I’ve spent the last couple of evenings playing around with some Hello World-type stuff for Facebook app development in preparation for an up-coming Facebook/Rails gig. After creating a new app on Facebook, you are presented with the code for a basic starter-page for the app: ...
Ratproxy is a passive web application security assessment tool released by Google. Basically you set it up as a proxy server between yourself and the target site, and then click around in the target site doing whatever it is you normally do, while ratproxy analyzes your activity in the background and looks for security holes. ...
I just spent 30 minutes trying to get login via public key working on a new server, and here’s a few tips that I wish I knew earlier : ...
First, we need to get the latest version of nginx : > wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-0.8.34.tar.gz > tar xvzf nginx-0.8.34.tar.gz > cd nginx-0.8.34 Next, configure it to support ssl, gzip, flv streaming and real-ip. I generally compile it to /opt/nginx-YYMMDD (change the –prefix setting if you want to put it somewhere else) : ...
To find out if Ubuntu is 32 bit or 64 bit, run uname : uname -m x86_64 = 64 bit i686 = 32 bit
I keep having to look this up to add multiverse repositories (courtesy of tuxicity). ...
Recently I had a bit of trouble getting {{ “github.com/aanand/git-up” | ext_link: “git-up”}} to work on Ubuntu (or anywhere else for that matter), so here’s some of the steps I had to go through. Initially ubuntu seems to have RubyGems 1.01 and 1.2.0 installed : > gem --version 1.2.0 >/usr/bin/gem1.8 --version 1.2.0 >/usr/bin/gem1.9 --version 1.0.1 ...
I haven’t used ruby for a while, but recently wanted to try out {{ “github.com/aanand/git-up” | ext_link: “git-up”}} on OSX. According to the {{ “github.com/aanand/git-up/blob/master/README.md” | ext_link: “instructions”}}, a simple gem install git-up should work : > sudo gem install git-up Updating metadata for 1 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org . complete ERROR: could not find git-up locally or in a repository I assume this is something to do with gem hosting moving to github or something… I haven’t really been following ruby for a year or so so I’m not sure exactly what’s going on. It seems i’m running a pretty old version of RubyGems, so I tried to update : ...
If you’re getting 413 Request Entity Too Large errors trying to upload with {{ “nginx.net/” | ext_link: “Nginx”}}, you need to increase the size limit in nginx.conf . Add ‘client_max_body_size xxM’ inside the server section, where xx is the size (in megabytes) that you want to allow. http { include mime.types; default_type application/octet-stream; sendfile on; keepalive_timeout 65; server { client_max_body_size 20M; listen 80; server_name localhost; # Main location location / { proxy_pass http://127....
If you’re getting missing separator errors in your makefile, similar to the following : Makefile:22: *** missing separator. Stop. … make sure you are using real tabs instead of spaces. A global search and replace for four-spaces should fix things up.