Git delete local and remote branch
First checkout a different branch than the one you want to delete, for example the master branch. git checkout origin master Solution 1 To delete your local and remote branch execute the following....
View ArticleSolr 3.5 – Wildcard search as SQL LIKE
The Solr schema.xml has by default the “string” fieldType. <fieldType name="string" class="solr.StrField" sortMissingLast="true" /> Add the following fieldType to your schema.xml and use it as...
View ArticleUbuntu 12.04 – Install OpenPanel
The OpenPanel team doesn’t support Ubuntu 12.04 server officially yet, but I got it installed with a few alternate steps and it seems to work fine. I have it running in a production environment. The...
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Ubuntu 12.04 + Nginx 1.2.6 + PHP-FPM server block / vhost example
On the internet there is not a clean and good example that is basic and follows the best practices. Below I created a working server block / vhost or virtual host example that works on Ubuntu 12.04...
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Ubuntu 12.04 – Install Jetty 9
This article will show you how to install Jetty 9 on Ubuntu 12.04. Perform all steps as root. Jetty requires Java. Install Java first, I prefer openjdk instead of oracle jdk, but it should work both....
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Ubuntu 12.04 – Install Solr 4 with Jetty 9
This tutorial requires that Jetty is installed as described at http://pietervogelaar.nl/ubuntu-12-04-install-jetty-9. In this tutorial we use an example project named “airport” and a core named...
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Configure Nginx 1.2 as proxy for Jira 5
By default Jira runs on a certain port, in this example at port 8090. It is accessible by http://example.com:8090/. This tutorial will make the Jira application available at port 80 with jira as path...
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Ubuntu 12.04 – Install Jenkins 1.4 with Jetty 9
This tutorial requires that Jetty is installed as described at http://pietervogelaar.nl/ubuntu-12-04-install-jetty-9. This tutorial describes how to install Jenkins 1.4 with a jenkins.war file with...
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Vagrant – Shell provision example
Vagrant is a very awesome tool that makes it very easy to develop your projects in virtual machines on your laptop or PC. It’s a wrapper around VirtualBox. It also makes them very easy to maintain and...
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PHP Xdebug + Netbeans + Vagrant
Xdebug is a very nice extension for PHP. It makes step by step debugging possible in your IDE. For most people it’s easy to install Xdebug and start debugging their web application on localhost with...
View ArticleUbuntu 12.04 – Install Postfix, Dovecot and Vimbadmin
This tutorial shows you how to install Postfix (2.9.6) with Dovecot (2.0.19) and the manage tool Vimbadmin (2.2.2) on Ubuntu Server 12.04. Perform all actions as root! Checks Hostname You should check...
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Capistrano – Automatically start ssh-agent
Capistrano has the option to forward the local SSH agent to the remote server it wants to deploy on. But for this to work a SSH agent must be running and the key(s) you want to forward must be added...
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Solr automatic core update as deployment step
For my projects I use the awesome tool Capistrano for deployment. In a project that uses Solr, I want to update the Solr core as a deployment step if the Solr configuration of that core is changed....
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ZF Apigility + Doctrine + UniqueObject Validator
Building a REST API with Apigility that is built on top of Zend Framework 2 is awesome. I’m also a big fan of Doctrine. So I started with the zf-apigility-skeleton and added the zf-apigility-doctrine...
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Ubuntu 14.04 – Install Selenium as service (headless)
This tutorial will show you how to install Selenium as a service on a Ubuntu 14.04 server. An Ubuntu server doesn’t have a GUI in contrast to Ubuntu desktop, so we will also need to setup a virtual...
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Ubuntu 12.04 – Install Gearman and GearmanManager
Gearman is a wonderful job management system. It allows a web application to pass work to be done on other servers that may be more powerful or more capable in other ways. In addition, multiple jobs...
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PHPUnit – How to mock multiple calls to the same method
When you write unit tests with PHPUnit there is a big chance that you have to mock several objects. If you want to write a unit test for your controller action and you use Doctrine ORM in your...
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PHP-FPM + OPcache + Nginx + Capistrano stable deploy
Capistrano is great for deploying web applications. But the “current” symlink construction causes issues with PHP-FPM and OPcache enabled. PHP-FPM will display old pages after deployment or PHP-FPM...
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Chef – Speed up development with vagrant-proxyconf and squid
If you do a lot of Chef development, you are creating cookbooks with recipes. But also converging, testing and destroying virtual machines with Test Kitchen that uses Vagrant. In this process, virtual...
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Install ViMbAdmin with Chef
Two years ago I wrote a tutorial to install a complete Postfix mail server with Dovecot, SpamAssassin and ViMbAdmin. At the moment I am automating this tutorial for CentOS 7 with Chef. For ViMbAdmin I...
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