Delegation Domain Name

Let's say you need to redirect a website within your domain to an external host.  Instead of creating a webserver and redirecting the traffic.  In some case such as being on the same domain and wanting to redirect to an external name yet it includes your domain.

example: your domain is example.com.  You want www.example.com yet it is hosted by somewhereelse.com.  somewhereelse.com has a c-name of www.example.com

Solution is to add a delegation under your forward lookup zone.  Add two new name server: resolver1.opendns.com and resolver2.opendns.com

Ubuntu Flush DNS

sudo systemd-resolve --flush-caches
sudo systemd-resolve --statistics

NGINX PHP-FPM (FastCGI) 504 Gateway Timeout error on

Increase PHP maximum execution time in /etc/php.ini:

max_execution_time = 300

Increase PHP-FPM request terminate timeout in the pool configuration (/etc/php/7.2/fpm/pool.d/www.conf): 

request_terminate_timeout = 300

Increase Nginx FastCGI read timeout  under the http section (/etc/nginx/nginx.conf or /etc/nginx/sites-available/nameofvirtualhost): 

fastcgi_read_timeout 300;

Screenshot of a website

PhantomJS Installation

Install PhantomJS on Ubuntu

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential chrpath libssl-dev libxft-dev
sudo apt-get install libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev libfontconfig1 libfontconfig1-dev

wget https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
tar xvjf phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 -C /usr/local/share/

sudo ln -sf /usr/local/share/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64/bin/phantomjs /usr/local/bin

phantomjs --version
2.1.1

mkdir /path/to/screenshot
cd /path/to/screenshot

Copy rasterize.js in the directory where you want the resulting screenshot to take place.

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ariya/phantomjs/master/examples/rasterize.js
phantomjs --debug=yes --ignore-ssl-errors=true --ssl-protocol=any --web-security=true rasterize.js https://enews.ssis.edu.vn enews.png "400px*300px" .25

The last variable is the zoom factor of the website.  In this case .25 means 25% of the website in a 400px by 300px thumbnail.

Sort by Color

Reference: https://www.dynatable.com/?perPage=50&queries%5Bsearch%5D=2012

// Our custom sort function
function rgbSort(a, b, attr, direction) {

  // Assuming we've created a separate function
  // to get the average RGB value from an image.
  // (see source for example above for getAverageRGB function)
  var aRgb = getAverageRGB(a.img),
      bRgb = getAverageRGB(b.img),
      aDec = ( aRgb.r << 16 ) + ( aRgb.g << 8 ) + aRgb.b,
      bDec = ( bRgb.r << 16 ) + ( bRgb.g << 8 ) + bRgb.b,
      comparison = aDec - bDec;

  return direction > 0 ? comparison : -comparison;
};

// Wait until images are loaded
$(window).load(function() {
  $('#sorting-function-example')

    // Add our custom sort function to dynatable
    .bind('dynatable:init', function(e, dynatable) {
      dynatable.sorts.functions["rgb"] = rgbSort;
    })

    // Initialize dynatable
    .dynatable({
      features: {
        paginate: false,
        search: false,
        recordCount: false
      },
      dataset: {
        // When we sort on the color column,
        // use our custom sort added above.
        sortTypes: {
          color: 'rgbSort'
        }
      },
      readers: {
        color: function(cell, record) {
          var $cell = $(cell);

          // Store the average RGB image color value
          // as a decimal in "dec" attribute.
          record['img'] = $cell.find('img').get(0);

          // Return the HTML of the cell to be stored
          // as the "color" attribute.
          return $cell.html();
        }
      }
    });
})