Following on from my issues with Zend loader.. So one of my sites, which runs VBulletin 4.22, stopped working after the upgrade at the weekend. I assumed I'd done something silly and the Apache error logs weren't being particularly helpful: [Sat Aug 23 18:01:56.661206 2014] [authz_core:error] [pid 6523] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:49939] AH01630: client denied by server … [Read more...] about Vbulletin 4.22 – Another PHP 5.5 “Gotcha”
Ubuntu
Zend Loader Not Available For PHP 5.5
Yesterday I finally got round to upgrading one of my servers to the latest Ubuntu LTS - 14.04 Trusty Tahr. There are a few "gotchas" with the upgrade that I might cover in a separate post, but the biggest one isn't Ubuntu's fault or PHP's fault. Zend, for some odd reason, haven't released a compatible version of their loader for any PHP version of the 5.5* series. … [Read more...] about Zend Loader Not Available For PHP 5.5
Ubuntu Grub Error
More for myself than anyone else .. While cleaning up the kernels and doing some updates on an Ubuntu machine you might get this error: you may need to re-run your boot loader[grub] Not 100% clear to me, but the solution is pretty easy. As root or using sudo run: update-grub Problem solved! … [Read more...] about Ubuntu Grub Error
Working With SuPHP Permissions and Ownership
I switched one of my web servers over to use SuPHP a few weeks ago, as it's a lot more secure. However moving from mod_php to suPHP does require a small bit of tweaking of files and directories. Under mod_php you can easily end up with a lot of files and directories being owned by the Apache user, which on Debian / Ubuntu is "www-data". You'll need to change the ownership … [Read more...] about Working With SuPHP Permissions and Ownership
Ubuntu PHP Bug
I upgraded a couple of servers to the latest version of Ubuntu a couple of days ago and noticed something really odd when checking the running processes post-upgrade. For some bizarre reason there were literally thousands of "fuser" processes running. Odd, but I didn't think too much of it, as they disappeared after a reboot .. or so I thought .. This morning I … [Read more...] about Ubuntu PHP Bug