Smart IP Drupal 8 settings explained

The following is the explanation of each Smart IP Drupal 8 settings.

Database Update Status

This Smart IP section setting will only appear if your Data Source is either IP2Location binary database or MaxMind GeoIP2 binary database. It display the status of database update process from manually executed or automatically during cron run. If the database update failed, you can manually force the database update by clicking the "Update database now" button.

Setup WebPack to sync your defined source folders/files with your distribution folder

In Grunt, there's a plugin called Grunt-sync that can keep directories in sync. This is useful if you have custom template that is common and used in all your websites you are developing (it is good practice to modify/update your common custom template in one place instead of modifying/updating in each of websites source files). As of this writing there's no plugin for WebPack that can do the functionality same as Grunt-sync. However, we can "almost" achieve the functionality of Grunt-sync on WebPack by using two plugins. These are "Copy WebPack Plugin" and "Clean for WebPack" plugins.

Solution to no CSS source map file generated under production mode in Webpack 4

The issue is in Webpack 4 under "production" mode there is no source map file generated only for CSS (no problem in javascript source map file) but there is no issue in generation of source map for CSS under "development" mode.

Here are my previous configurations:

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Find target URL in each links in a page using advanced Selenium IDE script

In this article, we will create Selenium IDE routine that will find a target URL (we will use "webfoobar.com") in each links in each Google search page results until it finds the target URL. The Selenium IDE standard set of commands can't accomplish this task, we will need additional plugin "Flow control" that provides goto, while, etc. commands.As of this writing, the latest Selenium IDE does not support "Flow control" plugin additional commands and we will need to install legacy Selenium IDE plugin (version 2.9.1.1).

Run your legacy projects in PHP 5.6 along with Laravel Valet that runs under PHP 7.2 in macOS

As of this writing, the latest Laravel Valet requires PHP 7.2. What if you still have legacy projects or Drupal 6 modules you maintain that can't run under PHP 7.2? It would be nice if Laravel Valet has option to run multiple PHP versions but there isn't one. Laravel Valet uses nginx + php-fpm and we can tap to nginx and php-fpm's configurations to make possible to run our legacy projects in PHP 5.6. This will make our nginx running both PHP 7.2 and PHP 5.6.

Workaround way to display nginx configuration error details in macOS

The Homebrew service control in macOS does not display if there is/are error(s) in your nginx configuration. For example if you mistakenly duplicate the declaration of "client_max_body_size" directive Homebrew service control won't give any error details or even tell you that there is error in your nginx configuration when you restarted the nginx service: