Change Host File:
- Open up terminal and type: sudo nano /etc/hosts
- Make the needed change in the file to change the host of a website. This is simply writing the IP address of the server, space, the domain name. So in effect it looks like 000.000.00 domain.com
- Hit control x to close the file. Press Y plus ENTER to save the changes
- Type: sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder followed by Return to flush the DNS cache.
- navigate to the website you want to see
Change Version of PHP in Use With Laravel Valet:
- Open terminal and navigate to the project you are working on
- Type: Valet use php@7.2 (or whatever version of PHP you want to activate)
Serving Local Websites From Nested Folder with Laravel Valet:
- Open iTerminal and navigate to the subfolder where the site lives
- run valet link folder-name. This will create a symlink to this site so that you can then open up the web browser and type foler-name.test and the site will serve
Opening files in the finder window:
- option + space to open the alfred search finder
- ~ + file name, so for example ~ repos gets me to code repo folder
- once the folder that you want is visible hit command + enter to open it up in the finder winder
Open MySQL from command line & create a new database:
- from the terminal window type: mysql (this will login to mysql)
- then type: create database db-name; (replace db-name with the real name of the database you want to create and then press return to create the DB)
- Once the database has been created open up sequel pro and input the DB name + root and click connect
- If you need to import a database from staging or live down to local you can do that by clicking file -> import
Ignore a file in any repo – especially useful it the file has been added to gitignore and it is still tracking changes
git update-index --assume-unchanged -- wp-config.php
or you can run:
git update-index --skip-worktree -- wp-config.php
or for a directory you can run:
git update-index --assume-unchanged -- wp-content/plugins/
git update-index --skip-worktree -- wp-content/plugins/
*If you have a really stubborn file you can use:
git update-index --force-remove wp-config.php
Open up Alias file (or any file) with sublim text from the command line:
- This is pulled from this video: https://laracasts.com/series/setup-a-mac-dev-machine-from-scratch/episodes/7
- Once you follow the steps in that video you can then run the following command to open the alias file in sublime: subl . ~/.aliases
- This command can be used to open any file as well just replyce the ~/.aliases with “filename”
- ***If ever having trouble opening files up with subl . then just open up transmit and the .aliases file will be right there in the local root and just right click and open it up with sublime***
Open up Alias file with Vim
- vim ~/.aliases
- press shift i to start inserting new lines
- when done and ready to save press esc then shift :
- to quit without saving type q then hit enter
- to quit and save press wq and then hit enter
Take a screenshot and copy to the clipboard
control + command + shift + 4