http://vpsbible.com/forums/forum/php Setup Unmanaged VPS for Linux Noobs! en-US Tue, 22 May 2012 08:52:56 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://vpsbible.com/forums/search.php http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/php-54-10-performance-safe-to-upgrade#post-2879 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:59:00 +0000 the_guv 2879@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Basically Pooya, it's too early to upgrade to 5.4.0, unless you want to get involved creasing out the bugs.</p> <p>We should readdress this in a few months time. Earlier is not sensible for a production server.</p> <p>I've remastered docs to allow for 5.3.10 now (was PHP 5.3.4). </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/php-54-10-performance-safe-to-upgrade#post-2878 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 04:42:50 +0000 Pooya 2878@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>thanks guvner </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/php-54-10-performance-safe-to-upgrade#post-2871 Sun, 04 Mar 2012 12:19:37 +0000 the_guv 2871@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Pooya, am remastering some the relevant docs over the next couple days and will replicate this scenario while testing various configs and report back here </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/php-54-10-performance-safe-to-upgrade#post-2856 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:32:21 +0000 Pooya 2856@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>another Q is which tut I should follow to upgrade? thanks </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/php-54-10-performance-safe-to-upgrade#post-2854 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:32:35 +0000 Pooya 2854@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>as you know php 5.4 has released and it will improve your website performance. here are some charts: <a href="http://ckon.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/php-5-4-faster-than-5-3/" rel="nofollow">http://ckon.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/php-5-4-faster-than-5-3/</a></p> <p>my question is if it's safe to upgrade from 5.3 to 5.4 on a LEMP (guvnr edition) vps? anyone tried it yet? </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/how-enable-soap-support-on-php#post-2743 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:11:38 +0000 Pooya k 2743@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>anyone knows how? </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/error-500-on-site-after-post-edits#post-2734 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:19:35 +0000 perryb 2734@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Update two: That didn't fix the problem after all.</p> <p>I finally traced it down to an issue with APC.</p> <p>The solution lay in adding some config rules to APC's apc.ini (which was blank by default).</p> <p>Adding the following seemed to do the trick though I did follow the suggestions for the rest of the config at the link below:</p> <p><code>apc.include_once_override = 0</code></p> <p><a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-301-apc-314-php-533-white-wp-adnmin-page" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-301-apc-314-php-533-white-wp-adnmin-page</a></p> <p>My server has been purring along without a hiccup for 3 weeks now. </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/error-500-on-site-after-post-edits#post-2725 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:39:44 +0000 perryb 2725@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Thought I'd report back and say that I fixed the issue.</p> <p>After checking the /public/log/error.log in the site folder I came across a whole bunch of errors relating to various super cache files.</p> <p>Somehow the permissions got messed up. After a quick bit of chmodding everything seems stable again.</p> <p>A quick aside for the Guv (are you here Guv? Knock three times if you can hear us):</p> <p>I seem to have most trouble with wp-supercache and directory/file permissions. Whilst not insurmountable this seems the clunkiest aspect of the whole vps set up as documented here (well for me anyway). The problems tend to strike when doing the "wpupdate" and "wpsafe" operations to do plugin upgrades, installs and so on.</p> <p>If possible it would be great to see a mini tutorial on managing and mitigating file permissions problems. </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/how-to-install-the-latest-stable-curl#post-2724 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 02:53:51 +0000 mitty2005 2724@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Hi there all you finest people out there :-)<br /> I have a centos server with a few wordpress blogs on it. Lately I was getting curl error from one of the plugins. From countless hours of google researche i found out that it is caused by my server. Since I am linux noob I need help.<br /> I read that latest curl is 7.21.something while if I do YUM install curl i get 7.15. Can anyone please same me and help me how to install latest curl on my centos? I already did yum update so everything is up to latest . Well... Suppose to be!<br /> Please help! </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/error-500-on-site-after-post-edits#post-2716 Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:48:50 +0000 perryb 2716@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>I have multiple WP sites on my Linode.</p> <p>All work fine and have been up and running for a while now without any trouble. I rarely modify the majority of them (mainly there for development).</p> <p>I've recently set up a new blog which I add content to much more frequently.</p> <p>Initially this worked without any hitches but something must have gone ping as occasionally php fails and I'm left with blank pages requiring a reboot. The other sites still work fine.</p> <p>I'm guessing that the problem has something to do with wp-supercache, php and maybe file permissions.