Publishing code coverage in Azure DevOps and making it look pretty is way harder than it should be. It’s something that sounds simple, oh just check the box on the task – but nope you have to make sure to read the notes and add the additional parameter to the test task. Okay great, now you have a code coverage tab, but what is this .coverage file and how do I open it? That’s not very user friendly. And don’t get me started on having to wait for the entire pipeline to finish before you can even see the code coverage tab – nonsensical. Continue reading
Jan 20 2023
How to resolve merge conflicts in Azure DevOps
There is a simple and effective extension that allows resolving Pull Requests merge conflicts directly in Azure DevOps: Pull Request Merge Conflict Extension Continue reading
Jan 19 2023
How to enable trace log and debug in Terraform CLI
Jan 11 2023
Postfix lookup in hosts file
In case you need to make Postfix look in your local /etc/hosts
files before doing DNS lookup add following in main.cf
file: Continue reading
Jan 10 2023
How to handle React routes in Apache and Nginx
Usually little setup of Apache and Nginx is needed so they can handle React routes properly without trying to treat them as real files or directories resulting in 404 Not Found in React.
Here are the snippets of the React routes related settings for Apache and Nginx. Continue reading
Dec 23 2022
Implement Secure Headers in Apache and Nginx
HTTP security headers are very important part of website security as it protect you against different types of attacks including, XSS, SQL injection, clickjacking, etc.
When you visit any website from your web browser, your browser requests it from the web server where the web site is hosted on. The web server then responds with HTTP Response Headers. These headers contains meta data, status error codes, cache rules and more. It also tell your browser how to behave when handling your website’s content. When you use the web and interacts with websites, your browser stores its information. These headers will help you to outline communication and improve web security. There are six most important security headers that you should be aware of and we recommend implementing if possible.
Be careful, these headers are applying globaly in server if you want to change to specific files please add headers inside a location (nginx) or filesMatch (apache) block. So if you add headers inside any location, files will apply only headers inside location block and global headers will not works for these types of files. Continue reading
Dec 23 2022
Implementing Cache control headers in Nginx and Apache
Cache-Control are HTTP cache headers that holds instructions for caching for requests and responses. It is used to defines how a resource is cached, where it’s cached and its maximum age before expiring. When you visit a website, your browser will save images and website data in a store called the cache. When you revisit the same website again, cache-control sets the rules that determine whether your resources loaded from your local cache or if the browser should send a request to the server for fresh resources.
For better understanding of how the browser renders pages quickly using the cache, you need to know about browser caching and HTTP headers. Continue reading
Nov 08 2022
.htaccess: Option FollowSymLinks not allowed here
I moved from mod_php to fcgi style hosting and got the following in Apache error log when I tried to open one of my websites:
[Tue Nov 08 08:34:08.357359 2022] [core:alert] [pid 19149] [client 95.158.43.63:14405] /home/domain.com/public_html/.htaccess: Option All not allowed here
[Tue Nov 08 08:35:58.058962 2022] [core:alert] [pid 14190] [client 95.158.43.63:46366] /home/domain.com/public_html/.htaccess: Option FollowSymlinks not allowed here
Oct 28 2022
Git Error cloning remote repo code 128 early eof
In case you cannot clone your repository even in shallow mode it means that more memory is needed for git to fetch the files. The git output is similar to:
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ERROR: Timeout after 10 minutes ERROR: Error cloning remote repo 'origin' git fetch --tags --progress --depth=1 -- git@bitbucket.org:username/repo.git +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*" returned status code 128: stdout: stderr: remote: Enumerating objects: 13045, done. remote: Counting objects: 0% (1/13045) remote: Counting objects: 1% (131/13045) ... Receiving objects: 98% (12804/13045), 360.22 MiB | 635.00 KiB/s Receiving objects: 98% (12804/13045), 360.95 MiB | 643.00 KiB/s fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly fatal: early EOF fatal: index-pack failed |
Again we see the same
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
fatal: early EOF
fatal: index-pack failed Continue reading
Aug 31 2022
mysqldump directly to another server, mysqldump redirect to scp
It’s not a big deal to perform mysqldump command, get your database as a file and transfer MySQL database to another server by moving the file to another server and import it,
But what if there is no enough space on a disk to store the dump file? In this case it would be great to create MySQL dump file directly on the remote server. And not only you can create dump file directly but even clone a database to remote MySQL! Here I show how to do this.