I had a need to change the log path for a job when using Laravel queues. I created a pipeline for file processing and wanted to have the log file name as the name of the file. This would allow my to easily check to see how the file processed. As you know when using … More Setting a dynamic log path when using Laravel queues
This is a starter docker setup to use Oracle Linux 7 with PHP 7.4 for use with Oracle databases. https://gist.github.com/d8edafa8c0862969f8f56af7a97d40cf#file-dockerfile
I love AWS and FreeBSD but sometimes they don’t love each other. Some AWS services treat FreeBSD as a second class citizen. One such way is the AWS awslogs-agent-setup.py script. The actual daemon is just some python that runs fine, but the installer is Linux only. So I adjusted the install script to install on FreeBSD. … More AWS CloudWatch Logs agent for FreeBSD
If you want to force HTTPS for your site behind an AWS Elastic Load Balancer, place this in your .htaccess file, just after Rewrite Engine On: # Force HTTPS – Proto needed for AWS ELB RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^ELB-HealthChecker RewriteRule ^.*$ https://%{HTTP:Host}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=permanent]
Ever need a simple timer for php, if so here’s one I wrote. It’s very basic but it does what I need. https://github.com/jwhulette/Timer
When using an AWS Elastic Load Balancer, the communication between the load balancer and your server is HTTP. Laravel will adjust the urls crated based on the protocol but since it only see’s http it can cause issues. To resolve this there is a nice Laravel package called Trusted Proxy, https://github.com/fideloper/TrustedProxy. The package allows Laravel to … More Using HTTPS for a Laravel app behind an AWS Elastic Load Balancer
This error drove me crazy for the longest time. I was using Vagrant, FreeBSD and Laravel for a project and laravel would not run because of where it stores the cache. It took awhile for me to find a good fix but it is fairly easy. In your /etc/rc.conf file add two lines: rpc_lockd_enable=”YES” rpc_statd_enable=”YES” … More Exclusive locks not supported error, when using FreeBSD in Vagrant.
Ever need a list of US timezones, this class creates it.
I wanted a was to send error message from my Laravel application to a slack channel so I would know of issues before a user has to contact me. There were a lot of examples using Monolog SlackHandler, but you have to make an app and generate a token for it. From a note on … More Laravel: Sending error message via Slack
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