Recently my widlcard SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt expired and I renewed the certificates manually. This involved running certbot locally and completing the dns challenges which involves setting up TXT records in your DNS records. Though this isn’t a big task to be done every 3 months, I think it would be great to be […]
Read more "Renewing LetsEncrypt wildcard SSL certificate with ACME-DNS"When there is a requirement to allow multiple request origins, you can do it with the following configuration: SetEnvIfNoCase Origin “https?:\/\/(dev|staging|game|mail)?(.domain.com)(:\d+)?$” ACAO=$0Header always set Access-Control-Allow-Origin %{ACAO}e env=ACAO This needs to go inside the Directory directive in the apache configuration file. With the snippet above, you will be able to allow requests from the following domains […]
Read more "CORS – Set Access-Control-Allow-Origin for multiple domains"Just a few days ago, I was working on an applicaiton which needed to make Cross Origin request to a rails application. This applicaiton was being served by Passenger on Apache server. In front of the application server sits a public facing Apache server where the Load Balancing happens. A custom javascript app deployed at […]
Read more "Apache and CORS – Enabling Cross Origin Resource Sharing"This is a quick post. Working on a project, I just wondered if I could delete files in terminal so that they moved to Trash so that I could recover them. I am on Mac btw. It turns out that you can install a utility with Homebrew for just that functionality. $> brew install trash […]
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