Using IUS (Inline with Upstream Stable)--a nifty repository provided by EPEL--we can upgrade beyond PHP 5.4 by first removing our current version of PHP, installing our preferred version (5.6 in our case), and then restarting Apache:
$ sudo yum remove php-cli mod_php php-common $ …
When setting up the SSL certificate for workingninja.com, I made a mistake in my VirtualHosts configuration file that handled the redirect of the non-SSL site to the SSL site. The mistakes was simple: I forgot a trailing slash on the receiving end of the redirect. Without the trailing slash on …
Here’s the process I followed to get ImageMagick installed on a CentOS 5 DV Server over at Media Temple. I needed ImageMagick to convert PDFs to JPG files.
yum install ImageMagick*pecl install imagick
Here’s where I encountered the first hiccup:
shtool at ‘/var/tmp/imagick/build/shtool’ …
Get to vhost root:
alias www='cd /var/www/vhosts/'
From domain.name, get to WordPress theme directory:
alias t='cd httpdocs/wp-content/themes/'
Restart Apache gracefully:
alias apachegrace='/etc/init.d/httpd restart graceful'
Directory listing with timestamp, ownership, permissions, etc:
alias ls="ls -l"
Add the following to your .htaccess file to block posts to wp-comment-posts.php and wp-login.php that have do not have an http referrer or user agent. This will also redirect the user back to their IP address.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .(wp-comments-post|wp-login)\.php* RewriteCond …Here’s the lowdown on how I setup my MAMP (Mac, Apache, MySQL and PHP) server for local web development and the steps I went through to create a development environment for a site already in production.
Apache comes preinstalled with OS X so I decided …