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By default, a fresh Ubuntu installation allowes a root user to connect by password. That's a big security risk because of two points - working with root users and working with passwords. Way better is to work with sudo and to disable password authentication for SSH - and use certificates instead....
Laravel Jetstream uses Google Fonts by default. That can be a problem in regard of GDPR. This short tutorial describes, how to self host your desired Google Fonts.
The first step is to use the Google Webfonts Helper to download the desired Goo...
Laravel by default uses a CDN to load alpine.js. That can be a problem in regard of GDPR. To self host the alpine.js file, you have to install alpines:
npm i alpinejs
There is something special with alpine.js - it must not be loaded before LiveWire initializes. That's why we put alpine.js in...
You can update a users password by running the following commands from the command line. First step is to open Artisan Tinker:
php artisan tinker
Then, run these commands - replace the email address and the password as desired
$user = App\Models\User::where('email', 'my_email@example.com...
If you want to use ImageMagick with Laravel Valet, you have to install it using homebrew:
brew install imagemagick
pecl install imagick
pecl install imagick may lead to this error message:
$ pecl install imagick
[...]
checking for pkg-config... no
pkg-config not found
co...
I just updated my local sentry, but there was a problem with the update that leads to this output:
2020-05-15 06:09:24,047 Connection to Kafka failed (attempt 0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/src/snuba/snuba/cli/bootstrap.py", line 56, in bootstrap
client.list_topics...
In post archives, WordPress mostly shows a post excerpt instead of the full post, followed by a “Read more” link. If your post contains tags like “pre” or “code” (and many more), the content of these tags will be removed from the excerpt. This can lead to conditions, where the excerpt does not show...
FacetWP is a cool WordPress plugin, that allows filtering archives, search results, etc. by so called facets. You can find more information about this plugin here. FacetWP works fine with the Astra theme, except one point – pagination. Lets say, your a...
I just had a problem with this site. I use Laravel Forge to manage multipe VPS. Most of these VPS host multiple WordPress websites (using isolation). And I just want to delete one of these sites and create the same site again. That didn’t work. The site creation...