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Tips & Tricks : CentOS firewalld : open port

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Once you install CentOS 7, by default firewalld will block almost all network traffic.

In order to open ports for certain services you can easily reconfigure firewall using firewall-cmd command.

[root@localhost firewalld]# firewall-cmd --get-active-zones
public
  interfaces: eno16777728
[root@localhost firewalld]# firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=80/tcp --permanent
success
[root@localhost firewalld]# firewall-cmd --reload
success

Example contains port 80, however you can open any port using same method.
It is worth to check zones configured on your machine and make sure you open port in proper zone where service should be enabled.

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Tips & Tricks : Change location of Box Sync folder

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Once you have installed Box Sync and before logging into Sync , set the folder location in the registry key:
  1. Open Registry Edit by going to the Start menu and searching for regedit.
  2. In the left pane, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > BOX > BoxSync
  3. In the right menu, right-click and select New > String Value. Name this new value SyncRootFolder.
  4. Right-click the newly created SyncRootFolder value, select Modify, and set the Value data to the required path. End the path with the name of the new Sync folder. 

Important is also to change shortcut, which appears in Windows Explorer tree. In order to point it to new folder:

  1. Open Registry Edit by going to the Start menu and searching for regedit.
  2. In the left pane, navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT > CLSID > {4A8FCD9F-623C-4283-96F0-10F41846A98A} > Instance > InitPropertyBag
  3. In the right menu, double-click on TargetFolderPath and enter new location for Box Sync files.

 

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Tips & Tricks : Installing PHP Xdebug on openSUSE from existing repo

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While using PhpStorm I tried to use remote PHP interpreter on my dev virtual machine. As I’m big openSUSE fan and user I have openSUSE Leap 42.1 as my development machine. Unfortunately there is no Xdebug for PHP distributed by default.

However, there is repository available, so it’s easy to add this missing component to my system.

Here is how…

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Tips & Tricks : Migrating Mozilla Thunderbird settings between computers

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If you have to move Mozilla Thunderbird data from one computer to another, you can do it by simply copying files between computer.

Folder with Thunderbird profiles is located here:

%APPDATA%\Thunderbird\Profiles\

There will be at least one or more sub-folders with profile data.

What you need to copy is content of Thunderbird profile you want to migrate to new computer.

On destination computer install Thunderbird and in same folder there will be sub-folder with default profile.

Copy all file from source profile to destination and that’s it.

In case you want to create Thunderbird profile in different folder start Thunderbird with following command:

thunderbird -p

That will allow you to define location of the new profile.

How that helps with migrating Thunderbird between folders/drives or computers.

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Tips & Tricks : Introduction to Laravel : Free coding tools

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In previous articles:

we created and published web project.

Now it’s time to try to do some development and modify out-of-the-box project to create our own application.

Question is what tools should we use to start code development.

You might want to have a look at two available for free:

Sublime Text

Download from: http://www.sublimetext.com

Sublime Text

Visual Studio Code

Download from: http://code.visualstudio.com

Visual Studio Code


Both apps can highlight syntax for PHP-based code, so both can be used for development purposes with Laravel web application.

Check them and decide which one will be better fit for you.