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Primary keys other than “id” in lumen-jwt

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Lumen-jwt is a great library that easily adds JavaScript Web Token (JWT) authentication to any Lumen application. I recently had the opportunity to submit my second pull request to the project, allowing user accounts to be uniquely identified via fields other than id, which was previously the only option. (As of this writing the PR has been … [Read more…]

Long-running PHP process on nginx

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Recently I had to allow a PHP script to run for several minutes under Nginx (more specifically, as part of a Laravel app on a DigitalOcean server), after encountering the error “504 Gateway Timeout”. First, to tell Nginx to allow the script to run for a longer period of time, I set the FastCGI read timeout to ten … [Read more…]