• Roundcube does not send mails via Exim with STARTTLS

  A customer reported, that it is not possible to send emails via the Roundcube webmailer. So I started digging. In the end I found the cause in the URL to the SMTP server. If Exim is configured to use STARTTLS it is necessary to set the protocol in…

• Simple SSL redirect in Træfik with Docker

  Often the goal is just to make the server redirect from HTTP to HTTPS, meaning from http://www.mydomain.com to https://www.mydomain.com. Using Docker with docker-compose it is possible to change Træfik's behavior through the so called "labels". To…

• Apache + mod_rewrite: Exclude certain paths from basic authentication

  Sometimes it's necessary to protect a website or -application with basic authentication, but leave certain urls publicly available. There are many examples which either use the <Location> directive or do not use mod_rewrite. But you cannot build a…

• New crawler for TYPO3 CMS

  Many smaller sites still use "indexed_search". This in itself is not a problem. Unfortunately until now, there haven't been a crawler extension, that was fully compatible with TYPO3 CMS 8. With a newly developed extension, I tried to approach the…

• TypoScript & Fluid in eID scripts

  For implementing the backend for an ajax request I'd like to use an eID script to avoid loading the whole frontend. But I wanted to use Fluid for templating and TypoScript for configuring the template paths.

• Fluid in TYPO3 CMS 8: <f:switch>with default case

  In TYPO3 CMS 8 the integrated Fluid was replaced by the separate typo3fluid/fluid package. This brings some interesting changes. Among others, the handling of has changed.

• Custom upload folder

  Many editors use the feature to upload a file/image directly in the record/ content element instead of uploading it via the file list first. By default those files are stored in "fileadmin/user_upload". This leads to a huge amount of files in the…