HOW TO : Use curl to connect to a Unix socket
Today I learned a incredibly useful trick for debugging web applications that don’t use standard TCP/IP networking. While we usually think of curl as a tool...
Linux
HOW TO : Launch tmux on SSH login
I’m terrible at remembering to start tmux when I SSH into servers. Then invariably, my connection drops mid-compile or during a long-running test, and I lose...
HOW TO : Configure nginx for WordPress permalinks
Over the last week, I moved this blog from a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack to LEMP (Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP) stack. Have a blog...
HOW TO : Query varnishlogs to show backend server
Command parameters for varnishlog to view the backend server that is processing the request. In this particular case, I wanted to see the request URL and...
HOW TO : Capture ftp passwords using tcpdump
On a server that is running either the FTP client on server, you can capture the ftp password using tcpdump by tcpdump -A port ftp
HOW TO : Search for multiple words in a string using grep
Just for my records grep “WORD\|ANOTHER\|NEITHER” string searches for either “WORD” or “ANOTHER” or “NEITHER” in string.