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Simple Event Attendance has been updated to 1.5.1.
This is to fix an issue with PHP7.2 where debug logs contain a count function warning:
Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/simple-event-attendance/seatt_events_include.php on line 103The few lines where this was a problem were updated to check if the variable was empty. See changelog on the PHP count function spec.
If you’re using a CNAME on your root domain, you’re gonna have problems. That’s just a DNS thing – and if you want to host a root domain on S3, you won’t be provided with an IP address by AWS. You can solve this if you use Route53, but what about if you want to keep your domain in Cloudflare?
You’ll also have problems if you want to use Cloudflare Full SSL on an S3 bucket configured for static website hosting – resulting in nothing but Cloudflare error 522 (Connection timed out) pages.
My use case is a set of simple redirects, following on from a post about 301 redirects in S3.
The easy solution to both problems is to use CloudFront to serve https requests for your bucket; but I’m going to assume that you want this solution to be as cheap as possible – and use only S3 from within the AWS ecosystem.
Continue reading “Using your own domain with AWS S3 and Cloudflare”S3 buckets allow you to host static content with a pay-per-get model. No monthly fees and no servers – so I considered how I could use this to redirect a limited number of URLs from an old website to a new site.
It couldn’t be a straight forward as the URLs aren’t the same (so using a CNAME, domain forward, or the S3 Redirect requests options were out), but I wanted to preserve the links, and was previously using a .htaccess file to do this. Enter static hosting, on an empty bucket.
When you enable cross-region replication on an existing bucket, it doesn’t copy existing files from the source to the target bucket – it only copies those objects created or updated after the replication was enabled. We need to copy the original files manually using the AWS CLI.
Continue reading “AWS S3 Cross-Region Replication – migrating existing files using AWS CLI”In the past, I’ve configured these on my domains (and wrote about SPF with GSuite – which was at the time, Google Apps). In the last 9 years, the rest of the DNS config has changed a lot, and as I’ve never had issues with mail, I never reviewed my settings. Until today.
For another reason, I checked my config on mx toolbox – and I spotted that some tuning was required.
As it happens, Google offer a similar tool for their users in their Google Apps toolbox.
It seems, that at some point the recommended record has changed from:
v=spf1 include:aspmx.googlemail.com ~all
To a different domain:
v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all
OK; no problem – that one’s easy to fix. Setting up DKIM was easy as well, using the guidance here, and again highlighted that those records were incorrect as well. At some point a CPanel server had managed the DNS config and added it’s own records!
Reminder to self – review my MX settings at least every couple of years!
