As Plesk runs nginx on top of Apache, authorization headers may not be passed through by default.
If this is causing you issues, add the following line to your nginx configuration:
FcgidPassHeader AUTHORIZATIONJust add the line to your fcgi config file i.e. /etc/httpd/conf.d/fcgid.conf on CentOS and restart httpd.
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Recently I've been completing a Web Development BSc hons Degree, hence the lack of updates. The degree required the development of a dissertation / final year project. During the project I came across Laravel and Laracasts.
Laravel proved very useful within my project, the use of project dependencies with Composer made certain tasks such as PDF generation and testing much easier through development and with project deployment.
If you haven't tried Laravel yet, I would recommend it, especially if you have any previous experience with CodeIgniter or CakePHP. Laravel is built on symphony and therefore contains many of it's features. The ORM within Laravel helped to turn 8 lines of code into around 2 in many cases throughout development with use of the relationships in models.
If you are looking for somewhere to learn more about Laravel, and more of it's advanced features, I can also recommend Laracasts by Jeffery Way. This can be very useful when starting out with Laravel, and helping to get to grips with tools such as Vagrant a portable and transferable development environment.
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So, i've spent the past week or so getting my head around the new Google+ Signin code.
The 10 minute quickstart can be found Here. And while yes it does fancy javascripty things, it took me a while to figure out how to get what I wanted, which was the Google Profile data within PHP. The example does very well at javascript, but if you're looking for some sort of information within PHP that you can store to a database, or use against your existing login system, this quickstarter isn't the greatest of use.
So, this leads me on to getting frustrated, a lot. And getting a bit further, then getting frustrated again.
All I wanted was a unique ID, and an email address from Google so I could use these to authenticate an existing user in a system.
Could i find any documentation on this? Nope.
Most documentation leads somewhere along to https://developers.google.com/+/ or similar, or leads to the OAuth documentation.
Now the OAuth documentation was a great help Not!
I kept getting errors stating I was missing an origin, when after reading the class files, there was no way to set an origin. So anyway, I carried on getting annoyed and kept on trying.
Now, eventually I got there (which I guess you assumed, as I wouldn't want to post on here how I failed at understanding some sample code.. that wouldn't look too great)
And I got somewhere.
I even went to the lovely task of putting how far I got on github https://github.com/ganey/gplus-quickstart-php
I hope it's useful to some people as a starter for getting the information in PHP, rather than getting all bogged down in all the client side bits. The code will need modification, and securing, and shouldn't be use production as is. However it should provide a start for others to work from to get Google+ profile information in PHP which can be used however you want.
So, i've started working with the Google Plus O-Auth stuff, which some quick start guides can be found here: https://developers.google.com/+/quickstart/php
It was going rather well initially, then I started getting some 500 errors which weren't appearing in the error log.
Now being an administrator has its benefits, as I went and checked the Apache logs to find the cause of this error.
Right, before you spend forever being tired, getting frustrated and rackin your brain at why it isn't working, think for a moment. 500 Errors are pretty much permission related issues.
The information you need: Change the permissions on your directory.
If your following demo code its this one:gplus-quickstart-php
Put it at a maximum of 555 (chmod 555 gplus-quickstart-php). Voila! Working.
Yay I passed it!
Today I took the Digital Analytics Fundamentals Course from Google. Scratched up on some Analytics knowledge, how the interface works, and took the test.
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If you are receiving database errors trying to install centovacast v3, try the following command and follow the instructions:
/usr/local/centovacast/sbin/uninstall
You can find out about Tessel here: https://tessel.io/
For those of you that dont know, here is the information from Tessel:
Tessel is an internet-connected microcontroller programmable in JavaScript that enables developers to extend the reach of the web to physical things. Created by Technical Machine
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So, I managed to flash an X10 mini pro by following this guide: XDA Developers ICS on X10 mini pro
The process took a while, and some of the files I had to find elsewhere on the internet. The first boot took a while, I was worried I bricked the phone to start with, but it eventually booted.
The phone must be booted before loading the ggapps zip, so it can install the apps, otherwise it doesn't load them.
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So, I was trying to change some symlink permission, because cPanel simply didn't want to let me use files from other accounts. The links created with Ln -s, belong to the user who created them. I kept receiving 403 errors due to the permissions. The fix is a simple '-h' in the chown command like so:
chown -h user:user
Sorry if people are experiencing some issues with the mt.gox app for windows phone, mt.gox have had some issues lately with large volumes of accounts being created.
Some of the API information has changed, and I will soon be updating the app to reflect these changes, sorry for the delay.
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