Having recently been migrating a number of web apps from a legacy IaaS Windows server VM setup over to Azure App Services a question arose around high availability / resiliency and specifically in the case of Azure – region resiliency. Sometimes having a complete HA / DR into a secondary region can be too costly, … Read more
Following on from my previous blog post showing how to configure PHP 8.1 based NGINX Azure App Services, another common change is wanting to update PHP.ini config to do things such as increase the max upload file size and timezone etc. When using Apache, PHP options can be set in the .htaccess file at a … Read more
As of 28th November 2022 PHP 7.4 will no longer be supported and as such users must migrate onto the latest supported version PHP 8.1. NOTE: Windows based Azure app services do not support PHP 8.1 and as such will no longer be supporting PHP after this date. So, in the various environments I manage … Read more
Recently when developing a large WordPress WooCommerce site for a customer with hundreds of products I encountered a challenge – uniform product short descriptions. Short descriptions generally appear alongside the product image and below the product name and price, although this can depend on how your theme is layed out. They are designed to give … Read more