For ninkik I wanted to provide a subdomain for each of our customers. In addition to that, I wanted to use some other subdomains for static and dynamic content. At that moment I did explicitly not wanted to deal with microservices or multiple applications.When receiving a request, Spring should do Read more…
There are situations in which you want to use your own Artifactory server for resolving Maven dependencies. Maybe you have private artifacts or are not yet in the process of migrating from Artifactory to GitHub Packages. What is the goal of this blog post? This blog shows you how you Read more…
Sophos’ access points are very sensitive with PoE enabled cable connections. If your access point gets disconnected, disable PoE for the given Ethernet port. As a long time reader of my blog, you might know that I am struggling a lot with curious issues like broken L2TP/IPSec VPN connections. This Read more…
When WordPress keeps showing the installation screen after having installed WordPress, you have to check if the database tables of your WordPress installation do exist and are accessible. if you are missing permissions for your database tables. if your database tables are corrupted. Do you have every been presented with Read more…
Opening a Microsoft Word documents can be extremly slow if the document uses a template (.dotx) which is no longer available. A tool like Word Template Corrector can automatically fix the template location of one or multiple Word (.docx) files. The reason why the opening of Word documents is slow Read more…
A few years ago, I stumbled upon the same issue with Windows 7 and already blogged about it. But the error “The user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer.” can still occur in Windows 10 when accessing network resources like shared folders. The reason for Read more…
Inside a native Linux environment the error UNPROTECTED KEY FILE always means that the permissions of private key file are way too open. The error usually occurs if you are trying to connect with SSH and a private key to a remote host. As Ansible does also use SSH, you Read more…
A few months ago I had a strange behaviour: Sometimes the L2TP/IPSec connection between my workstation at home and our company VPN silently failed. After clicking on the VPN connection icon in the tasktray it only showed Connecting to… and stopped working after 60 seconds. The VPN connection status did Read more…
Most of the time you are doing local web development without HTTPS and self-signed certificates but good-ol’ plain HTTP. For security and SEO reasons, HTTPS should be enabled in your production environment all the time. One important requirement for production environments is, that every incoming plain HTTP request has to Read more…
Shortly after I had started the work on nerdhood.de I built a deployment pipeline. The bash-based build script for my Laravel application was easy but triggering the deployment itself turned out to be more difficult than expected. In the end I built something with two AWS Lambda function, SNS, an Read more…