This is more or less a notice to myself. I switched to LinuxMint recently and tried to setup a LAMP system including all modules in order to run OXID eShop on it (I basically need it for my daily work). This became fairly different to the Ubuntu installations I ran before, and I found some dodgy tricks that I want to document here. First off, this is the exact Linux version I run, found with $ [Read more...]
If you are using Zend Guard to encrypt your PHP applications you probably don't want to update your server environment to PHP 5.3.0: Zend Guard (for encoding your PHP files) and Zend Optimizer (for decoding your PHP files) are not available yet for this PHP version and so upgrading should break your application. A discussion about this subject is going on in this forum [Read more...]
One week ago, my hosting provider moved to another server and changed the IP address from 78.46.237.174 to 78.47.120.47. Obviously, everything was prepared fine, even the TTL handling. Okay, I understand that updating the ISP provider's DNSses worldwide could take up to 24 hours and at the end of the day this cannot be done real time. Yesterday, I tried to call up my domain [Read more...]
Moving WordPress from one server to another is pretty simple. It actually shall not take longer as five minutes following this steps: 1st step - server environment Check if the basic server environment is the same as you had on the server before, especially for PHP-Version (some modules require PHP5 and higher) Database-Version (maybe important for your data import) special PHP [Read more...]