Author Archives: Chris Owens

Fetch As Google Error – ReactJs

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Hi everyone,

I ran into the following error while using “fetch as Google” and none of my pages were being indexed correctly:

Uncaught TypeError: undefined is not a function

It took a while to find a solution but after some Googling I found that GoogleBot currently uses Chrome v41. You can download the mini installer of Chromium v41 which will run in parallel with your existing Chrome version: https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/chromium-browser-snapshots/o/Win%2F310958%2Fmini_installer.exe?generation=1420864313749000&alt=media

After downloading Chromium you can just debug normally via the console. In my case, Chrome v41 didn’t like the following command:

document.head.append(script);

Thanks to tomekrudzki on Reddit for the link to Chromium v41: Chrome 41 the key to successful website rendering

 

 

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AWS 2_ContinuousDeliveryPipeline Tutorial – Error: no test specified

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Hi everyone,

I ran into the following error while completing an AWS tutorial: https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-serverless-workshops/tree/master/DevOps/2_ContinuousDeliveryPipeline

C:UsersChris-PCsourcereposUniApiuni-apitest>npm test

> uni-api-test@1.0.0 test C:UsersChris-PCsourcereposUniApiuni-api
> echo ‘Error: no test specified’

‘Error: no test specified’

The solution was to add the following line to my package.json file:

“scripts”: {“test”: “mocha”}

Now when running npm test I get the expected test output:

4 passing (24ms)
1 failing

1) Reading Unicorns
errors on missing unicorn data:

AssertionError [ERR_ASSERTION]: 500 == 404
+ expected – actual

-500
+404

at lambda.lambda_handler (testread.spec.js:77:20)
at appread.js:20:10
at Object.get (testread.spec.js:34:33)
at Object.exports.lambda_handler (appread.js:18:13)
at Context. (testread.spec.js:65:16)

npm ERR! Test failed. See above for more details.

Thanks to this link for the answer: https://teamtreehouse.com/community/when-i-run-test-i-am-getting-an-error-that-says-no-test-specified

.NET Core 2.1 is Returning JSON with Lowercase Properties

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Hi everyone,

Just testing out .Net Core 2.1 and noticed that all of my JSON properties are being returned in lowercase despite being defined as uppercase. It turns out that this is configurable:


// Change from this
services.AddMvc();

// To this
services
        .AddMvc()
        .AddJsonOptions(options => options.SerializerSettings.ContractResolver = new DefaultContractResolver());

Check out these links for more info:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/38202543/522859
https://github.com/aspnet/Announcements/issues/194

Parsing Hash Args for Cognito Auth – Javascript

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Hi everyone,

A quick post on a function for parsing hash args when using AWS Congito.

//jsfiddle.net/4eo7836j/embed/

Just in case the fiddle ever disappears:

const parseHashArgs = aURL => {

  aURL = aURL || window.location.href;

  var vars = {};
  var hashes = aURL.slice(aURL.indexOf('#') + 1).split('&');

  for (var i = 0; i  1) {
      vars[hash[0]] = hash[1];
    } else {
      vars[hash[0]] = null;
    }
  }

  return vars;
};

document.body.append(parseHashArgs("#id_token=testtokenval&token_type=bearer&expires_in=3600")["id_token"]);

Thanks to this link on Github: https://gist.github.com/miohtama/1570295/289d5a82e65663c9b515c88186a268c6dd1fddb7

AWS Installing AWS Inspector Agent on Windows EC2 Instance

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Hi everyone,

Just a quick post on installing the AWS Inspector Agent on a Windows EC2 instance.

Open PowerShell and run the following command:

(new-object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('https://inspector-agent.amazonaws.com/windows/installer/latest/AWSAgentInstall.exe','C:UsersAdministratorDesktopAWSAgentInstall.exe')

On your desktop, right click on AWSAgentInstall.exe and select run as administrator. Follow the prompts.

