Automated SSL/TLS Cert in CVP
Although CloudVision runs on CentOS 7 and uses nginx as a front end for the services, you can’t just use letsencrypt to issue a cert, as it seems like CV will overwrite it each time....
Category: SysAdmin
Running Java GUI application in Docker
This is a more specific use case of running GUI application with Docker, the procedure is pretty simple (and most option are common for most GUI application), You mount the UNIX socket for the...
Ansible and ControlMaster file naming
This is a short story of how Ansible and SSH (using the default `ControlMaster` path format) bite me. Lets take this network layout for example, where we have the same IP behind different machines....
Force WP-CLI output to be in English
I need to manage several insensate of WordPress installations, some of them are in Hebrew and one in Arabic, and when using `wp-cli` to manage the installation, e.g when running `plugin update`, `wp-cli` will...
How to Debug PHP Script From the CLI with PHP-XDEBUG
TL;DR Set your IDE to listen for incoming connections On the CLI set the session key, Set XDEBUG configuration (can be set as environment variables or in-line parameters) PS. set remote_host IP to the...
Using any custom character for commenting in Ansible comment filter ({{ … | comment }})
I needed to have comment in a PHP ini file where the prefix for commenting is `;`, This is something I didn’t find in the documentation for the comment filter, so I looked in...
Updating Exchange Rates Automatically in SAP Business One
This is a personal itch I had to scratch, instead of waiting for our accountant to update the exchange rates in SBO to allow us enter new orders, I wrote a small PowerShell script...
XDEBUG session timeout with “Service Unavailable” message
Some Background My application runs on a CentOS machine with Apache 2.4 and PHP 5.6 (from Remi’s repo), and I’m using PHP-FPM (via Apache proxy option) to handle the php files (not the Apache...
Speed up a MySQL restore from a dump file
This is a small snippet I found to speed up importing MySQL dumps, it’s is almost as fast as coping the DB files directly. Pre INSERT Put the commands at the top of the...
Dynamic DNS with CloudFlare
This is a simple hack I found for my self to have a “Dynamic DNS” for my home IP. I’m using CloudFlare as my name server to manage the zone file for my domain,...