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Certainly the most convenient way to develop a Symfony 5.x app is to use the symfony server. Eventually however, you may have to deploy the application. For a number of years nginx with php-fpm was the preference for many sysadmins seeking to wring the maximum performance out of a webserver that also has to run php scripts, but there are now simple ways of configuring apache to use php-fpm while achieving comparable performance to nginx.

For example a vhost setting like this one is possible:

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Having backed Fabien Potencier's "Symfony 5: The Fast Track" book on Kickstarter, I received the book a few weeks ago, and had a chance over the weekend to start reading it.

As a Macbook/OSX user, his recommended environment includes a current locally installed version of PHP with a number of php extension libraries. You also need installation of the php standard composer tool, as well as docker. As I have a Macbook running OSX Mojave, I had to take a number of steps to be able to get started following the book and getting a working installation of the guestbook project using the book's recipe. Here's what I did:

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So you have a private Bitbucket Repo and you want to utilize it in your project composer.json. You may find that when you run the composer install you get an error pulling your private Bitbucket repo with messages about Oauth failure that may include "Invalid OAuth consumer provided"

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The free open source Atom text editor from Github is one of several development tools that have gotten a lot of traction in recent years amongst web technology developers looking for an alternative to the big IDE's like Visual Studio, Eclipse or the JetBrains editors.

Atom is aimed at the same niche often filled by Sublime Text, Vim and Notepad++, namely to provide a small self contained code editor able to work on multiple files at a time, and with available plugins that provide programming features like color syntax highlighting, smart indentation and robust search and replace.

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AWS provides a REST Api to everything they offer, and returns the results in Json format. If you have a server in a private network in a VPC, you might want to get the logs to see what happened at boot time, and the aws cli gives you a simple way of doing that:

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Allmark is a simple self contained Markdown html renderer and server from developer Andreas Koch, that is written in Go.

You could certainly install Allmark locally, but there are numerous editors or standalone operating system specific markdown parsers you could use.

But what if you have some markdown documentation on a server, and need a quick and easy way to access that documentation? You can always just look at the raw markdown using vim, but what fun is that?

Allmark is a full markdown server, but installing a server just to read a couple of markdown documents is something very few people would want to do. If however, your server has docker installed, you can be reading your documentation in all its rendered glory in a matter of a few seconds. Here is how:

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