Content Tagged "server"

So, after the CentOS news , I went on to search another release-based distribution. The obvious choice now is Ubuntu server (20.04 LTS at the time of writing). Here are my steps to install the server on VMWare ESXi Prerequisites First, you have to download the ISO: Go to the site Select to…

TL;DR : User the server's IP address, not its (local) name. Once the sever is configured , it's time to add it to your account. To do that, you need to open the server in the browser. Unfortunately, Plex doesn't work very well with names (mdns). My server was named cinema.home.lan . I could set it…

An application I'm working with has a large amount of static files (path starting with '/files/' ) deployed on a mounted volume in Docker . They are subsequently served via nginx . for local development, I thought of two options: Add files to the local dev server (e.g. copy assets) Build a proxy…

Disclaimer: This is a log of my journey developing an electron app. I'm working at a small electron app and I was experimenting with webpack-dev-server , so I can try to do live reloads. First, I've started the app as a web app (no electron dependencies whatsoever). At this stage, running: off…

The other day I've had a question asked: How do you send a form data to a server and get the reply? My solution involves python-requests : r.text contains the reply HTML page, which then needs to be processed via e.g. python's DOM processing module or BeautifulSoup (if you're looking for…