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@kentbrew
kentbrew / node-on-ec2-port-80.md
Last active February 4, 2024 19:14
How I Got Node.js Talking on EC2's Port 80

The Problem

Standard practices say no non-root process gets to talk to the Internet on a port less than 1024. How, then, could I get Node talking on port 80 on EC2? (I wanted it to go as fast as possible and use the smallest possible share of my teeny tiny little micro-instance's resources, so proxying through nginx or Apache seemed suboptimal.)

The temptingly easy but ultimately wrong solution:

Alter the port the script talks to from 8000 to 80:

}).listen(80);
@jacobian
jacobian / models.py
Created February 15, 2011 18:11
An example of using many-to-many "through" to augment m2m relationships. See http://www.quora.com/How-do-you-query-with-a-condition-on-a-ManyToMany-model-in-Django for context.
from django.db import models
class Person(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=200)
groups = models.ManyToManyField('Group', through='GroupMember', related_name='people')
class Meta:
ordering = ['name']
def __unicode__(self):
@stefanfoulis
stefanfoulis / findauthors.sh
Created April 8, 2011 12:37
How to sync svn to git
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Run this script inside a SVN checkout of the project
authors=$(svn log -q | grep -e '^r' | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "|" } ; { print $2 }' | sort | uniq)
for author in ${authors}; do
echo "${author} = NAME <USER@DOMAIN>";
@mikeyk
mikeyk / redis_session_backend.py
Created April 8, 2011 18:01
A redis backend for Django Sessions, tested on Django 1.3+
from django.contrib.sessions.backends.base import SessionBase, CreateError
from django.conf import settings
from django.utils.encoding import force_unicode
import redis
class SessionStore(SessionBase):
""" Redis store for sessions"""
def __init__(self, session_key=None):
self.redis = redis.Redis(
@mtigas
mtigas / gist:952344
Last active April 3, 2024 07:57
Mini tutorial for configuring client-side SSL certificates.

Client-side SSL

For excessively paranoid client authentication.


Updated Apr 5 2019:

because this is a gist from 2011 that people stumble into and maybe you should AES instead of 3DES in the year of our lord 2019.

some other notes:

@fwielstra
fwielstra / api.js
Created June 14, 2011 14:46
An example NodeJS / Mongoose / Express application based on their respective tutorials
/* The API controller
Exports 3 methods:
* post - Creates a new thread
* list - Returns a list of threads
* show - Displays a thread and its posts
*/
var Thread = require('../models/thread.js');
var Post = require('../models/post.js');
@timmyomahony
timmyomahony / nginx.conf
Created June 26, 2011 13:29
Python, UWSGI, Supervisor & Nginx
upstream uwsgi {
ip_hash;
server 127.0.0.1:40000;
}
server {
listen 80;
server_name www.domain.com;
root /sites/mysite/;
access_log /sites/mysite/log/nginx/access.log;
@un33k
un33k / sed cheatsheet
Created August 22, 2011 13:28
magic of sed -- find and replace "text" in a string or a file
FILE SPACING:
# double space a file
sed G
# double space a file which already has blank lines in it. Output file
# should contain no more than one blank line between lines of text.
sed '/^$/d;G'
@mhawksey
mhawksey / gist:1170597
Created August 25, 2011 13:02
Google Apps Script to fill in a Document template with Spreadsheet data
function onOpen() {
var menuEntries = [ {name: "Create Diary Doc from Sheet", functionName: "createDocFromSheet"}];
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
ss.addMenu("Fitness Diaries", menuEntries);
}
function createDocFromSheet(){
var templateid = "1O4afl8SZmMxMFpAiN16VZIddJDaFdeRBbFyBtJvepwM"; // get template file id
var FOLDER_NAME = "Fitness Diaries"; // folder name of where to put completed diaries
// get the data from an individual user
@jonashaag
jonashaag / 0-howto-listfield-django-admin.rst
Created September 7, 2011 09:41
Howto use ListFields in Django's admin

Howto use ListFields in Django's admin

Problem

Consider this blog post model:

models.py