Oliver Kaufmann okaufmann

Deploying Laravel on a shared hosting using only .htaccess

Making Laravel work on a shared hosting can be troublesome, because Laravel needs to have its document root set to the public directory. This may not be configurable by a user or even desirable, when the server is hosting multiple websites.

Here's a simple method using only a .htaccess file placed in Laravel's root directory - e.g. alongside app, bootstrap, config, ... No changes whatsoever are necessary to your code.

The file rewrites all the requests so that requesting /file.png would in fact return /public/file.png and anything else is routed to /public/index.php. This also ensures that nothing outside the public folder can be accessed, thereby protecting any sensitive files like .env or database/*.

The simple method

How to install/run Cron in a Docker Container

Example crontab entry for testing

Append a timestamp to the log file every minute /var/log/cron.
Append "tick" and "tock" in alternate minutes to /var/log/cron.

* * * * * /bin/date --rfc-3339=seconds >> /var/log/cron
*/2 * * * * /bin/echo 'tick' >> /var/log/cron

Mr. Robot Season 2 Easter Egg Sites

1. Ransomware webpage

Page Name: AdobeTracking.pageName = 'Mr. Robot : S2 Easter Egg Sites : Ransomware : Home';
URL: http://i239.bxjyb2jvda.net/
JS: http://i239.bxjyb2jvda.net/web_analytics.js
Credit: https://0x41.no/mr-robot-s02e01-easter-egg/

On load, this page displays a countdown timer starting at 24:00:00. When time is over, the following "hidden" message is revealed:

AngularJS with TypeScript

http://sirars.com/2014/01/28/when-two-forces-meet-angularjs-typescript/

Setup

As a .NET developer, I use Visual Studio 2013 and the TypeScript plugin for Visual Studio. This is what I recommend that you use unless you are for some reason against the Windows

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<opml version="1.0">
	<head>
	<title>Subscriptions - [email protected]</title>
	</head>
	<body>
	<outline text="PHP" title="PHP">
	<outline htmlUrl="http://frederickvanbrabant.com" title="frederickvanbrabant.com" xmlUrl="http://frederickvanbrabant.com/feed.xml" type="rss" text="frederickvanbrabant.com"/>
	<outline htmlUrl="http://mattallan.org" title="mattallan.org" xmlUrl="http://mattallan.org/feed.xml" type="rss" text="mattallan.org"/>
	<outline title="asked.io" xmlUrl="https://asked.io/rss" type="rss" text="asked.io"/>

	<?php

	class ProcessWireValetDriver extends BasicValetDriver
	{
	private $possibleDirectories = [
	'', // PW in root, do not remove except you're sure you never use it
	'/dist',
	'/public'
	];

	/**
	* Create a Symfony response for the given exception.
	*
	* @param \Exception $e
	* @return mixed
	*/
	protected function convertExceptionToResponse(Exception $e)
	{
	if (config('app.debug')) {
	$whoops = new \Whoops\Run;

	##
	# Gzip Settings
	##

	# Enable Gzip compressed.
	gzip on;

	# Compression level (1-9).
	# 5 is a perfect compromise between size and cpu usage, offering about
	# 75% reduction for most ascii files (almost identical to level 9).

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<!-- Object Format Tests -->
	<script src='tiles.js'></script>
	<!-- Binary Format Tests -->
	<!--<script src='tiles-binary.js'></script>-->
	</head>
	<body>
	</body>

-# delete local tag '12345'
-git tag -d 12345
-# delete remote tag '12345' (eg, GitHub version too)
-git push origin :refs/tags/12345
-# alternative approach
-git push --delete origin tagName
-git tag -d tagName