Webmin installation problems
I’m just in the middle of setting up a new server for testing and thought I would go with Webmin to act as the manager just to make things nice and simple. Following the guide here as I have done...
View ArticleCreate SSH Keys from your Mac
I spend a lot of time in Terminal connected to remote servers via SSH, I’m by no means an expert and have come across using Key pairs in the past, but never really used them. Until now. It’s really...
View ArticleHow to update Ruby on CentOS 5.x
CentOS is great and by far my preferred distro, however it’s package support is terrible. Whilst it’s ties to RHEL make it solid and usable the lack of repos really does cause a load of headaches....
View ArticlePHP 5.3 and the date!
So PHP5.3 is being widely used now, and even comes as default on newer CentOS distros, however seems there is a little problem with date(). An example: Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is...
View ArticlePHP Mcrypt on CentOS 6
Yay, CentOS 6 still doesn’t by default include mcrypt in it’s distribution on repositories. There is hope, EPEL to the rescue again: rpm -ivh...
View ArticleCentOS Root Certificate Authority Failures
Oh CentOS why you so annoying! I love you and hate you all at the same time! When trying to add the shiny Github RSS feed on the right of the page I came up with CS errors that WordPress could not...
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How to install and configure LEMP (Linux, nginx, MySQL and PHP) on CentOS 6
Fellow developers have been on at me for the last couple of years to ditch Apache and move to nginx. If you know what nginx is then you know why, if not let’s have a quick look at what nginx is. Nginx...
View ArticleHow to fix “exim dead but subsys locked” issue
cPanel is annoying, but sometimes we still have to use it. If you come across the issue “exim dead but subsys locked”. Have a go at the following: root@server [/]# /etc/init.d/exim status exim dead but...
View ArticleHowto Install PHP 5.4, 5.5 or 5.6 on CentOS 6 and CentOS 7
I still use CentOS as my distro of choice on any new server and whilst things are getting better CentOS and RHEL still don’t have up to date versions of PHP available inside the default yum repos. A...
View ArticleCentOS 7: ifconfig command not found
So if you do a fresh “minimal” installation of CentOS 7 you might run into this issue when trying to run ifconfig. bash$: ifconfig: command not found The problem is that ifconfig is part of the...
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