I hoped on back to the certificate management application project again this week, to do some cleanup, adding a bit of documentation and test its deployment using FastCGI as well. Fortunately, the application still works as expected when deployed as a FastCGI process. We tested it out with the entire Read more…
The Setup Now that I have access to the production server, I had to pull the project’s code from our git repository into the server’s filesystem. Shortly after that, I needed to check if the server application could be built and executed. No major issues in that regard. Everything seemed Read more…
The major thing that I managed to get done by this week was the implementation of interfacing with the WooCommerce REST API. As a reminder, this is only done by the application when a new subscription for an organization certificate is made, and the customer also chooses the option to Read more…
As time goes on, the details and requirements of the project start to emerge themselves progressively. At this point of time, we have two kinds of products, one for individuals and another for organizations. In the case of organizations, they have the choice of buying an intermediate CA certificate and Read more…
It was about time to start writing some code since I already got the gist of how the application is gonna work overall. Nothing much has been done at this point, but so far I had set up two REST endpoints to handle both Subscription Created and Updated webhooks. As Read more…
At this point, I am more or less aware of how the whole flow of my project is gonna work, after having a fruitful discussion with Dr Shawn. Let me first summarize the flow from the perspective of the customer: Customers can subscribe to a license, in accordance to their Read more…
In the last blog post, I talked about the structure of how certificates would be created. I would now be talking a bit about the renewal process in WooCommerce subscriptions and how it relates to the renewal of the certificates as well. Subscriptions in general involves having recurring payments that Read more…
The time has come to embark on a new project. Although a different project on its own, it is closely related to the P3 project I was working on previously. The P3 application authenticates users through client certificates, but how and where are they gonna get the certificates? This is Read more…
I talked about problems that I faced while developing last week but that is no fun to hear me complain. Now I am going to talk about what I have done so far in my client project. Developing a reliable system Given that the system I am developing is a Read more…
This week was a major turning point for my project. What I had done for the previous week or so had to be thrown out of the window as the client decided to change their requirement. Here’s how it went down. On the first day of the week, I pretty Read more…