People using Direct Admin usually do the mistake to install anything new by using the yum repositories. In fact, Direct Admin has a custom build method, so when you want to add something new to your system, you might need to recompile what’s allready installed. The same goes for the PHP-SOAP too. Yet don’t freak […]
Installation of IonCube Loader on any variaty of Linux is very simple. Just get the copy from ioncube webpage itself, http://www.ioncube.com/loaders.php We will download the 64-bit version for our example. Then extract the file, copy the shared object file that matches your PHP version to an appropriate folder. To learn your PHP version you can […]
rsync is a very useful tool when it comes to backing up multiple files from remote or local targets. Below are a few nice examples you can use. To backup the whole contents of your /home directory to let’s say a usb disk, use the following. rsync -av /home /media/usb_disk Note that this will create […]
Cannot start session without errors, please check errors given in your PHP and/or webserver log file and configure your PHP installation properly. If you’re getting this error when starting phpMyAdmin, there are a few possibilities of what the problem may be. For starters, be sure that it is a server side problem. If this only […]
Even though it sounds like a simple problem, a lot of our customers have asked the question why they can’t get back ping responses from their MS Windows servers. The problem is simple, because on most flavors of MS Windows boxes, the firewall has disabled ICMP requests by default. To enable it, go to Start […]
Version Info: V0.2 21/06/2012 DO you ever wanted to set-up a testing server with – Apache virtual config, logs, paths setted, – MySQL server with password set, – FTP Server (Vsftpd), – PHP and PhpMyAdmin installed & configured on your server or VPS in seconds? If you answer “yes” to the question, you are in […]
Using short open tags, such as <? on your PHP code is not so clever. Other than the debate going on whether short open tags won’t be available on PHP6 or not, it is possible that your shared hosting has disabled it for some reason, or you might have to migrate your code sometime somewhere […]
This article is only applicable to H-Sphere control panel where old mysql passwords are stored as clear text. With the latest update, php 53 comes with mysqlnd module which doesn’t allow old_passwords to be used. In /etc/my.cnf comment old_passwords if any, Backup your MySQL database and restart mysql server and execute the following code: Create […]
If you get a 550 error as a reply when you email a user with directadmin, saying Remote host said: 550 “Unknown User” or The error that the other server returned was: 550 550 “Unknown User” (state 13). or something equivalent, then the problem might be your virtual domainowner settings. This happens with exim especially […]
Even though it’s easier to use yum, sometimes we need to compile PHP from source code. Below I’ll describe a method for compiling PHP 5.4.3 on CentOS, this works both on 5.x and 6.x and all the dependencies (except for PHP itself, of course ) will be retrieved via yum. After a fresh install of […]