As a Linux administrator, you must check time to time which files and folders are eating more disk space. It is very necessary to find the unnecessary junks and free up them from your hard disk to avoid overrunning the…
Author: Arvind Kumar
10 Useful du (Disk Usage) Commands to Find Disk Usage of Files and Directories
The Linux du (abbreviation of “Disk Usage”) is a standard Unix/Linux command which is used to check the disk usage of files and directories. The du command has many parameters that can be used to get the results in different…
How to prevent hotlinking on Nginx and Apache
Hotlinking is bad – It could be quite annoying and concerning when someone copies full link to a media source such as an image or video on your website and uses that link to embed an image or video on…
Simplest way to create and include a helper functions file in Laravel
Helper functions are time saving tools in any application. Laravel comes with many built-in useful PHP functions which may include Array & Objects functions, String functions, URL functions and many more. Please see the complete list before you decide to…
Useful functions in Laravel and its Usage explained
There are many useful “helper” PHP functions in Laravel. According to documentation, “Many of these functions are used by the framework itself; however, you are free to use them in your own applications if you find them convenient.”
How to enable MySQL slow query log and analyze it on Linux
MySQL slow query log is helpful when you needed to debug slow down or failure of your MySQL server. Slow query log can house queries which took more than n number of seconds.
Fixing “SSL operation failed” email issue in cakephp 3.8
Sending emails from a CakePHP application is simply a piece of cake. Here is the basics according to Cakephp documentation. Here is the basic configuration in config/app.php
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 | 'EmailTransport' => [ 'default' => [ 'className' => 'Smtp', 'host' => 'smtp.xxxxx.com', 'port' => 587, 'timeout' => 30, 'username' => 'xxxxx@xxx.com', 'password' => 'xxxxxxx', 'client' => null, 'tls' => true, 'url' => env('EMAIL_TRANSPORT_DEFAULT_URL', null), ], ] |
In the EmailTransport configuration named default above the className parameter is the…
CakePHP Captcha Demo is now available via Github & Composer
CakePHP Captcha plugin for CakerPHP 3 is a very useful addition to your CakePHP app to keep submissions on your website spam free. CakerPHP 3 Captcha plugin can be installed in simple steps using composer or can be placed in…
How to receive an email alert for disk usage on linux server
Your website may stop functioning properly when disk space gets low. There are a lot of actions and tasks on a website which needs free space on your disk in order to complete. Having low disk space may result in…
Adding custom css for the post editor view in WordPress
You should read this post in order to understand the methods to add custom css to WordPress admin end. In this post I will demonstrate how to add custom css styles which reflects within the Visual editor in WordPress.