As part of an ongoing experiment with kubernetes and lots of WordPress instances I wanted to set up a site that talked to an Amazon RDS MySQL database. The unknown part was how to do this over SSL using the WordPress docker image...
Is there a way to use variables in an Apache config file? Specifically for the port number in a `VirtualHost` block? The answer is, kind of...
Is it possible to renew a Let's Encrypt certificate and drop one or more domains at the same time? Yes it is.
For reasons that perhaps make up another blog post, my primary development machine these days is an old Macbook Pro running Windows 10. I alternate between a Microsoft Sculpt keyboard and the laptop keyboard itself depending on where I'm working. Windows let's you switch between keyboard layouts exactly for this kind of setup using a handy icon in the system tray.
Part of my day job involves picking apart SIP packets and figuring out why things might not be happening as expected. I've only recently tried out `sngrep` as a tool to help with this and it's ace.