The case here is pretty specific, but maybe somebody will be in the situation like me. I have a WordPress site and I wanted to deploy a React app to include in my portfolio and serve it from a subdirectory. When deploying a React app in a website subdirectory there are some hurdles to overcome. […]
What are .htaccess files?
If you were working with WordPress you probably noticed that the installation includes a .htaccess file in its main directory. Whate are these files? The .htaccess file set specific directives for the server that should be executed when an Apache server is handling requests. In the default case of WordPress it makes the server point […]
Docker volumes vs bind mounts
By default a docker container won’t store any persistent data, so anything that we write to its writable layer won’t be available once we stop it.When running Docker containers we might be interested in persisting certain data. This can be achieved by using either volumes or bind mounts. Below I’m describing main differences between the […]
Different ways of running PHP on an Apache server
When the server receives a request from the user it can serve the file directly, but sometimes it needs to translate the code using the appropriate application. Otherwise it would be showing the users the source code of the website. A server like Apache needs to be configured to handle specific content with an appropriate […]
Finding out PHP server interface
There are many ways of executing a PHP script. For example you might run it directly from a command line: Other option, readily available for tesing since PHP 5.4, is to spin up the internal PHP server and see the result in a browser: If you create a simple page with the function php_sapi_name you […]
Installing Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate
Https has become a standard for websites and there’s no excuse not to have it enabled on the website, especially that it’s now possible for free. Making your website more secure with a free Let’s Encrypt certificate is very easy with Certbot. The prerequisites are to have SSH access to your server that is already […]