Web Server on AMI Linux 2
Welcome in 2019 – it’s time to upgrade out outdated LAMP stack series articles, with new “How To” setup basic web server for our stack.
Technologies
HTML5 Video tag, and webm
In ancient times, when youtube was born, we didn’t have a VIDEO tag. We used to have Flash. To play video on the website, we had to convert it to weird Flash video format, leave mp4 for safety and hope that everything would work fine. Later on, when HTML5 became an industry standard, our lives became much easier.
In theory, VIDEO tag solves all our issues. When the browser can handle webm (Chrome family) we play webm.
PHP returning wrong date
From time to time we are working on small campaigns, where competition starts at given time. Because in Australia we have “so many” timezones, it’s critical to set things correctly according to the time zone.
iframe won’t display content..
There is a website, with iframe. I frame source is correct, but won’t display content of the website. No visible errors. There only small detail in the console:
Load denied by X-Frame-Options: https://... does not permit cross-origin framing. Some crazy admin figure out that it’s going to be better… and put some crazy code into headers:
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGINX-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=blockX-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Solution: talk to the hand, because admin won’t listen ;P
Australian postcode to state conversion
list of Australian postcodes by the state
I recently worked on a project with a super dull address form. I figured out that we need to help poor users fill tedious forms, so I made a little code snippet/function which gets the postcode and returns the state. I took postcode ranges from wikipedia , so blame them if something isn’t working as expected.