29
Apr 2018
Evasive Errors
Very Evasive Proxy Error from Nginx and Apache when uploading files that take more than 1 second to upload. However, the problem was not with Proxy Servers, nor the backend application server. The problem came from the router. TL;DR Proxy Error from Nginx, and Apache on large uploads Large file upload breaks; Large file uploads disconnect; File Upload fails if upload > 1000ms or 1 second No true fix, except
28
Apr 2018
Clean up that full ubuntu /boot drive
Without any kind of monitoring or alerting enabled, you may run into your /boot drive becoming full, and resulting in errors such as:
26
Apr 2018
YouTube cast surround sound
Apparently the default YouTube app does not cast surround sound. However, YT Music app does. * Cast To Device: Vizio SmartCast * Cast From Device: Samsung S8
Short script for creating and attaching an EBS Volume to an EC2 instance. This is useful in cases where you want to dynamically create your EBS volumes outside of the cloud formation auto provisioning process.
21
Apr 2018
Get Volume ID of a Volume, if it exists
volume_name="Name of your volume" volume_id=`aws ec2 describe-volumes --filters Name=tag-key,Values=diskuse,Name=tag-value,Values=${volume_name} |jq -r --arg zone "$zone" ' | select( (.State=="available") and (.AvailabilityZone==$zone))] | .VolumeId'`
21
Apr 2018
Generate Certificates using openssl One Liner
This is useful for scripting the generation of certificates for web servers. openssl req -new -newkey rsa:4096 -days 365 -nodes -x509 \ -subj "/C=${node.ssl.country}/ST=${node.ssl.state}/L=${node.ssl.city}/O=${node.ssl.ou}/CN=${node.ssl.cn}" \ -keyout /etc/ssl/private/node-selfsigned.key -out /etc/ssl/certs/node-selfsigned.crt
21
Apr 2018
Set Message Attribute on SQS Message
Example on setting message attribute on SQS Message. Subscribers can perform actions based on the attributes. queue.send_message(MessageBody=json.dumps(instance), MessageAttributes={ 'instance_id': { 'DataType': 'String', 'StringValue': instance } } )
21
Apr 2018
Monitor an SQS Queue based on your instance id
Example of monitoring an SQS queue for messages that an attribute instance_id, which is set to your EC2 instance. The python subscriber can be used to monitor a shared SQS and act upon messages targeted at a specific instance id. #!/usr/bin/env python3 import boto3 import requests import subprocess import os import time boto3.setup_default_session(region_name="${aws.region}") sqs = boto3.resource('sqs') response = requests.get('http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id') instance_id = response.text build_bucket = "${aws.s3.bucket}" # Retrieving a queue by
19
Apr 2018
Alfresco ADF 2.3 the TL;DR version.
Install NPM https://www.npmjs.com/get-npm Start Alfresco Content Services, and Alfresco Process Services. Locally via SDK with default user/pass (admin:admin) #Fill in prompt to generate your project mvn archetype:generate -Dfilter=org.alfresco.maven.archetype: #After Project Generation, navigate into the project folder. chmod 755 run.sh ./run.sh Clone ADF project from github: git clone https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-ng2-components Navigate into the project’s demo-shell sub folder: cd alfresco-ng2-components/demo-shell If Alfresco Content Services and Alfresco Process Services is remote, then you must edit the
18
Apr 2018
How to convert SVG to PNG on a MAC?
This simple command will allow you to generate a PNG of a Font Awesome SVG icon, in the color that you want. sed -i '' 's/path /path fill="#2E74B5" /' fontawesome.svg ; qlmanage -t -s 24 -o . fontawesome.svg Command Breakdown: gnu-sed is used, instead of OSX sed shipped with the mac. brew install gnu-sed --with-default-names sed -i '' 's/path /path fill="#2E74B5" /' fontawesome.svg ; Add an RGB color fill
11
Apr 2018
Alfresco Default Administrators
Issue: Default Administrators identified in Alfresco does not give the user Administrative privileges Troubleshooting: Check that there isn’t any space in your comma delimited list of names. Recommendations: If you are using LDAP sync to synchronize users, an LDAP admin group should be defined, and this group should be nested under the ALFRESCO_ADMINISTRATORS group.