Plesk PHP upgrade
We are often asked to upgrade PHP on Plesk based systems. When working with Plesk based control panel systems, PHP is typically maintained by the operating system. This means RedHat 5 and CentOS 5 based servers will be running PHP version 5.1.6. Many applications have a requirement of PHP 5.2 or greater. A few options [...]
Read moreCentOS5 and PHP52 upgrade rpms
We encounter many scenarios where using the latest version of PHP is required. No great way, aside from downloading the PHP5 source and compiling, is available. That is, until you discover then IUS Community Project.
Read moreExtracting files from rpm and deb packages
We ran into an issue where an init script was missing and we needed to restore the file. The backup (of course) did not include the file we needed. We had to download the package, extract the contents, and move the init script back into place. Below are the commands used: DEB: $ dpkg-deb -x [...]
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