I recently had to setup PHP 5.6 explicitly for testing and verifying work on a client website. Given Ubuntu 14.04LTS natively supports PHP 5.5.9, and the defacto standard ondrej/ppa is now installing PHP7 it took me a bit to understand exactly how to get 5.6 so we could verify tests and Read more…
Landrush If you’re a full-stack developer or otherwise involved in multi-tiered application development, you’ll often find your applications littered with various subdomains. For example api, kb, mail, etc. These can be incredibly cumbersome to setup locally when developing, and Landrush is the answer. Once installed, you’ll be able to configure countless subdomains with your Read more…
You can download and use the role here: https://github.com/litwicki/ansible-php7 roles/php7/tasks/main.yml — – name: fix proxy for Ubuntu shell: sudo echo “nameserver 8.8.8.8” | sudo tee /etc/resolv.conf > /dev/null – name: Update apt sudo: yes apt: update_cache=yes – name: Install System Packages sudo: yes apt: pkg={{ item }} state=latest with_items: – curl Read more…
It’s easy for a developer to reference the mantra “RTFM” (read the f***ing manual) but often they’re really long so that’s hard! Thankfully that paid off and in case anyone else finds Ansible’s Documentation overwhelming, I wanted to point out a lifesaver configuration option: roles_path = /path/to/roles:/another/path/to/roles Now we can Read more…
As part of my ongoing love affair with Ansible I’ve written a simple NGINX role for use in some pet projects. https://github.com/litwicki/ansible-nginx
I have recently fallen deeply in love with Ansible; thanks largely to my new position at Fresh Consulting. As such I’ve found it incredibly fun to tinker and learn in my spare time and recently decided to tackle PHP7 for a variety of reasons. My pet project CamelotHub was a Read more…
A simple bash script to provision a virtual host for a wordpress site, called within a Vagrant build. #!/bin/bash # Install wp-cli curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar php wp-cli.phar –info chmod +x wp-cli.phar sudo mv wp-cli.phar /usr/local/bin/wp wp –info # Setup Apache to properly rewrite the WordPress www subdomain sudo cp /var/www/myapp/provisioning/myapp.conf.vagrant Read more…