March 30, 2009 at 10:55 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
While migrating virtualmin to our shiney new CentOS 5 box, I ran into this error on all our PHP sites:
If I look at php info, it shows –with-mysql, but there is no mysql section farther down. It looked like PHP’s Apache module was having trouble finding the mysql.so file. I immediately thought to check for the php-mysql module (there is no php5-mysql for CentOS 5, I noted) and found it installed:
[root@server apf]# yum install php-mysql
...
Parsing package install arguments
Package php-mysql - 5.1.6-20.el5_2.1.i386 is already installed.
Nothing to do |
After a short dive into the php.ini settings, I noted that all the restored sites had this in their php.ini file:
extension_dir=/usr/lib/php5/modules
But that dir doesn’t exist. Connecting the dots, I realized that CentOS 5 has moved all the PHP 5 data to the default. So the dir is now at /usr/lib/php/modules. And this solved the rest:
[root@server lib]# ln -s /usr/lib/php /usr/lib/php5
[root@server lib]# ls -ld /usr/lib/php*
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jul 16 2008 php
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Mar 30 21:01 php5 -> php
[root@server lib]# /etc/init.d/httpd restart
Stopping httpd: [ OK ]
Starting httpd: [ OK ] |
Yay!
March 7, 2009 at 7:39 am · Filed under Uncategorized
I wanted to put syntax highlighting in the new ztdev wiki. So off to google I went.
I checked out Extension:Syntax_Highlighting, but it required a pear extension to run and doesn’t produce great output, so I checked it back in again.
I also looked at Extension:Geshi, but I didn’t care for the absurd tags needed to make this run. Plus, the installation required pear extensions and other mediawiki extensions to be installed. Yarr. So I reported back to Google.
Then I found Extension:GeSHiHighlight . GeSHi based, so you know the highlighting is awesome, and it uses simple tags like <php>, etc to enforce the highlighting. Yay!
Installation was a sinch–4 steps listed in plain english. Do note the WARNING at the bottom about <div> and <css> tags! You may need to rename those as suggested in the wiki.
March 1, 2009 at 7:37 am · Filed under Uncategorized
I tried to edit my nav links on a new MediaWiki page today. Yikes. It’s not exactly click-to-edit, but it’s not impossible either, once you’ve waded through the mis-information available about how this is done.
- 1. Type MediaWiki:Sidebar into the search box
- 2. Click Go
- 3. Click on the edit tab. If this page has never been visited, there may not be an edittab; Click on create instead.
- 4. Make changes as desired.
Editing Other Bars
To edit other components on the sidebars, try the following pages:
Search Sidebar: MediaWiki:Search
Toolbox Sidebar: MediaWiki:Toolbox
October 1, 2008 at 6:56 am · Filed under Uncategorized
For the web devs, Safari‘s WebKit has been updated, providing some great new tools for writing the web and debugging Safari issues. They also wrote up a great overview of the features.
Together with Firebug the Venkman Toolbar for Firefox, that’s a great set of tools.
Now if IE would just join the bandwagon and offer us more than “null is null or not an object”!
September 12, 2008 at 6:57 am · Filed under Uncategorized
I wrote up a quick class for interacting with the twitter API. Right now it returns everything as json, but that would be a five minute project to change out for anyone with m4d sk1||z0rz.
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September 11, 2008 at 7:19 am · Filed under Uncategorized
I think that the history of user-agent string about sums up the state web in a single article. And you don’t need to be a programmer to appreciate the hilarity of that.
Nor do you need to be a theologian to draw parallels between what we’ve done with browsers and what we’d munge as a people if we were in charge of the entire universe : (
September 11, 2008 at 7:00 am · Filed under Uncategorized
