To redirect all traffic from www.example.com to just plain example.com, add another `server {}` block to your nginx config file with just two lines: server { server_name www.example.com; return 301 $scheme://example.com$request_uri; }... Read more »
Mailgun is a fantastic, free service which allows you to send, receive and track emails effortlessly. It's dead easy to integrate with your self hosted Ghost blog. Mailgun configuration Log in to your Mailgun account. Go to "Domains" section. Click on "Add New Domain" and add a subdomain you want to send emails from. Follow on... Read more »
It's highly recommended to update your Raspbian as often as possible to make sure you always have the latest security patches and updates. Manual update Open Pi's console and update package list by running the following command: sudo apt update Then upgrade your packages to their latest versions with below command: sudo apt full-upgrade This should keep you up to... Read more »
I wanted to write a simple script that would convert multiple files from one encoding to another. I didn't want anything big or running in the browser. Command line script seemed like the right approach. Coming from a web developer background my first thought was a script written in PHP and converted to a command line app. Just saying that... Read more »
Google's reCAPTCHA is great for getting rid of those pesky bots spamming your contact forms. Implementing reCAPTCHA on your site is very easy, albeit somewhat confusing if you try to follow official documentation. Below example assumes you're using NodeJS with ExpressJS for back-end and Pug (formerly Jade) templating engine on the front-end. General principle is the same regardless of languages... Read more »
Using command line If command line is not your cup of tea and you need graphical interface, Raspbian has just the thing for you. ssh to your Raspberry, (follow my guide here, if you need to set up ssh access as well), Run commandsudo raspi-config Select Interfacing Options, Select VNC, Select Yes. VNC should be active now. You can use... Read more »
Below method is useful if you don't have access to Raspbian's graphical interface. You don't need to install any additional software, everything is available out of the box and can be done in a few simple steps: ssh to your Raspberry, (follow my guide here, if you need to set up ssh access as well), Run commandsudo raspi-config Select Network... Read more »
If you don't have an extra monitor or keyboard, you can still set up your Raspberry Pi without them. SSH is not enabled by default on Raspbian, but with just a few steps we can fix that. Follow official guide to install Raspbian on an SD card, Eject the card and put it back into the card reader, Access boot... Read more »
Kohana framework displays really nice and descriptive error messages, for a development environment that is. For production, obviously no error reports should be shown to the user. Instead we should display a pretty "404 Not Found" page, or some other error page. Creating those custom error pages in Kohana v3.x can be a real pain in the... Read more »
A quick tip how to find out which version of jQuery is loaded on your site. It can come in handy, for example when you’re developing a script for an existing site and you need to find out which version of jQuery has been used. Of course, you can always just look in the HTML code, but this method... Read more »
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