Updated - Vagrant on Windows path limit fix
Improved Vagrant and Puppet scripts for hosting Linux VMs on Windows.
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Using the MEAN stack on Windows with PuPHPet
Lately I've been playing with Vagrant and Puppet to create virtual machines for local MEAN stack development.
Relative paths in PHP INI
Improve the portability of your code from server-to-server with environment variables in your PHP INI.
Microsoft Office Link Pre-fetching and Single Sign-On
I updated a site to use Single Sign-On (SSO) capability, specifically with Shibboleth, and was shocked to discover that links to the site in Microsoft Office files stopped working. After thorough troubleshooting I found a workaround.
Don't host on a .255 IP address
Not all IP addresses are created equal.
Hosting PHP on IIS7
Running PHP sites on Internet Information Services (IIS) is easy! And with a few extra steps, you can achieve a versatile and extensible setup to avoid management headaches down the line. Follow this guide to add PHP functionality to your IIS server and avoid common mistakes.