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PHP-FPM on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx

antonio lorusso — Mon, 10 May 2010 23:47:53 +0000

I have been using the dotdeb repository on karmic for a while, but today, when I installed the new Lucid Lynx, it just became a mess so I decided to keep all the original ubuntu packages (Lucid ships php 5.3.2) and find an alternative repo for php-fpm which I use on my dev machine.
Here it is:Brian’s php5-fpm : Brian Mercer

Happy 10.04!

upstream sent too big header while reading response header from upstream

antonio lorusso — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:21:46 +0000

if you have this error from nginx with php-fpm and output_buffers = On in your php.ini then try to increment the buffer size in nginx:
fastcgi_buffers 8 16k; fastcgi_buffer_size 32k;

disable Pure-ftpd logging on syslog

antonio lorusso — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:33:04 +0000

Pure-ftpd is a bit tricky to configure because do not handle the configuration like any other daemon in Linux so you will not find any /etc/pure-ftpd.conf.

According to the pure-ftpd documentation, you should start the daemon already with the options you need. The default Ubuntu installation, use the files in /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/ to set the options for the startup script of pure-ftpd so, to disable the logging, execute the following command in your shell and restart the daemon
$ echo "none" > /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/SyslogFacility $ /etc/init.d/pure-ftpd-mysql restart

Firefox 3.6 stable on Karmic

antonio lorusso — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:41:13 +0000

I’ll just paste here the usual simple steps to install the latest firefox 3.6 on your ubuntu:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install firefox-3.6

Have fun

PulseAudio Equalizer

antonio lorusso — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:00:59 +0000

I’ve always thought the the linux community is made by brilliant minds and here is one: psyke83 from the ubuntu forum. Here is his script that finally brings an always wanted equalizer in our Ubuntu desktops : http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8210866&postcount=1
I’ve installed it on my machine and my ears are happy now

Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git

antonio lorusso — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:20:30 +0000

Git explained by his the creator. I’m more convinced than ever!

the correct procedure for compiling subversion 1.6.2

antonio lorusso — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:44:35 +0000

Not sure if this is the complete way of doing it (I’m not telling you which .deb to install), but it worked for me:

Remove some waste from eventual previous compilations:
$ rm -rf /usr/loca/lib/libsvn* $ rm -rf /usr/local/lib/libapr* $ rm -rf /usr/local/lib/libexpat* $ rm -rf /usr/local/lib/libneon*
Run autogen
$ ./autogen.sh
Configure and install (it is important to follow the order)
$ ./configure $ make -j external-all $ make -j local-all $ sudo make install
That’s it. Hope to have helped someone as usual.

bash: mv files with a specific date to another directory

antonio lorusso — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:13:33 +0000

I was searching for a bash command to move files and directories from a folder to another with modified in a specific date for ages on google until I gave up and decided to write it myself:
ls -l | awk '$6 == "2009-06-04" { print $8 }' | xargs -t -i mv {} /destination/folder
To understand what this line does, you need to know a bit about awk and xargs (try “man xargs” in your shell)

Explaination:

ls -l : directory listing
awk ‘$6 == “2009-06-04″ { print $8 } : take the files and dir with date 2009-06-04 and print the list
xargs -t -i mv {} /destination/folder : execute the mv command. {} is the result from the previous command.

I would like to explain you more, but I’m quite lazy and I leave you with google to undestand better the commands I’ve used.

Have fun!

LightTPD nightmare

antonio lorusso — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:08:56 +0000

if are trying to use mod_evhost in lighttpd in a more advanced way like using deep subdomains or with particulars tld like “co.uk” aka 2tls, you should know that
$HTTP["host"] =~ "^([^.]+)\.([^.]+)\.babelclient\.photobox\.([^.]+)\.([^.]+)$"{ evhost.path-pattern = "/web/%5/%6/assets" }
will NEVER WORK but
$HTTP["host"] =~ "^([^.]+)\.([^.]+)\.babelclient\.photobox\.([^.]+)\.([^.]+)"{ evhost.path-pattern = "/web/%5/%6/assets/" }
WILL WORK.

compare the two pieces of code and start screaming like a mad!

.bashrc not executed

antonio lorusso — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:25:34 +0000

Me and my friend Antonello, are going to start an experimental testing server to improve our skills in Ruby, PHP and start with Python as well.
After the installation, Antonello provided me an access created with webmin but, after the login I noticed that bashrc, actually bash, was not executed!
Editing /etc/passwd file, I was able to re-enable bash at login instead of sh:
your user line should look like
loginname:x:1001:1001::/home/antonio:/bin/bash
and not
loginname:x:1001:1001::/home/antonio:/bin/sh