Blog by Aniruddha

Say you want to install SimpleSAMLphp in windows Apache/Xampp. Let me tell you what I did so far: I have downloaded latest stable version from  https://simplesamlphp.org/download  and placed the unzipped file in Apache folder, i.e. C:\Apache24\simplesamlphp directory contains composer.json. I have downloaded dependencies as well. Now when I am going to setup the vhost as shows in the site 6. Configuring Apache section as <VirtualHost *:80 > ServerName localhost DocumentRoot C:/Apache24/htdocs <VirtualHost *:80 > ServerName service.example.com DocumentRoot C:/Apache24/service.example.com Alias /simplesaml C:/Apache24/simplesamlphp/www Changed the config file Now I faced the problem: I am unable to open the Alias in browser. And running httpd.exe in browser shows error about the example.com does not exist. Later I found that I was doing some mistake... I am going to add one vhost, rather in Windows Xampp, t

I want to add successive crons via puppet, first one to set as each 10 minutes, and the 2nd one to run in Sunday 7:00PM. The first cron in puppet is working properly, but the 2nd one shows the below error: "Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Invalid relationship: Cron[notifyinactivetargetweekly] { require => File[...notifyinactivetargetweekly.sh] }, because File[...notifyinactivetargetweekly.sh] doesn't seem to be in the catalog Warning: Not using cache on failed catalog Error: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run" Below are the manifest code. cron { 'firstsynccron': command => "${phpapp::DocRootDir}/firstcronsync.sh ${scmdemophp::Environment} ${phpapp::DocRootDir}", require => File["${phpapp::DocRootDir}/firstcronsync.sh"], minute => '*/10', environment=>["COMPOSER_HOME=${phpapp::DocRootDir}", "SYMFONY_ENV=${phpapp::Envi

According to wikipedia, COMPOSER is an application-level package manager for PHP, and we will learn few more features about it. Download & Setup Windows : Download and run  Composer-Setup.exe Preferred way: Know your PHP version open cmd or gitbash and run php –v Prepare a shell script/bat file (composersetup.sh/composersetup.bat) Content of the shell script executable are: php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');" php -r "if (hash_file('SHA384', 'composer-setup.php') === '544e09ee996cdf60ece3804abc52 599c22b1f40f4323403c44d44fdfdd586475ca9813a858088ffbc1f233e9b180f061’) { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt’; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;" php composer-setup.php php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');" Perhaps you noticed the php execution statement is in blue color. Whats in it?