General tips Archives - Jean-Pierre Lambelet

MacOsx install php7.4 and force its use

April 29, 2026January 4, 2021 by Jean-Pierre Lambelet

Start by installing homebrew /bin/bash -c “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)” Next, use the following commands brew installs php@7.4 brew link –force php@7.4 brew services start php@7.4 export PATH”/usr/local/opt/php@7.4/bin:$PATH” export PATH”/usr/local/opt/php@7.4/sbin:$PATH” Once this is done, check that the PHP version is correct php -v PHP 7.4.13 (cli) (built: Nov 30 2020 14:46:04) ( NTS ) Copyright (c) … Read more

Install xdebug3 with Phpstorm on MacOs

April 29, 2026December 13, 2020 by Jean-Pierre Lambelet

MacBook Pro affichant un éditeur de code

For this example, we will use the Docker installation as well as the Symfony 5 setup described in another article: Article Docker, Symfony 5 Creating an alias for the IP used On MacOS, it is necessary to create an alias for the IP we use. It is common to use the IP: 10.254.254.254 The command … Read more

Installation of HTTPS on a Symfony5, Docker and Nginx system

April 29, 2026December 8, 2020 by Jean-Pierre Lambelet

Before you start, it is necessary to have followed the steps in the previous article. Creating the files needed for SSL To do this we will use a very handy tool: mkcert. It is a tool that allows you to create certificates that can be used locally without any configuration. To install mkcert, go to … Read more

Start a new Symfony5 project with docker-compose, Nginx , Php 7.4 and MariaDB

April 29, 2026November 30, 2020 by Jean-Pierre Lambelet

This article contains all the steps necessary to create a Symfony 5 project with docker-compose, nginx and PHP 7.4. File structure To start, we are going to need a docker folder that will contain all the necessary folders for each container. For our example, we will use nginx, php as well as MariaDB Once this … Read more

Nginx – phpmyadmin configuration as location next to a website

April 29, 2026January 30, 2020 by Jean-Pierre Lambelet

To start, install phpmyadmin at the desired location. compose create-project phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin I prefer to use composer, but there are other possibilities Once this is done, go in the folder /etc/nginx. To keep the configuration independent, it is possible to create a snippet. sudo nano snippets/phpmyadmin.conf Then the following configuration must be created. In this example … Read more

Xdebug installation with php 5.6 and Ubuntu

April 29, 2026July 25, 2017 by Jean-Pierre Lambelet

First of all you have to install the xdebug package for PHP 5.6 sudo apt-get install php-xdebug Then you have to enable it so it is accessible from PhpStorm for example Edit the file sudo nano /etc/php/5.6/mods-available/xdebug.ini and add the following lines xdebug.remote_enable xdebug.remote_connect_back xdebug.idekey – "vagrant" The PHP service needs to be restarted sudo … Read more

Docker: How to use XDebug with docker-compose

April 29, 2026September 13, 2016 by Jean-Pierre Lambelet

Docker In the docker-compose.yml file create an images/php image Import: build: images/php Ports: – 80:80 Volumes: – .. /..:/ var/www find your IP address (ifconfig / ipconfig) – in my example (10.1.0.133) Create a Dockerfile in the images/php folder FROM php:7.0.1-apache RUN yes pecl install -o -f xdebug rm -rf /tmp/pear "zend_extension/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20151012/xdebug.so" – /usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/xdebug.ini echo … Read more

Docker: How to use nano

April 29, 2026August 10, 2016 by Jean-Pierre Lambelet

To use nano in Docker, you have to update apt-get and install nano. When trying to open a file you may face the error Error opening terminal: unknown. No worries, just export the TERM=xterm variable apt-get update apt-get install nano export TERM-xterm

PHP – NGINX: How to pass the PHP_AUTH_USER and PHP_AUTH_PW variables

April 29, 2026July 22, 2016 by Jean-Pierre Lambelet

In the Nginx configuration, just add the configuration fastcgi_param $http-authorization if_not_empty HTTP_AUTHORIZATION; so that the authentication variables are filled in. On the PHP side, to retrieve them $username – $_SERVER[‘PHP_AUTH_USER’]; $password – $_SERVER[‘PHP_AUTH_PW’];

Git know which files will be changed before git pull

April 29, 2026July 15, 2016 by Jean-Pierre Lambelet

To know which files are going to be modified, you have to start by fetching the branches fetch git then to see the files git log -p HEAD.. origin and the differences (three dots, not two) git diff HEAD… origin