You may wonder how to find out what proxy server you are using on a Windows machine.
Proxy settings in Windows can be configured system-wide (for all users of the same computer) or per-user.
In this note i will show how to display system-wide and user-specific proxy settings in Windows from the command-line (CMD) and PowerShell. (more…)
By default the startup directory where you appear when you launch Git Bash is /, that is the installation folder of Git Bash.
If you need to find out the path to /, you can run this command:
$ explorer .
It opens the current directory in the File Explorer so you will see the path in the address bar. (more…)
The Home (~) directory in Git Bash can be changed by setting the user-level %HOME% environment variable in Windows.
This is quite safe as the %HOME% environment variable is not normally set for Windows applications, so creating it shouldn’t affect anything else.
Moreover, setting the user-level environment variable in Windows doesn’t require admin rights. (more…)
User-level environment variables in Windows can be set without admin rights.
The easiest way to set or change an environment variable for the current user is by using the built-in graphical editor for environment variables.
Alternatively, an environment variable for the current user can be set without administrative privileges using the Windows PowerShell. (more…)
While cloning a Git repository using Git Bash (Git for Windows), you may get an error as follows:
fatal: unable to access ‘<URL>’: SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate
In this short note i will show a fast workaround of this problem and how to resolve it properly. (more…)
Minikube is a single-node Kubernetes cluster that can be installed on macOS, Linux and Windows.
It lets you to try out Kubernetes locally on your personal computer or use it for daily development work.
In this note i will show how to install Minikube & Kubectl on Ubuntu (with VirtualBox) and deploy a first “Hello Minikube” application on a local Kubernetes cluster. (more…)
Let’s Encrypt CA (Certificate Authority) can issue a wildcard SSL certificate that will be valid for 90 days – completely free of charge.
The easiest way to obtain such wildcard SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt is by using the Certbot (command-line client for Let’s Encrypt).
In this note i will show how to install Certbot and get a wildcard SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt. (more…)
By default pip installs packages from a public PyPi repository but can also be configured to install them from the private repositories, like Nexus or Artifactory.
In this note i will show how to configure pip to install packages from the private repositories.
I will also show how to define username and password in pip for the private repositories that require authentication and how to troubleshoot the SSL related issues. (more…)
The fingerprint is a unique sequence of letters and numbers used to identify the SSH RSA key.
It is the fingerprint of a key that is verified when you try to connect to a remote host using SSH.
In this note i will show how to generate the md5 and sha256 fingerprints of the SSH RSA key from the command line using the ssh-keygen command. (more…)
The URLs with and without trailing slash are considered by web-servers as well as by search engines as different web-pages.
By this reason the URLs with trailing slash may return 404 Not Found error, while without the trailing slash they are reachable.
In this note i will show how to remove the trailing slash from URLs in Nginx and proxy_pass the traffic without them. (more…)