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Chris 8 February 201629 April 2016Guides Tips & TricksCLI, cron, cron job, crontab, linux, shell, ssh Leave a comment

Create A Cron Job To Execute Shell File

Recently, a client of mine running eCommerce on WordPress was faced with a bit of a dilemma. Due to a plugin conflict, their error log file grows at a staggering rate, eventually consuming all available disk space and crashing their site. I know as a developer, my first step when they reached out to me was to check the error logs. The first time I checked, the log file was over 80GB! Let’s talk a bit more about the setup … Continue reading “Create A Cron Job To Execute Shell File”

Chris 30 December 201529 April 2016Guides Tips & TricksCLI, composer, dreamhost, laravel, laravel 5, linux, phar, php, php 5.6 4 Comments

Installing Laravel 5 on Dreamhost VPS

Laravel has great documentation which is only one reason I love working with it so much. With that said, it has some dependencies that require a bit of research and configuration to get it installed. With a little bit of trial and error (and Google) I was able to get it set up. The issues that I had were mostly because of the host, not Laravel itself. Others may not have the same issue that I had, but I’ll walk … Continue reading “Installing Laravel 5 on Dreamhost VPS”