</p> <p>Either way there is no obvious direct cause and effect other than if I leave my site alone it ticks along nicely. Once I edit something or add a draft post then at some random point afterwards the site goes down.</p> <p>I'll post some error messages later when I get home. </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/home-environment#post-2697 Wed, 26 Oct 2011 03:59:08 +0000 mycol 2697@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Hello Guv,<br /> my phpinfo shows the home environment as being /var/www but your tutorials for multi user / site environemnt have me saving sites to /home/$user/public_html</p> <p>I'm wondering if I need to update the home environment? </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/how-enable-soap-support-on-php#post-2673 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:12:34 +0000 Pooya 2673@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Hello guvnr are you still here? </p> <p>If you can please help help me with the SOAP support on PHP,</p> <p>thanks ... </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/how-enable-soap-support-on-php#post-2607 Sat, 01 Oct 2011 15:06:32 +0000 Pooya 2607@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>my php is already configured with these:</p> <p>'./configure' '--with-config-file-path=/etc/php' '--with-config-file-scan-dir=/usr/local/lib/php' '--enable-fpm' '--with-fpm-group=www-data' '--with-fpm-user=www-data' '--with-bz2' '--with-curl' '--with-gd' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib' '--with-png-dir=/usr/lib' '--with-mcrypt' '--with-mysql' '--with-mysqli=mysqlnd' '--with-openssl' '--with-zlib' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--enable-inline-optimization' '--enable-mbstring' '--enable-mbregex' '--enable-sockets' '--enable-sysvsem' '--enable-sysvshm' '--enable-zip' '--without-sqlite' </p> <p>? </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/how-enable-soap-support-on-php#post-2606 Sat, 01 Oct 2011 13:24:33 +0000 Pooya 2606@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>can someone please guide me how can I enable SOAP support on PHP ? </p> <p>I know this command should help : sudo aptitude install php-soap</p> <p>but should I recompile or reconfigure it? I'm still a noob :)<br /> ------------------<br /> Linode-Ubuntu 10.04 LTS-LEMP-PHP 5.3.6 </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/php-fpm-compilation-issues-script-imminent#post-2597 Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:14:13 +0000 the_guv 2597@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>nice Wulfeous, tx, changed :) </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/php-fpm-compilation-issues-script-imminent#post-2593 Wed, 21 Sep 2011 08:26:50 +0000 Wulfeous 2593@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>ah!@</p> <p>newbie found an error! :D</p> <p>service start php-fpm</p> <p>near the end of the script should be:</p> <p>service php-fpm start </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/php-fpm-compilation-issues-script-imminent#post-2590 Tue, 20 Sep 2011 19:51:56 +0000 Wulfeous 2590@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>I got it going!<br /> I replaced 5.3.5 variable with the current version of 5.3.8.<br /> AND (i think this is what REALLY fixed it)<br /> instead of "Go gadget"<br /> i changed it to "Go, go gadget!"</p> <p>..<br /> ;)</p> <p>thanks guv!<br /> I feel that I should ask though, is it supposed to end with:<br /> start: unrecognized service<br /> ? </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/php-fpm-compilation-issues-script-imminent#post-2589 Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:04:51 +0000 Wulfeous 2589@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>loving the site :D</p> <p>I got a failure in trying to run this. sorry for being a newb. is it because i dont have nginx in yet? Just trying to follow the steps :) </p> <p>2011-09-20 10:41:01 (226 KB/s) - `php-5.3.5.tar.gz' saved [46309]</p> <p>gzip: stdin: not in gzip format<br /> tar: Child returned status 1<br /> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now<br /> ./script: line 137: cd: php-5.3.5: No such file or directory<br /> ./script: line 138: ./buildconf: No such file or directory<br /> ./script: line 147: ./configure: No such file or directory<br /> make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.<br /> make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.<br /> cp: cannot stat `php.ini-production': No such file or directory<br /> cp: cannot stat `/usr/local/etc/php-fpm.conf.default': No such file or directory<br /> cp: cannot stat `sapi/fpm/init.d.php-fpm': No such file or directory<br /> update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/php-fpm: file does not exist<br /> sed: can't read /etc/php/php-fpm.conf: No such file or directory<br /> sed: can't read /etc/php/php.ini: No such file or directory<br /> sed: can't read /etc/init.d/php-fpm: No such file or directory<br /> sed: can't read /etc/init.d/php-fpm: No such file or directory<br /> sed: can't read /etc/php/php-fpm.conf: No such file or directory<br /> sed: can't read /etc/php/php-fpm.conf: No such file or directory<br /> sed: can't read /etc/php/php-fpm.conf: No such file or directory<br /> sed: can't read /etc/php/php-fpm.conf: No such file or directory<br /> sed: can't read /etc/php/php-fpm.conf: No such file or directory<br /> start: unrecognized service </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/unsuccessful-login-cause-stall#post-2578 Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:29:49 +0000 parkerj 2578@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>I have a WordPress multisite installed and when there are several unsuccessful login failures, it causes the system to become unresponsive. Below is what I've seen in the error log, but I can't divine what it means. Any help is greatly appreciated.