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Starting with Laravel on Mac OSX

Installation

Install composer

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

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Setting up MediaTemple Self Managed VPS

I recently moved from MediaTemple's Legacy (dv) 4.0 VPS server to their new Self Managed DV server. You get to save up some money at the expense of all the software that comes pre installed on a server. All you get when you rent one of these badboys is an empty box with your choice of OS. Sounds exciting!? You bet your ass it does! It can also be a bitch if you're not as familiar with how things work in a web server. Getting this setup helped me understand servers unlike never before and having full control over everything that happens in your box does feel kinda nice.

Installing VirtualMin

The best free application I found for managing websites is Webmin + VirtualMin. Though I would like to mention Ajenti, which looks pretty badass and seems to be in active development.

I come from Plesk which was definitely a superior tool but so far I envy noth

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• The Best of the Best Practices (BOBP) Guide for Python
• Structuring Your Project
• Learn Python the Hard Way
• Configuration Files in Python

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# add user to www-data
gpasswd -a user www-data

# change ownership
chown -R user:www-data /var/www/

# find all files, set permissions to rw-r-----
find /var/www -type f -exec chmod 0640 {} \;

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NCurses Disk Usage (aka: ncdu)

Use it like ncdu -x -q if you're invoking it remotely (e.g. via ssh) and ncdu -x otherwise.

ncdu 1.10 ~ Use the arrow keys to navigate, press ? for help
--- / --------------------------------------------------------
    6.2GiB [##########] /home  
    1.9GiB [##        ] /var
 1.0GiB [# ] /usr

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Find ID or Class attributes in HTML

Regex

\s(id|class)="[^"]+"

Test

https://regexper.com/#%5Cs(id%7Cclass)%3D%22%5B%5E%22%5D%2B%22

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Safely updating a Craft installation

1. Download correct version

• Put in ~/tmp/ folder and don't forget to erase afterwards
• Download URL: http://download.buildwithcraft.com/craft/{version}/{version}.{build}/Craft-{version}.{build}.zip
• Download wget DOWNLOAD_URL and unzip

2. Backup database

• Craft usually backsup the database on update but I've found that if you have a large database, this can cause the update script to timeout.
• Craft should be set to 'backupDbOnUpdate' => false
• This means that you'll be responsible for updating previous to updating

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https://gist.github.com/jerry-gdd/d3ccbf01b4d5cde3db54a1b502d04b36
https://github.com/johanneslamers/craft-workflow/blob/master/install.sh
https://askubuntu.com/questions/866985/phpenmod-mcrypt-and-phpenmod-mbstring-return-errors
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23921117/disable-only-full-group-by/31058962#31058962

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Notes regarding VPS setup

Making Craft Play Nicely With MySQL 5.7.5+

Create /etc/mysql/conf.d/sql_mode.cnf

[mysqld]
sql_mode=STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,NO_ZERO_IN_DATE,NO_ZERO_DATE,ERROR_FOR_DIVISION_BY_ZERO,NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION

Source: Craft Cook Book

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#!/usr/bin/env bash

# ---------------------------------------
#          Virtual Machine Setup
# ---------------------------------------

# Adding multiverse sources.
cat > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/multiverse.list << EOF
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-updates multiverse