How do I upgrade to the latest PHP version in CentOS with yum?
I found some blog posts about this, but it’s rather lack of descriptions on possible side effects. I could really use some detailed on these steps: How to add a repo that provides PHP 5.4 into yum Can...
View ArticleHow do you restart php-fpm?
I need to reload my php.ini and there’s nothing in the help dialog about restarting it. Asked by Galen Assuming you have the appropriate RC scripts in place, /etc/init.d/php-fpm restart or restart...
View ArticleInstall apc in production environment
Executing a pecl search apc returns the following: Package Stable/(Latest) Local APC 3.1.14 (beta) Alternative PHP Cache And according to here: http://pecl.php.net/package/APC 3.1.14 is still beta....
View ArticleIncrementing values, alternate way of doing this that won’t use MySQL
I need to count impressions of a .php script that is accessed via web. Right now I do this in a 1 line MySQL table and just increment the value. This works fine usually but when the server has traffic...
View ArticleChange php path
I’ve a server running Centos 5. Yesterday I upgraded php to 5.4.10 throught remi repository. Operation was successful ( I’ve checked updated information in phpinfo()) Today I figured out that php...
View ArticleHow do I upgrade php on openSuse?
I’m currently running openSuse 12.1 with php 5.3.8 and would like to upgrade to 5.4. How may I do this? I’m used to just installing software packages with yast. Asked by Isius If there is no package...
View ArticleFile readable by only PHP?
I’d like to make a file on my server be readable by PHP, but not directly accessible with a browser. Say my Apache installation’s root is /apache. I’d like PHP to be able to get the text of...
View ArticleRunning drupal as root in order for it to run bash scripts
I store a website on redhat and using drupal. There is a button on the site that activates a php script and that php script use exec to activate bash script on the server. Right now the script is not...
View Articleforbid custom php config settings on apache 2.2 + mod_php server
I have a server where php is running as an apache module. Every user on the server is restricted to his own directory with open_basedir. I have disabled the following functions: disable_functions =...
View ArticleSELinux: how to enable write access to Joomla cache directory?
I have set up SELinux on a Debian squeeze system, which runs a Joomla website. The Joomla PHP code wants to have write access to certain cache directories. The /var/log/messages file contains entries...
View ArticleApache/PHP won’t allow for mod_rewrite in .htaccess files
I have a simple .htaccess file to rewrite www.domain.com/foobar.php to www.domain.com/foobar RewriteEngine On RewriteRule foobar foobar.php [L] It is giving me a 404 even though I ran phpinfo();...
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