Redirect http url to https

Force redirect http to https using htaccess

Force redirect http traffic to https

Redirect http to https url using simple file. If you have recently switched to https version, which is recommended, then you want to force the traffic to https.

This can be accomplished using .htaccess file.

How to redirect https to http

1. Create/update the .htaccess file on your root website.
2. Add the following line on the top part of the .htaccess file


RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

3. That is it. You don’t need to restart the server for this case.

You can refer this page for more htaccess examples

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Deploying Symfony on Production Server

Time to ship your symfony app to production? Here are some flight checks. Lets assume your symfony app is in folder symfony-app

1. Don’t put Symfony app in the public accessible folder on your server

If your servers public facing folder is, say, /var/www/html, then don’t put the whole symfony folder there.

Choose another deeper and non-public facing folder. Let say /apps/symfony-app. I will list how you would put the public facing folders later.
For this to happen run this command on your server

mkdir /apps

2. Pushing your code to production server

You can use FTP client like filezilla or cyberduck and put your code in /apps
If you are using git, then you can clone your app like this

cd /apps
git clone https://username@bitbucket.org/username/symfony-app.git symfony-app

Continue reading Deploying Symfony on Production Server

Configuring PHP + MySQL + Apache on Amazon EC2 Step by Step

Log in to aws.amazon.com
Click on EC2 virtual servers in the cloud

From the left menu, under Network and Security, select Key Pairs
Create on by hitting “Create Key Pair”. Mind you, aws will give you only one chance to save the pem file you will be using for logging. So make sure you download and save it.

From your select Elastic Beanstalk and follow the wizard to create an instance per your need.
in the wizard, there is a step you will be asked to use the pem file you downloaded.

Now from the left menu, click on the instances.
And click on the instance on the right pane and you will see another pane with description will be opened on the lower part. On that pane, search for security group and click the link
You will be transferred to the security group associated with that instance. Click on the “in bound” tab and check if SSH is listed there, if not, hit the ‘Edit’ button and add a new rule of SSH with the source of anywhere if you would like to ssh into your box from anywhere or you can specify particular ip address.

log to your instance from terminal as

ssh -i /your/downloaded/pem/file ec2-user@public-domain-goes-here

you will get your public domain on the instance you selected.

If you are using Elastic Beanstalk, it will come with installed apache server for as your webserver. Just restart it

sudo service httpd restart

MySQL shell would be there as well but not the mysql server so install that

sudo yum install -y mysql-server

And restart the demon

sudo service mysqld restart

I have checked if git is installed, if you are using any DCVS, which you should and it is installed already to verify do

git --version

Next would be the creation of your public and private keys for secure communication with the other servers.

ssh-agent -t rsa -b 4096 "your_email@domain.tld"

The above command will provide you with the public and private key that you would use. The default path for it would be on ~/.ssh/id_rsa and ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

If you are using github or bitbucket, you would need the content of the id_rsa.pub for logging to the server without password.

If you are going to use mongo just use the very information on the following links https://docs.mongodb.org/ecosystem/platforms/amazon-ec2/
http://www.liquidweb.com/kb/how-to-install-the-mongodb-php-driver-extension-on-centos-6/

This will get you started with your aws instance

Apache listing directory – I swear I have index file!

OK, the ultimate wisdom is you will put your index file on the webserver accessible directory and your website would be visible – right? Well, not all the time.
Apache might decide to list your files even though you put your index.php in the directory you are expecting..
The thing lies on the default configuration of your server. If the default http.conf file has the directory setting to list then it will list even in the virtual hosts.
The fix Add your DirectoryIndex

So typical .htaccess or your setting in http.conf file would look like

...you other configs
   DirectoryIndex index.php //or whatever you want it to start from 
....your other configs

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Installing Imagick on mac for php 54

Here is a step by step installation for imagick on mac

brew install ghostscript
brew install ImageMagic –with-ghostscript
sudo pecl install imagick

if you don’t have pecl
cd /usr/local
culr -0 http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar
sudo php -d detect_unicode=0 go-pear.phar
add extension=imagick.so to php.ini

restart webserver

Apache not executing PHP code – just renders the as it is

This is the issue when you are having a fresh install of apache usually.
You need to tell apache should handle the extensions so that it could process them accordingly.
On you apache path, go to the config and open the httpd.conf file
and add the following

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

Also, make sure the Module for php is installed as well..
in your httpd.conf file, search for:

#LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

and, of course, uncomment that to enable php.