querystring, etc). RewriteEngine On # Trim www prefix RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC] RewriteRule ^ https://%1%{REQUEST_URI} …
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.htaccess enforce HTTPS Because I have to look this up from time to time, a note to myself: Add the contents below to your .htaccess to have Apache enforce HTTPS while preserving the rest of the URL (domain name, querystring, etc). RewriteEngine On # Enforce HTTPS (everywhere) RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L] ~
ab (ApacheBench) Error "apr_socket_connect(): Invalid argument (22)"
Note to self: when running ApacheBench it does not know how to resolve localhost. Instead you’ll have to use 127.0.0.1. I seem to forget this every single time I use it 🤦♂️ ~ Won’t work: localhost $ ab -n 5000 -c 50 http://localhost:8080/ This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 1843412 $> Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, …
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The past week I took a closer look at the several options on how to run a PHP app with Docker. In the past I’ve ran a few pre-built containers, but now I wanted to truly get to the bottom of it all as I don’t always need a full blown container with all extensions, …
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Just choose the web server / web front you’re using (Apache, Nginx, HAProxy) + whether you want to support only modern, intermediate, or old versions of browsers and a proper configuration will be generated. <VirtualHost *:443> … SSLEngine on SSLCertificateFile /path/to/signed_certificate SSLCertificateChainFile /path/to/intermediate_certificate SSLCertificateKeyFile /path/to/private/key SSLCACertificateFile /path/to/all_ca_certs # modern configuration, tweak to your needs SSLProtocol …
# Use name-based virtual hosting. NameVirtualHost *:80 UseCanonicalName Off # ~/Sites/ vhost configuration – sends foo.bar.dev to ~/Sites/bar/foo <VirtualHost *:80> VirtualDocumentRoot /Users/dave/Sites/%2/%1 <Directory "/Users/dave/Sites"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> </VirtualHost> What that VirtualDocumentRoot does is map the above company and project to the %2 and %1 variables, respectively. …
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One of the things I like about GitHub is the fact that it sports a gh-pages branch. Anything you push to it, is automatically published on your GitHub subdomain http://username.github.com/projectname/. Inspired by this GitHub publishing flow, I’ve set up a likewise method on our web servers at work: a branch which gets published automatically onto …
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