Setting up Laravel, PHPStorm and Xdebug

You have created and run your Laravel application. Let’s imagine you have discovered that it functions not the way you expected. For example, it returns a wrong value or crashes with an exception. Seems like you have errors in your code, and it’s time to debug it. I’ll walk you through the steps to setup […]

Adding ESLint to your Laravel Mix configuration

What is ESLint? ESLint is a tool for identifying and reporting on patterns found in ECMAScript/JavaScript code, with the goal of making code more consistent and avoiding bugs. In this setup guide i’ll walk through steps required to configure ESLint in Laravel mix. Although the guide assumes Vue projects, similar steps will work for any […]

Setting folder permissions and ownership for Laravel projects

If the web server is running as different user / group, change www-data accordingly.

Validate SSL certificate with the Private Key

To valid a SSL certificate with the private key, follow the 3 steps below. I have the SSL certificate shahalpk.name.crt and the private key shahalpk.name.key.

MySQL slave log corrupted? Here’s how to fix it.

MySQL slave relay log corruption is one of the primary reason for the below replication error. Although the error could mean a master log corruption, in my case, it was due to maxed out disk usage in slave machine. Even if you’re not sure, below solution is non-destructive.

Linux Pro Tip: Analyzing disk usage

A short guide to few of my favorite tools for analyzing disk usage.