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IT related tech tips since 2006Custom 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' \...
CentOS httpd taking 90 seconds to restart – systemctl restart httpd
The fix: systemctl kill httpd systemctl start httpd The problem: systemctl restart httpd ### wait for 90 seconds... too long
Using 7z cli to create chunked PST
# create a folder to hold the chunks mkdir archive651 # run the command to split the pst into 1GB chunks and plonk them in the folder 7z a -v1g archive651\archive651 "archive 651.pst" Just discovered that azcopy is nowhere near as good as the AWS utilities that upload...
Replacing my OnePlus 3T with a OnePlus 9
I purchased a OnePlus 3T from Kogan July 2018 It has been a good phone but recently I noticed it was starting to get slow. So I started to think about replacing it However the decision to replace it was forced on me. While on holidays recently in Tasmania I fumbled my...
Use the Azure metadata Service to query the Public IP Address of VM
curl -s -H Metadata:true http://169.254.169.254/metadata/instance?api-version=2021-02-01 | jq -r '.network.interface | .[] | .ipv4.ipAddress | .[] | .publicIpAddress' #output 13.70.193.102
Get Your External IP Address
curl -s https://ipinfo.io/json | jq curl http://checkip.amazonaws.com