Toggen Technology Blog
This is a collection of posts starting in 2006. Focusing mainly on Linux, Open Source Software and technical tips collected over several decades in IT
How to get the Google Chrome PDF Viewer to Display Document Page Sizes in Metric
I am in Melbourne Australia and we use metric page sizes. The default display units for the embedded Google Chrome PDF Viewer is inches. How to set Google Chrome to display document properties in Metric Click the three vertical dots menuChoose settingsEnter language...
Chrome file download – Failed Network error
Just had a situation with sending a file to a browser with POST request and it kept erroring with "Failed - Network error" <?php // post request $barcodefile = 'barcode.pdf'; return $response->withFile(TMP . '$barcodefile, ['download' => true, 'name'=>...
Custom Location of cups-pdf denied by apparmor
Apr 25 09:31:23 tgn-vm-wms01 kernel: audit: type=1400 audit(1650879083.060:80): apparmor="DENIED" operation="mknod" profile="/usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf" name="/var/www/tgn/webroot/files/PDF/Test_Page-job_12.pdf" pid=80336 comm="gs" requested_mask="c"...
CakePHP 4 from a sub directory
I have a default Nginx install on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS inside a Docker Container using I want /var/www/html to remain as the root but a CakePHP 4 app to be served as follows requests to hostname.example.com as served from /var/www/html requests to...
Where in the Middlewares should CORS Middleware be placed in CakePHP?
Answer: Before RoutingMiddleware EventManager::instance()->on('Server.buildMiddleware', function ($event, $middleware) { try { $middleware->insertBefore(RoutingMiddleware::class, new CorsMiddleware()); } catch (\LogicException $exception) { $middleware->add(new...
Client Apache Reverse Proxy Cake Token Auth
I have a reverse proxy that protects backend with basic auth client -> basic auth reverse proxy -> token auth cakephp backend curl -v \ -H 'Authorization: Basic base64_encoded_user_pass_here' \ -H 'Authorization: Token cakephptokenhere' \...
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