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Virtual Hosts on nginx (CSC309)

When hosting our web applications, we often have one public IP address (i.e., an IP address visible to the outside world) using which we want to host multiple web apps. For example, one may wants to host three different web apps respectively for example1.com, example2.com, and example1.com/images on the same machine using a single IP address.

How can we do that? Well, the good news is Internet browsers

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Docker - How to cleanup (unused) resources

Once in a while, you may need to cleanup resources (containers, volumes, images, networks) ...

delete volumes

// see: https://github.com/chadoe/docker-cleanup-volumes

$ docker volume rm $(docker volume ls -qf dangling=true)

$ docker volume ls -qf dangling=true | xargs -r docker volume rm

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#!/bin/sh

# Make sure to:
# 1) Name this file `backup.sh` and place it in /home/ubuntu
# 2) Run sudo apt-get install awscli to install the AWSCLI
# 3) Run aws configure (enter s3-authorized IAM user and specify region)
# 4) Fill in DB host + name
# 5) Create S3 bucket for the backups and fill it in below (set a lifecycle rule to expire files older than X days in the bucket)
# 6) Run chmod +x backup.sh
# 7) Test it out via ./backup.sh

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var path = require('path');

module.exports = (function () {
  return path.dirname(require.main.filename || process.mainModule.filename);
})();

// Example of usage:
var rootPath = require('rootPath'); // In root will be absolute path to your application

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tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

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Script that will trigger a local to remote sync when any changes below your local Google Drive folder occur - but at max. every 10 minutes - and a remote to local sync every x (e.g. 30 minutes) via a cron job.

0. Install rclone and configure it for Google Drive
1. Create files listed below
2. Configure rclone_watch_local.sh to be run on startup (e.g. using a systemd service unit)
3. Add a cron job that runs rclone_remote2local.sh every x (e.g. 30) minutes

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rclone_local2remote.sh
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Handling Errors

Express.js makes it a breeze to handle errors in your routes.

Express lets you centralizes your error-handling through middleware.

Let's look at patterns for how to get the most out of your error-handling.

First, our error-handling middleware looks like this:

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Common Options

-#, --progress-bar Make curl display a simple progress bar instead of the more informational standard meter.

-b, --cookie <name=data> Supply cookie with request. If no =, then specifies the cookie file to use (see -c).

-c, --cookie-jar <file name> File to save response cookies to.