Go to run, and execute services.msc. You should now see the Amazon SSM Agent:

If you go to your amazon console > amazon inspector > assessment targets > Click on your relevant target > Preview Target:

Your agent status should now be healthy.

Thanks to these links for the info:
https://superuser.com/a/330754/124014
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/inspector/latest/userguide/inspector_installing-uninstalling-agents.html#install-windows

Dynamic Robots.txt with Web Api 2

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Hi everyone,

For a project I’m currently working on I needed a dynamic robots.txt. Because our test environment is public facing we want to keep it from being indexed by Google etc. It took a bit of Googling to find a solution that worked, but in the end it was actually pretty simple.

Here’s the action in one of the API Controllers:

    public class UtilitiesController : CustomBaseApiController
    {
        [Route("Robots.txt")]
        [HttpGet]
        public HttpResponseMessage GetRobotsFile()
        {
            var resp = new HttpResponseMessage(HttpStatusCode.OK);
            var stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();

            if (Helpers.IsProduction())
            {
                // Allow bots in production
                stringBuilder.AppendLine("user-agent: *");
                stringBuilder.AppendLine("disallow: ");
            }
            else
            {
                // Don't allow bots in non-production environments
                stringBuilder.AppendLine("user-agent: *");
                stringBuilder.AppendLine("disallow: *");
            }

            resp.Content = new StringContent(stringBuilder.ToString());

            return resp;
        }
    }

Also need to add the following to your web.config so that the robots.txt file can processed by the routing handler. Without this IIS will attempt to serve it as a static file and will return a 404 when it’s not found:

In production you’ll end up with the following:

user-agent: *
disallow:

And any other environments:

user-agent: *
disallow: *

Thanks to these answers on stackoverflow for the info:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/52270877/522859
https://stackoverflow.com/a/17037935/522859

AWS EC2 Elastic Beanstalk Going to Sleep – .Net/Windows/MSSQL Server Express

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Hi everyone,

I’ve been having a bit of an issue with my AWS app going to sleep and taking a long time to handle initial requests.

I’m using .NET with Elastic Beanstalk on a T2 Micro Instance and MSSQL Server Express on RDS. My FrontEnd is a static ReactJS app that sits in S3 behind CloudFront. There’s also a load balancer across the backend.

My frontend was always instant but my initial Api calls were timing out. This ruled out S3 and CloudFront, leaving the following:

  • Load balancer
  • RDS/MSSQL
  • EC2/IIS

After a bit of Googling I came across something that looked fairly promising – MSSQL Server Express has a property called AutoClose set to ‘ON’ by default. AWS appears to correct this as mine was off however it’s worth checking:

-- If set to zero then auto close is off
SELECT DATABASEPROPERTY('mydatabasename','IsAutoShrink')

-- Check all instances at once
SELECT name,is_auto_close_on FROM sys.databases

-- Turn off if on
ALTER DATABASE myDB SET AUTO_CLOSE OFF

In my case the actual problem turned out to be IIS idle timeout. By default IIS automatically times out an application after 20 minutes. In order to disable this create the following ebextension:

commands:
    setIdleTimeoutToZero:
        cwd: "C:\windows\system32\inetsrv"
        command: "appcmd set apppool /apppool.name:DefaultAppPool /.processModel.idleTimeout:0.00:00:00"

If you haven’t done this before, all you need to do is create a folder called .ebextensions under your project directory. Then create a new file called iis-idle-timeout.config and add the yaml to it. If you need more information on iis timing out check out this great blog post: https://notebookheavy.com/2017/06/21/set-iis-idle-timeout-elastic-beanstalk/

Thanks to these sources for the solutions:
Disable auto_close: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1750400/522859
IIS Timeout: https://notebookheavy.com/2017/06/21/set-iis-idle-timeout-elastic-beanstalk/
EBExtension Info: http://notebookheavy.com/2017/05/01/auto-install-newrelic-agent-elastic-beanstalk/