Setting up an AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) and keeping your target groups healthy can sometimes throw a few curveballs. I recently ran into an issue where a Laravel application’s ELB Health Checks were consistently failing.
Amazon Web Services, Laravel, Load Balancer, PHPLet’s explore how to use .htaccess files to protect your .env file on Ubuntu servers running Apache.
Laravel, PHP, Security, Server ConfigurationWhen developing a new library in PHP, it’s sometimes useful to symlink the library into a project while you work on it. Find out how to update your Composer config to achieve this.
Composer, Development, PHP, TutorialAmazon makes it really easy to send SMS messages worldwide using their SNS or Simple Notification Service. This tutorial shows you how you can send a SMS in less than 10 lines of code. This particular example uses composer to install the AWS SDK.
Amazon Web Services, PHP, SMS, TutorialHaving a strong password policy for your application is a important security requirement for any application. This tutorial shows you how you can apply this to Larvel’s PasswordController, which handles password resets.
Input Sanitization, Laravel 5, Laravel 5.2, PHP, SecurityLaravel 5.2 is already good at sanitizing input data received from GET and POST data, but it doesn’t remove excessive spacing at the beginning or end of the data. Luckily, this is easy to achieve using Custom Middleware.
Input Sanitization, Laravel 5, Laravel 5.2, PHPRecently, I had to create a Laravel Artisan script that would log into a SFTP server, check if a certain file exists, and then upload / override the file. To achieve this, I used the SSH library from LaravelCollective. This tutorial covers how to log into a remote server using SSH / SFTP and upload or download files.
Laravel 5, PHP, SFTP, SSH