</p> <p><code>FastCGI sent in stderr: &quot;&amp;m=1312917645&quot; while reading response header from upstream</code> </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/php-fastcgi-and-php5-fpm-services#post-2526 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:47:08 +0000 Joe Crocetta 2526@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Thanks guv </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/php-fastcgi-and-php5-fpm-services#post-2525 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:51:33 +0000 the_guv 2525@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Joe, you could run both, just as you could run, for instance, different web servers of whatever flavor for whatever groups of sites. This all becomes quite complex though, particularly from the standpoint of manageability (and therefore of security).</p> <p>Without knowing precisely your requirements from site to site, your last point would tend to hit the issue on the head. In most cases you'd be best off doing that, disabling FastCGI and electing to run fpm for everything, for all your php scripts.</p> <p>As for mcrypt, that can be installed easily enough with:-</p> <p>sudo aptitude install php5-mcrypt </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/php-fastcgi-and-php5-fpm-services#post-2524 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 04:58:52 +0000 Joe Crocetta 2524@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Let me give a little background first-<br /> I have done all the vps tutorials and everything is going well with 3 Drupal 6 sites and 1 Drupal 7 site.</p> <p>I was looking at the tutorial to install phpMyAdmin ... ok got that running but on my phpMyAdmin page I see 'mcrypt' extension is not installed... </p> <p>This bugged me so I started to look at my php configuration. Well I am to the point where I have this stupid? question.</p> <p>Can php-fastcgi and php5-fpm services run concurrently? Does that question even make sense? Because I see two services available and when I try to stop and start php5-fpm it fails (fails on both ends because it can't find a process -then fails to start)... The logs basically say "failed: Address already in use (98)" I'm guessing that's because the php-fastcgi service is running OR am I way off target here? (sorry for my ignorance if I'm way off target) Is it as easy as stopping one service and starting the other and then configuring the server to start one service in place of the other on reboot? </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/segmentation-faults-in-these-executables#post-2515 Sat, 13 Aug 2011 19:45:56 +0000 the_guv 2515@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>hi famfam, more likely this is a compatibility issue, possibly between fpm and your kernel version.</p> <p>are any php scripts breaking? </p> <p>in any case, try a simple update/upgrade and likely the issue will have gone. </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/segmentation-faults-in-these-executables#post-2501 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 08:38:18 +0000 Daniel 2501@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>Logwatch report give me this message:</p> <p>WARNING: Segmentation Faults in these executables<br /> php5-fpm : 4 Time(s) </p> <p>What is wrong? is it a secure issue? </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/question-about-php5-memcache#post-2491 Sun, 07 Aug 2011 09:36:01 +0000 SuicideKings 2491@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>So i know in some of the newer stackscripts you've got the php5-memcache extension as the default suggested cache...but does it actually do anything by itself without the memcached server also installed and running?</p> <p>I'm just confused about php5-memcache and memcached, how they interact, and/or if they are totally dependent on each other.</p> <p>Everything I look up it seems they only talk about them both working together. I can't find much on what php5-memcache does just by itself. </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/phpmyadmin-mcrypt-extension#post-2385 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:55:12 +0000 the_guv 2385@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>hi Paul, thought I'd sorted that, will take another look.</p> <p>Is mcrypt installed on your machine? Try:-</p> <p>sudo aptitude install php5-mcrypt</p> <p>.. and restart PHP. </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/phpmyadmin-mcrypt-extension#post-2371 Sun, 03 Jul 2011 18:50:06 +0000 Paul 2371@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Thanks Stu, I'll try that</p> <p>Paul </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/phpmyadmin-mcrypt-extension#post-2370 Sun, 03 Jul 2011 18:44:59 +0000 Stu Rader 2370@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>I came across this. After modifying the /etc/init.d/php-fastcgi because of reading here in the forums about a glitch with the file (which guv probably fixed but is not evident in the thread) I found I had a double line (duplicate) entry. You may want to go check/overwrite that again. It stopped the error from surfacing for me. I have another set of problems, about to post... if that helps</p> <p>stu </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/phpmyadmin-mcrypt-extension#post-2369 Sun, 03 Jul 2011 17:53:40 +0000 Paul 2369@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>Any ideas? I've followed the PHPMyAdmin tutorial - got the browser login page with a warning - "Cannot load mcrypt extension. Please check your PHP configuration." (though there was an extra screen to accept an automatic config-db file which i clicked ok... maybe that was the problem?) Any help appreciated :) </p> http://vpsbible.com/forums/topic/cannot-start-php-fpm-please-help#post-2294 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:52:17 +0000 the_guv 2294@http://vpsbible.com/forums/ <p>hey Larry,</p> <p>no, all the same level.</p> <p>this is a cookie issue. sorry for the hassle but log out, delete all your "vpsbible" cookies, log back in and it should be sweet. </p>