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/4664 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4664 main PHP site, they've released the latest version in the 4.4.x series - PHP 4.4.2.

The PHP development team is proud to announce the release of PHP 4.4.2. This release address a few small security issues, and also corrects some regressions that occurred in PHP 4.4.1. All PHP 4 users are encouraged to upgrade to this release.

Further details about this release can be found in the release announcement and the full list of changes is available in the PHP 4 ChangeLog.

Some of the things that this edition fixes includes: HTTP Response Splitting has been addressed in the header() function, an XSS problem inside the error reporting functionality has been removed, and Apache 2 regression with sub-request handling on non-Linux systems has been fixed.

So, head on over and grab this lastest distribution and upgrade today!]]> Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:45:52 -0600 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4400 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4400 PHPMac.com today, they have this new tutorial posted to help you, the OS X (Tiger) user to get Apache 2 and PHP 5.1.1 installed on your system.

For anyone that has been wishing to switch to Apache 2 on their Mac, this is the time to do it. PHP 5 has also recently been updated to 5.1.1 and this tutorial describes in detail, the best method to both build and install these programmes on your Mac.

Since Apple don't include Apache 2 with OS X yet I have felt it better to keep Apache 2 in its own directory, and to keep PHP for Apache 2, etc. confined the that directory too.

As usual, they give you all of the commands and information to get it all unpacked, placed in the right locations, and configured for your setup. There are also a few "frequent issues" down near the end of the tutorial to watch out for during your process...]]> Wed, 30 Nov 2005 07:11:52 -0600