Published: January 26, 2016
In my current job, I am starting the process to upgrade our PHP 5.4 application to a PHP 5.6 application (PHP 7 is not yet support by the majority of the 3rd party libraries we use). I have been tasked with building the staging server for use in testing our legacy application as well as our newer Symfony-based application. We…
Read more...Published: December 28, 2014
I have moved my site from one domain to another. I was using Wordpress on my old site and was happy. Adding pages was a thing of beauty. Configuring was a dream. Then I wanted to modify my theme. Then I wanted to use some fun HTML5 tags. Then I wanted to minimize hacking vectors. Then I realized that I…
Read more...Published: April 08, 2014
For years, I have prided myself on knowing how to set up a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python) server in linux OSes based on Debian, RedHat, and SuSE. Today, I needed to set up an internal-use survey server using LimeSurvey. I decided to build as modern of a server as possible using CentOS, nginx, MySQL, and PHP 5.5 with Zend…
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