How to upgrade PHP 5.2 Centos Rumi, April 27, 2011September 5, 2017 Method-1 This guide describes how to upgrade the standard PHP 5.1.x packages in CentOS 5.x 32-bit to the current development versions 5.2.x. These instructions were created using CentOS 5.3 32-bit and with the following PHP packages installed: # rpm -qa |grep php php-common-5.1.6-15.el5.i386 php-cli-5.1.6-15.el5.i386 php-5.1.6-15.el5.i386 php-pdo-5.1.6-15.el5.i386 php-bcmath-5.1.6-15.el5.i386 php-ldap-5.1.6-15.el5.i386 php-devel-5.1.6-15.el5.i386 php-gd-5.1.6-15.el5.i386… Continue Reading
Webmin on Openfiler Rumi, April 2, 2011April 2, 2011 you need to start on the command line and in the root users home folder "/root" Download the latest Webmin RPM to openfiler from this page: (You want "RPM suitable for Redhat, Fedora, CentOS, SuSE or Mandrake Linux") http://www.webmin.com/download.html Copy the link from the webpage to download the correct RPM… Continue Reading
How to set up a home DNS server Rumi, March 28, 2011 Domain Name System The Domain Name System (DNS) is the crucial glue that keeps computer networks in harmony by converting human-friendly hostnames to the numerical IP addresses computers require to communicate with each other. DNS is one of the largest and most important distributed databases the world depends on… Continue Reading
Resolving Domains Internally And Externally With Bind9 And Caching Nameserver Rumi, March 28, 2011 Preface: Some times, we are required to resolve our internal domains on a local nameserver and external (Internet) domains from ISP's nameserver. There are different solutions to this problem, but in this howto, we are going to solve it through configuring a combination of caching-nameserver and BIND 9. Theory Behind… Continue Reading
How Do I Know if I’m Running 32-bit or 64-bit Linux Rumi, March 8, 2011 Few Basic Command- Using 'uname' uname –m 'uname' more uname –a Now something different- cat /etc/*release or cat /etc/*version Continue Reading
Enabling SquirrelMail For Your Web Sites On An ISPConfig 3 Server (Debian Lenny) Rumi, January 29, 2011January 29, 2011 SquirrelMail's Apache configuration is in the file /etc/squirrelmail/apache.conf, but this file isn't loaded by Apache because it is not in the /etc/apache2/conf.d/ directory. Therefore we create a symlink called squirrelmail.conf in the /etc/apache2/conf.d/ directory that points to /etc/squirrelmail/apache.conf and reload Apache afterwards: cd /etc/apache2/conf.d/ ln -s ../../squirrelmail/apache.conf squirrelmail.conf /etc/init.d/apache2 reload… Continue Reading
Errror on VMWare on my CentOS box- vmware is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured, for this system Rumi, January 28, 2011January 28, 2011 "vmware is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured, for this system. To (re-) configure it, invoke the following command: /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl" I've been receiving this error since I've been trying to setup VMWare workstation ver 5.0 on my Centos box. It is now resolve after issueing the command- VMWARE_DEBUG=yes… Continue Reading
Debian Mail Server with Exim as MTA Rumi, January 7, 2011 Install LAMP Base System: # installed: (L)inux – apt-get install apache2 # installs (A)pache – apt-get install mysql-server # installs (M)ySQL – apt-get install php5 phpmyadmin # installs (P)HP and mySQL Webtool – Installation of the webmin system-administration webapplication (cgi-perl with its own webserver): -> since etch, there is no… Continue Reading
Install & Configure Popasswd in Debian (for Horde) Rumi, January 7, 2011 $ apt-get install poppassd # installs server-side mechanism for changing the password $ cd /var/www-ssl/horde/passwd/config $ cp -p backends.php.dist backends.php $ vi backends.php: – delete all but 'poppassd' ########################################### # note: # My poppassd service didnt start, because the deb-package put the startup command in # the /etc/inetd.conf superserver file,… Continue Reading
Installing Horde in Debian 5 Rumi, January 7, 2011 Default installation is with Apache + mod_php5 + php-mysql: # aptitude install horde3 Packages installed looks like: apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils apache2.2-common fckeditor horde3 libapache2-mod-php5 libmcrypt4 php-cache php-date php-db php-file php-http-request php-log php-mail php-mail-mime php-mail-mimedecode php-net-dime php-net-ftp php-net-smtp php-net-socket php-net-url php-pear php-services-weather php-soap php-xml-parser php-xml-serializer php-xml-util php5-cli php5-common php5-gd php5-mcrypt php5-mysql… Continue Reading