DevOps notes on Docker, Kubernetes and Linux, and the PHP and Symfony apps that run on them
I started this Grav Blog in 2016. It was a nice and easy way to get started and to set everything up. I got the LingonBerry theme and only changed a few lines in its CSS code to change some colors. This worked fine and was up for years. Recently I wanted to get back to my blog to add some more content, and so I looked…
Continue reading — Adding WebPack Encore and TypeScript to Grav
On one of the sites I have set up with a contact form there started to get quite a few automated spam messages. To avoid this I could add something like reCaptcha but first I'll try to take care of this on my own and not add more Google stuff to the page. My form was pretty simple: Based on my Message Entity: The form…
Continue reading — Creating a HoneyPot to avoid Spam in Symfony Forms
A lot of people are still used to a website needing to start with www. but this is not the case anymore. This has created a few issues in the past where I would deploy a site to https://my site.org but then when people would try to share the site they would mention it as https://www.my site.org. Making the site…
Continue reading — Traefik Middleware, redirect from www. to the simple URL
In Linux I tend to create my own scripts to try to automate the most stuff possible. In order to do so I used to create a new file in /usr/local/bin, make it executable and then start writing script into that file: when vim opens I tend to start my scripts with something like this: I mainly set the interpreter to…
“Innovation is the outcome of a habit, not a random act. ” Sukant Ratnakar
When you notice some errors in the Grav plugins you can help fixing them by changing some of the code inside. When upgrading to Grav 1.7 and PHP 8 it crashed with the DropCaps plugin. To get this to work I forked the repository and added a contrib directory at the root of my Grav project. Then I cloned the fork: To…
