Soketi on Ploi with SSLIn this post I'll try my best to explain how I would setup Soketi on a Ploi provisioned server. But wait a minute what is Soketi and why would you want it? Soketi is a Pusher protocol compatible WebSockets server. This means that you can use a Soketi...Jan 3, 2024 · 8 min readalex.bouma.blog
Setup Sentry Relay on UbuntuSentry offers Relay, it's a proxy or relay that sits between your application and Sentry and can be used to filter events, add additional information, and more. In it's simplest form it can be used to relay events to Sentry (which is why it's called ...Aug 29, 2023 · 6 min readalex.bouma.blog
Laravel authenticated user ID in NGINX access logFor debugging and/or easy searching it's handy to have the user ID in the NGINX access logs so you can quickly find logs for a specific user. There are 2 parts to achieving this: Add the user ID as a response header to our Laravel app using a middle...Aug 9, 2021 · 4 min readalex.bouma.blog
Laravel WebSockets on Forge with SSLIt seems the documentation and or explanation on how to use Laravel WebSockets on Forge with SSL is not sufficient or clear enough. Some have asked for in-depth instructions on how to install Laravel WebSockets in Laravel and deploy it to Forge with ...Jan 15, 2019 · 11 min readalex.bouma.blog
How to store user id in the Laravel session tableSometimes you want to store the user id with the session so you can purge all sessions or even a single session creating a more secure system for your users, or maybe you want to see how many times a user is logged in. There are many use cases but it...Aug 31, 2015 · 2 min readalex.bouma.blog