I recently updated my server to run last Debian version and faced an error I never encountered before with Nginx and PHP-FPM. Because of the mass update in software version, I suspected something really nasty and used everything I can to fix a simple typo, thanks to unexplicit error message.

Brut force or enumeration attack are not limited to login form. An easy way to fix this is to rate limit usage of your application. There are many solution out there to achieve that, in this post I show you how to do it with Symfony rate limiter component. I will also show you how to protect your server with long running task to avoid server overwhelming.

In previous post, I show how to manage indices in Elasticsearch using elasticsearch-php library. In this post, I will show how to index document with this library.

I already wrote on this blog about elasticsearch-php library maintained by Elastic, the firm that created Elasticsearch. It's my first choice when I need to add Elasticsearch to a project. This library wrap the whole REST API of Elasticsearch including indices management and this is the subject of this post. How to manage indices with elasticsearch-php.

Behat is a well known test behavior framework, used on many project. I always used it to validate webpage or API behavior. In this blog post, I will show you how to setup Behat to use it for testing Symfony command.

Install software on Debian or Ubuntu is very easy with .deb package file. But sometimes dependencies can't be resolved and software install failed. Most of the time it's possible to fix this issue by editing the dependencies list. Because command are long and ambigous I propose here an Ansible role to achieve it.

One of my first articles on this blog dealt with backing up MySQL databases on a production server. Today, I offer you a variation of this article and the script to save your PC or development server (mysql, svn, git).

To change a small snippet on Doctrine 2 ORM to learn how to handle parentheses in the WHERE clause of an SQL query.

My first reminder of the blog: how to unban an IP that Fail2Ban wrongly banned. This happens to me a lot right now and I never remember the exact command line to reauthorize an IP.

When database queries are slow a good approach is to use EXPLAIN to get the execution plan of the queries. But the result is not always obvious. In this post I show you how I use EXPLAIN to solve a real performance issue.