Recently we upgraded an external facing proxy server at work from Ubuntu 12.04 + Apache to Ubuntu 14.04 + HAProxy. Because of the number of services that this proxy handles and the need for it to be secure, we needed to configure it to work with a maximum number of devices and get at least an A rating on ssllabs.com. Continue Reading…
Rather than try and reconfigure the Amazon Linux AMI to use Nginx and PHP-FPM, it was much easier to reconfigure Apache to use the Event MPM instead of Prefork, and utilize PHP-FPM. This uses the 64bit Amazon Linux 2014.09 v1.2.0 running PHP 5.5. Save this file in your .ebextensions folder in the root of your project. Continue Reading…
In some recent development work, I ran into a brick wall with Suhosin. I have both the patch and extension installed on all of my dev boxes on all PHP versions I test with. I found the need to change a configuration directive, but I did not want to change that value in the suhosin server configuration, I wanted to change it via either .htaccess or PHP’s ‘user.ini’ file. Continue Reading…
With the releases of SMF 2.0 RC4 and RC5, many new integration hooks were added to allow mod authors to extend the code without hacking it up. Previously to this, the primary use of these hooks was for integration with bridges or other systems, no one really used them for modifications. SimpleSEF was the first mod to really exploit these hooks and use them to accomplish some pretty major tasks. What I am presenting here is a simple PHP class that can be used to easily extend SMF using it’s integration hooks with very little effort. If you are fairly new to PHP or new to PHP5’s OOP model, you should turn away now. Continue Reading…