Quick reminder of steps to setup a Laravel project on Ubuntu/Linux Mint and similar. First install composer: sudo apt install composer Install PHP dependencies: sudo apt install php-cli-prompt php-common php-composer-semver php-composer-spdx-licenses php-fpm php-json-schema php-mysql php-symfony-console php-symfony-filesystem php-symfony-finder php-symfony-process php7.0-cli php7.0-common php7.0-fpm php7.0-gd php7.0-json php7.0-mbstring php7.0-mcrypt php7.0-mysql php7.0-opcache php7.0-readline php7.0-xml php7.0-zip php7.0-gd php7.0-mbstring php7.0-mcrypt php7.0-mysql Use composer to create your Laravel project: composer create-project –prefer-dist laravel/laravel myprojectname Install composer.json packages: composer install Generate a key for your new project into the .env file: php artisan key:generate Amend the .env file with database details and anything else you want to customise. You may want to install mysql with sudo apt install mysql-server Auth Scaffolding… Read more »
Posts By: jonny
Resetting Root Password in Single User Mode
Using Red Hat / CentOS etc one method of resetting the root user password is to boot into single user mode. To do so, interrupt the booting process if necessary so that you see the Grub boot menu: Press the ‘e‘ keyboard button to edit the boot parameters. You will see a menu with the… Read more »
Password-less Login to the MySQL Command Line
The goal here was to be able to log in to the MySQL command prompt be simply typing mysql rather than: mysql -u root -p This is particularly useful for automation of routine backups etc. mysql_config_editor The command mysql_config_editor has several options (e.g. add, remove, print) for managing encrypted passwords. To create a new login… Read more »
Connecting in to Docker MySQL Instance
Just recording a few of these steps for future reference. Pull the MySQL image from the hub: docker pull mysql/mysql-server:latest Run an instance: docker run -it -d -p 33060:3306 –name mysql-for-jonny -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=opensesame -d mysql/mysql-server:latest Run a shell on the instance: docker exec -it mysql-for-jonny /bin/bash Once inside the instance use the MySQL client: mysql… Read more »
Gitlab Bulk Update can_create_group
I had been allowing normal users to create groups within Gitlab but subsequently discovered some confusion among users between groups and projects. Some users had been creating a group with a single project when a project with multiple members was more suitable. A decided to update the Gitlab CE database to amend the users table… Read more »
sssd ldap: No Group Members shown
With several machines configured to use OpenLdap for user and group authentication/permissions I was having the problem that the getent and id commands were not returning all the group information. My groups exist in the Ldap directory with members listed under ‘memberuid’ but when entering: id testuser I was getting: uid=15052(testuser) gid=10000(testgroup) groups=10000(testgroup) when I… Read more »
Minecraft Overviewer
Just some instructions to remind myself how I got the Minecraft Overviewer working on CentOS. wget http://overviewer.org/builds/el6-64/7/overviewer-0.12.109.rpm yum install overviewer-0.12.109.rpm VERSION=1.9 wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/${VERSION}/${VERSION}.jar -P ~/.minecraft/versions/${VERSION}/ Now create a config file to tell Overviewer where the assets (texture images etc) are: vi overviewer_config texturepath = “/home/jonny/.minecraft/versions/1.9/1.9.jar” Then run Overviewer telling it the location of your config… Read more »
Gitlab API Command Line Access
There appears to be a few methods for managing a Gitlab installation from the command line. I liked python-gitlab and I installed it onto Linux Mint/Ubuntu as follows: apt-get install python-pip pip install python-gitlab After installation I created a config file: ~/.python-gitlab.cfg With the content as below but the private_token would need changed for your… Read more »
Restoring a Gitlab Bundle
I had an odd request today from a guy who had deleted his GitLab project and his local repos. I had been making backups using: gitlab-rake gitlab:backup:create and sifting through the backups under /var/opt/gitlab/backups/ I extracted the latest tar and under the ./repositories/username directory found some .bundle files for each of his projects. After some piddling… Read more »
PhidgetBoard with Raspberry Pi and Tripwire
I very luckily got landed with a: Phidgets Board 8/8/8 (1018) Lanbao PR18S-TM10DNO Photoelectric Tripwire Sensor (3525) I wired the Tripwire sensor to the Phidget board as described in the wiring diagram and as shown in the video: I connected the USB cable from the Phidgets Board to the USB port on a Raspberry Pi… Read more »
