Author name: James

Growing up I feel in love with all things Tech. I taught myself about cars, computers, electronics and couldn't ever get enough. I always have some nerdy project I am working on and after many year of getting told to share my love of all things nerdy I finally did when I made my site MyTechyLife.com

Using Composer Create Project with a local repository

TL;DR: You need to pass the location of the local folder as a repository and then make sure you set the “–prefer-dist” value to “@dev”. Just replace everything in caps below and you are good to go! composer create-project –prefer-dist SOURCE_SCOPE/SOURCE_NAME=”@dev” NEW_PROJECT_NAME –repository ‘{“type”: “path”, “url”: “/PATH/TO/THE/SOURCE/PROJECT”, “options”: {“symlink”: false}}’ I was recently working on […]

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WordPress site health reports “authorization header is missing” on Bitnami WordPress

If you are using AWS Lightsail or running a Bitnami instance somewhere else for WordPress and want to use the REST API chances are you will have issues. In my case it manifested in not being able to authenticate even though I knew the credentials were correct. Then thanks to some help from the Gravity

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