Apache How to fix the Symfony web profiler in Apache So you've decided you want to create a web project using Symfony 5. Great! By now you've got the Welcome to Symfony 5.x.y message on screen; great. You're
Apache How to configure your CI pipeline environments This seems like a very simple and trivial thing, but it's something which gets easily overlooked. Setting up a CI pipeline environment is fairly trivial (unless you are using a
CI/CD Test your deployment tasks The great part of a CI/CD pipeline is the headache which can be removed from deployments. Manual deployments are painful, but deployments as a whole don't need to be.
Backups Changing my backups It's been a long time since I turned my old PC into a home media server, but time has come for that machine and some of its components, so it's
CI/CD CI/CD with Gitlab - Getting started I use Gitlab a lot. I use it for personal projects and have also implemented it at work - I love the platform. Others are available, but for me, having everything in one place (though risky!) saves me having several tabs open. I've previously
Web Server When does the cloud make sense? Most people are run all realising that the cloud is just someone else's computer which you use for a time. Cloud computing and the benefits of elastic computing are available, but not everyone will we benefits from their investment in "the cloud "
Development Starting with Symfony - Performance issues When I chose Symfony, I did so on the understanding that it was going to be a relatively lightweight, performance framework which I could use to build web apps which scale nicely and respond quickly. I started out with a tutorial where the first
Development Jenkins disk space usage I'm working on a project, part time, in my spare time. As part of that project I have Jenkins for continual building when I publish anything into the master branch in git. I've not done much for a month or so, but logged in
Apache Encrypting the site I've just moved my site from HTTP over to HTTPS. It's not a huge deal for something like this, but it's something which I've really needed to do for a while, and something which is becoming more and more popular. For most people this
Development Database Connection Mis-information Whilst on my usual rounds on StackOverflow to help spread useful knowledge of computing and web development I came across the following comments on a thread: Um... mysql doesn't connect over http... nor to a directoryNeither should it be an url. Usually it's localhost
Configuration Fun with Firewalls Firewalls are not fun. I've got to open with that statement as I've been doing a lot of work with firewalls in the past couple of weeks. It's not been the most enjoyable of experiences, but I can see why it is needed. I've
Home Server Home Media Server - Part 3 - Samba Configuration As part of the file server set up, I've created a Samba share in order to facilitate easily adding files to it form other devices around the house. It's not been plain sailing, and I'm still not convinced my setup is right, but here's
Configuration Home file server - part 2 After posting my intention of building a home file server for storing my movies, pictures, music and probably other files, I had to order some new hard drives to give me the space I think I will need. They have now arrived so I
Hardware Installing non-free network drivers on Debian As you might have seen, I've been building, and setting up my home server, and during that time, I had a lot of issues getting things working. Some were from my own stupidity (like installing the GRUB loader on the wrong hard drive so
Apache Setting up your web server I spend quite a lot of time on StackOverflow, both in terms of finding answers for something I need, and also for helping people out with their issues. One question I see quite a lot is around security permissions for creating files on the
