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So, the Info.php on Your New Apache Install is Blank
You’re doing a fresh LAMP install on your sweet Ubuntu rig. Apache is up and running and you just installed PHP. You create an info.php page in /var/www/html and fire it up. It’s blank! Before we get...
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When Your WordPress Site Throws a 404 on Viewing Posts
Real quick post that may help someone. It won’t help me because I seem to hit this while testing my first WordPress Site on every new server and I have the fix down cold. The latest reminder was on the...
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Displaying Java Web App Images in Tomcat with Apache Proxy
I was stumped by my NixMashupLinks Java site favicon.ico not displaying, but there were more important issues to attend to in getting the site up so I moved on. But when I added a simple image tag in a...
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WWW to non-WWW Urls in Java Web Apps
There are a lot of guides out there on how to perform 301 Redirects from WWW to non-WWW urls (and vice versa) for straight HTML and PHP sites. We Java App developers don’t have the luxury of putting a...
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Securing Your Public Solr Server
I use Solr for searching on NixMashupLinks.com, so I needed to make the http://solr.site.com server available on my Linode Public Server. I created a subdomain for it, which is cool, but there’s an...
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Deploying Your Spring Boot WAR Application
This is a can I kicked down the road for a few weeks until I learned how to build and launch a Spring WAR application on a public-facing server. I never found a definitive guide for how to do this, so...
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Solr and Tomcat Upgrade Checklist
I’m in the happy position of running the most current releases of Solr and Tomcat on my Linode Virtual Ubuntu Server. Not only that, but my public server is now identical to my development environment...
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Passing Arguments to Spring Boot
The subject of this post may sound pretty dull, but here’s the scenario which makes it interesting. We’re using Spring Social and need to set an ApplicationUrl property on our ProviderSignInController...
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The Case of the Spring Boot CSS Folder 404
I reconfigured NixMash Spring to serve up static web content from /resources/static rather than a separate /webapp project folder. Under /resources/static were css, js, fonts and img folders. After...
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Easy SSL Encryption with Certbot
If you're reading this post on NixMash.com and look up to the address bar you'll see a lovely Secure designation and a web address starting with https://. When I began investigating how to add SSL to...
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