CPanel includes support in their installer for eaccelerator; still, for some strange reason they don’t include support for APC also. So, if you want to install APC on your CPanel powered server, you will have to go back at the command line and install it manually. Here are the steps needed to install the latest [...]
Setup sftp-only access on default Redhat/CentOS install. Use built-in sftp-server which is non-chrooted and easy to setup. Server: Locate sftp-server binary and add to your list of valid shells on the system. which sftp-server Note: This will most likely give you this: /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server echo /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server >> /etc/shells Note: You may want to backup your /etc/shells [...]
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The common headache for beginners who try to move their Drupal site with CiviCRM is the CiviCRM configuration on new location or domain. I did this countless times and dealt with different problems before. I’ve read many online tutorials and how-tos, and I finally have my notes which is working for me everytime i move [...]
I’ve written few Drupal ApacheSolr install guides here and this one is basically an install draft for Ubuntu. Environment: Ubuntu 10.10, Apache, PHP, MySQL, Drupal 6.20 Things to install / setup: Solr, Tomcat6, ApacheSolr module for Drupal, and SolrPHPClient library 1.) Install Tomcat and setup your Tomcat admin user. aptitude install tomcat6 tomcat6-admin tomcat6-common tomcat6-user [...]
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Quick install guide for SVN with mod_dav_svn (http/https) repository access on Cpanel server running CentOs5. Configure Cpanel for SVN Recompile Apache/PHP (WHM -> Software -> EasyApache) and enable support for the following: Dav (Among other things mod_dav can be used by DAV enabled Frontpage clients instead of FP extensions) BerkeleyDB. Note: BerkeleyDB support (“–with-berkeley-db“) is [...]
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Here’s my quick install guide for Solr, Tomcat, and Drupal ApacheSolr module for multiple sites. Mostly I based the steps below from the following sites: wiki.apache.org and drupalconnect.com. Detailed Setup: Drupal 6.19 ApacheSolr module 6-1.1 Apache Solr PHP Client Library: Rev.22 Solr 1.4.1 Tomcat 6.0.29 SunJDK 6update21 RHEL5.5×64 Install Process: Tomcat Create solr user Download [...]
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Problem is I can’t upload directory including sub-directories and files using command-line ftp. I searched for similar problem and looks like you can’t do this using command line ftp, unless you create a script. One solution I found is the use of “lftp“. # lftp ftp_host > user ftp_user ftp_pass > mirror source target (download [...]
Normally, you will receive this warning when you are using a self-signed ssl certificate. But I encountered this issue on a domain with valid ssl from Verisign. Warning message indicates that Verisign not recognized. Update: Need to install GeoTrust’s intermidiate CA.
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I don’t know the name of this gentelman but he was THE hit at the after hour part. I believe this was the second or third time he did the trick at the insistance of the other sysadmins in the audience. It should be noted that there were no more than three women in the [...]
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Where can the very young industry of Web Ops learn from? Keynote – John Allspaw from Surge Conference. System Engineering – Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering that focuses on how complex engineering projects should be designed and managed Fault Tolerance – looking at massive Control Systems Engineering Max users on apache or max connections [...]
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