How to force https on IIS webiste?

Edit web.config file in your website directory and carefully add this lines (remember to change domain name):


File: web.config
----------------

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <rewrite>
            <rules>
                <rule name="Force HTTPS" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^(.*)$" />
                    <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
                        <add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="^OFF$" />
                    </conditions>
                    <action type="Redirect" url="https://website.com/{R:1}" />
                </rule>
            </rules>
        </rewrite>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>

Brutal fix for “Incorrect string value:” error in Matomo (Piwik)

If you’re using Matomo (previously Piwik) on MS IIS and MariaDB  and you’re getting a lot of these:

[06-Jun-2018 11:56:36 UTC] Error in Matomo (tracker): Error query: SQLSTATE[22007]: Invalid datetime format: 1366 Incorrect string value: '\xC3_\xC6\x92\xC3\x82...' for column 'name' at row 1 In query: INSERT INTO matomo_log_action (name, hash, type, url_prefix) VALUES (?,CRC32(?),?,?) Parameters: array (   0 => 'website.com/Ă_ƒÂ¢',   1 => 'website.com/Ă_ƒÂ¢',   2 => 1,   3 => 1, )

You can use my fix (because literally nothing that can be found in the internet is helpful in this case).

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Backup script for PostgreSQL with zip support (Windows)

Simplest solution for backing up PostgreSQL databases. With this bat file you can dump one database to a file and compress it using 7-zip.

PS. If you want a date in your filename simply add %date% var to it’s string.
PS2. Of course check your paths before complaining it does not work 😛

@echo off
:: Global config
SET PG_BIN="C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.6\bin\pg_dump.exe"
SET PG_HOST=localhost
SET PG_PORT=5432
SET PG_PATH="C:\inetpub\temporary_backups"
SET ZIP_BIN="C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe"

:: Database config for 
SET PG_DATABASE=your_database_name
SET PG_USER=your_database_user
SET PGPASSWORD=youe_database_password

SET PG_FILENAME=%PG_PATH%\%PG_DATABASE%_postgres.sql
%PG_BIN% -h %PG_HOST% -p %PG_PORT% -U %PG_USER% %PG_DATABASE% > "%PG_FILENAME%"
%ZIP_BIN% a "%PG_FILENAME:~0,-4%.zip" "%PG_FILENAME%" &DEL "%PG_FILENAME%"

@echo Backup Taken Complete %PG_PATH%%PG_FILENAME%

E-mail extraction from an Outlook copied string

Sometimes you need to extract an e-mail address from a format like this:

Name Surname <[email protected]>

In such cases use this function:

/**
 * Extract mail address from a string
 * 
 * @param string $emailString
 * @return mixed match on success, false on error
 */
function extractEmail( $emailString ) {
    /** @var string $result **/
    $result = preg_match( '/^(?:[\w.\- ]+<)?([\w._-][email protected][\da-z\.-]+\.[a-z\.]{2,6})>?$/iu', $emailString, $matches );
                               
    if( $result === 1 || $result !== false ) {
        return $matches[1];
    } else {
        return false;
    }      
}

Link to test regular expression used by me is here.

A MAN LEARNS THROUGHOUT HIS WHOLE LIFE

If you’re a fan of Firefox (mainly because it’s an awesome tool for webdevelopment) like me. You should already know that there’s an additional console for developers (I’ve did not until five minutes ago). When you press Shift + F2 it shows little input bar on the bottom of the window. For example type the following command :

screenshot --clipboard --fullpage

Press Enter and BANG! Screenshot of a entire page in your MEMORY!

Mother of God… This is so awesome!

PS. Try different commands, you can use Tab for completion and help to list them all.

How to unfreeze KDE’s plasmashell?

I’m using Debian 9.4 and this freaking KDE5 is freezing very often! What you can do when your desktop stops responding? Restart computer? Use ALT+CTRL+F1…12? Nah! There’s a better solution!

Simply edit your  ~/.bash_aliases:

nano ~/.bash_aliases

And append to it:

alias restart-plasma='kquitapp5 plasmashell && kstart plasmashell'

Now whenever your plasma desktop starts trolling you, go to your console and type restart-plasma voilà! Dezombified!

PS. Use tilda to open console in every shitty situation you’ll get into! Simply press F12 and you’ll get nice Quake like terminal.

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