I've been supporting over 80 MediaWiki wikis and half a dozen or so Wordpress blogs at Intuit, Inc. I started out on a couple of old Dell PCs with Mandrake. When they were overloaded, and that didn't take too long, I moved to an HP DL360 XEON Dual Processor server with 4 gig of RAM, redundant BIOS, 37 gig RAID 1, etc... A nice box.

So when the need arose to setup a server for another group, I dusted off one of those old Dells and decided to figure out how to do it right - with all the latest versions of Apache, MySQL and PHP, and all working together nicely. It took me a few days to figure out, but I finally have a clean, working system.

They walk you through each step of the way, explaining what to get, where to get it from, how to install it, and what needs to be configured to get it all playing nicely together. They compile the PHP with a lot of extensions enabled - some not really needed by "normal" installs - but it's always good to have options. By the end, you should have a nice, fully-functional installation with a working web server that groks PHP.]]> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:07:36 -0600 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4976 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4976 reports that the latest PHP release candidate has been posted by Ilia - PHP 5.1.3RC1.

Ilia Alshanetsky, release manager of PHP 5.1, has published the first release candidate of the upcoming 5.1.3 version of PHP. It's mainly a bug fix release, but the PCRE library was updated to version 6.6 and the CGI interface has been updated quite a bit as well. Other items improved included updates to the SPL, Reflection APU, cURL support and the GD functionality. The SimpleXML engine was also updated to allow for the use of namespaces with the addChild and addAttribute functions.

You can grab this latest release candidate from Ilia's site and you can check out the Changelog here.]]> Mon, 13 Mar 2006 07:19:59 -0600 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4335 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4335 this post on DynamicWebPages.de today, the first Release Candidate of the PHP 4.4.2 series has been posted.

Derick Rethans, the release manager for the upcoming PHP version, 4.4.2, has published the first Release Candidate for this series. Those who use PHP under Apache 2 or mod_rewrite right now, are specifically being asked to test this release. There have been reports of failures with this specific setup.

All further changes of the version can be found in the Changelog. Originally, the final version was going to be released on Tuesday. However with the help of a few industrious testers, the few errors can found (like the crashing issue with Apache 2) and taken care of so that the new release candidate shouldn't be far behind.

You can download this latest Release Candidate here...]]> Sat, 19 Nov 2005 05:47:58 -0600