Category: server

Quick Tip: LetsEncrypt “server” error fix on Ubuntu 16.04

I recently had to renew the HTTPS certificates for my server, and ran into trouble.The errors that the command sudo letsencrypt renew was spewing out were these: Processing /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/bitfalls.com.conf 2017-02-06 07:43:08,126:WARNING:letsencrypt.cli:Attempting to renew cert from /etc/letsencrypt/renew...

Modding Minecraft with PHP – Buildings from Code!

I’ve always wanted to make a Minecraft mod. Sadly, I was never very fond of re-learning Java, and that always seemed to be a requirement. Until recently. Thanks to dogged persistence, I’ve actually discovered a way to make Minecraft mods, without really knowing Java. There are a few tricks and caveats that ...

Setting up PHP 7 Servers with Laravel Forge and DigitalOcean

One of the most popular requests in our end-year reader-satisfaction survey was more PHP 7 content. In this quick guide, we’ll cover two ways to bring a PHP 7 server online on DigitalOcean – a popular VPS provider. We’ll use two approaches, the latter of which will be applicable to any Ubuntu installation whe...

Forms, File Uploads and Security with Node.js and Express

If you’re building a web application, you’re likely to encounter the need to build HTML forms on day one. They’re a big part of the web experience, and they can be complicated. Typically the form handling process involves:displaying an empty HTML form in response to an initial GET request user submitting the fo...

Build a Superfast PHP Server in Minutes with Icicle

Event-based programming is a strange topic for PHP developers. In a language as procedural; events are little more than function calls. Nothing happens between events, and all meaningful code is still blocking. Languages like JavaScript show us what PHP could be like if event loops were at the center. Some folks have t...

Appserver – a Production-ready PHP-based Server

It has been just over a year and a half since the team at TechDivisionGmbH were interviewed here on Sitepoint about their paradigm changing PHP application server system called appserver.io. At the time of the interview, appserver was just breaking out as an alpha. Since then, a lot has happened and appserver is now GA...