Elliot J. Reed

Running Magento 2 in Docker with Docker-Compose

If you're in the web development industry or the e-commerce industry, you've probably heard of Magento. Magento is essentially the power-house of shopping cart solutions, it is very feature-rich and extendible. Now it has been a few years since I've used Magento as a platform. This is due to more …

Backup and restore MySQL / MariaDB database from Docker container

To backup / make a dump of a MySQL / MariaDB database within a Docker container, just run: docker exec DATABASECONTAINER /usr/bin/mysqldump -u DATABASEUSER --password=DATABASEPASSWORD DATABASE > backup.sql To restore a MySQL / MariaDB database from the mysqldump: cat backup.sql | docker exec -i DATABASECONTAINER /usr/bin/mysql -u …

Force WWW or non-WWW in PHP and optionally force HTTPS

It is good for SEO to stick to either www or non-www. Normally you can force this with Apache using the virtual host configuration or a .htaccess file, for example: Force www using .htaccess RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$ RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTPS}s ^on(s)| RewriteRule …

Remove all Docker containers, volumes, networks, and images

If you are like me and play around a lot with Docker, you will probably end up with a lot of containers, networks, volumes, and images in your system which you don't need. Here's a quick guide on how to remove these. By using xargs --no-run-if-empty we can prevent Docker …

Stream videos and audio from your Linux PC to your Amazon Fire TV

Learn how to play videos on your Linux desktop on your Fire TV / Fire TV Stick. All you need on the Fire TV is the VLC app, which is free and generally really good. Just go to 'Apps' on your Fire TV and install VLC, we'll come back to this …