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19Jul 2010 by Asim Zeeshan 6 Comments

Installing Lighttpd, PHP and MySQL on Ubuntu

How to, Linux, OpenSource, PHP, Tips and Tricks, Tutorials, Ubuntu, Virtual Private Server

If you are not getting a package on Ubuntu, please check to see if your /etc/apt/sources.list file is updated. This is common with most VPS providers On VPS, especially with challenging small memory limit (e.g. 64MB or 128MB) lighttpd is the best option instead of Apache. In this article I will show you how to do that. On a fresh box (which has no apache installed) type this to get lighttpd webserver installed Now install PHP5 CGI package and PHP5 command line package Edit the following file and uncomment this line Now enable fastcgi module Restart Lighttpd You get the welcome page Lets install MySQL 5.1 server and client and optionally phpMyAdmin Now create a test page to see if phpinfo is all Ok Type in the following

23Jun 2010 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

How to change “-bash-*”?

CentOS, How to, Linux, Thoughts, Tips and Tricks, Ubuntu, Virtual Private Server

If you are seeing this in your bash (SSH), It makes it tough to navigate through SSH since it doesn't give you much information. To fix that, you can simply type this in your SSH when logged in:

21Jun 2010 by Asim Zeeshan 3 Comments

PHP Depreciated errors on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

How to, Linux, PHP, Tutorials, Ubuntu

If you have installed LAMP (Apache, MySQL and PHP on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS) then running this on SSH would be giving you certain PHP Depreciated warning like these Its a noted bug with Ubuntu and changes may be pushed soon but to fix this just edit each of these files and replace comments starting with '#' to ';'.

30May 2010 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

Install PHP5 ADOdb extension on Ubuntu

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ADOdb library is a very good data abstraction layer for PHP. Installing a PHP extension enables the library to auto-detect this and give even better performance. To install this library on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS do this

29May 2010 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

Installing T1LIB on Ubuntu

How to, Linux, OpenSource, PHP, Tips and Tricks, Tutorials, Ubuntu

I recently found out about T1LIB. But I had no clue how to install this. Lucky for me I am on Ubuntu and I have the ability to search for a package. T1LIB is actually in the latest Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. You can install it by punching in the following command

28May 2010 by Asim Zeeshan 16 Comments

Build-Essentials in CentOS?

CentOS, How to, Linux, Tips and Tricks, Tutorials, Ubuntu

If you are like me, you may be doing this to install essential build libraries to compile something from source :) Build essential is a Ubuntu / Debian package. On CentOS, you need to do this Warning: This will install all development tools approx 49 packages closing to 65MB

27May 2010 by Asim Zeeshan 6 Comments

Installing PHP’s SSH2 extension on Ubuntu

How to, Linux, PHP, Tips and Tricks, Tutorials, Ubuntu

On Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Do this (there's no need to do any compiling anymore) You can now test if PHP recognizes it's new ssh2 extension by running: Don't forget to restart Apache

08Apr 2010 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

How to solve ‘You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.’ in WordPress

How to, Tutorials

I have been getting the following error because I changed the database table prefix You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page. The cause of the problem is that you have changed the database prefixes but still, some of the word press config is tied down to the previous prefix (wp_ or something) Just execute the following two queries

12Jan 2010 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

Fixing Pear ‘unsupported protocal’ error

CentOS, How to, Linux, Tutorials

Are you getting the following error while updating any package in pear? pear.php.net is using a unsupported protocal - This should never happen. I got this error right after I upgraded PHP from 5.2 to 5.9 (using CentOS-Testing repo). To resolve this situation, do this. and then do this It should now give you the following output That's it, your issue is resolved.

14Dec 2009 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

Enable Multiple Instances of Windows Live Messenger (WLM) for Multiple Logins

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I just discovered that the latest version of Windows Live Messenger (WLM) supports multiple instances. That means, we don't need any third party tool to crack it. The support for multi-WLM i s not enabled by default, but can be easily turned on and enable with registry hack. Go to Start -> Run Type regedit and hit enter Navigate to the following registry key: KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Live\Messenger (For 64-bit x64 OS, go to following registry branch instead: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows Live\Messenger) In the right pane, right click on any blank space, select New on context menu, and then click on DWORD Value Name the registry value as MultipleInstances with a value 1 Close Registry Editor Start as many WLM instances as you wish. Its handy when you want to run an office and…

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