Compiling PHP from source code can be essential when you require a specific PHP version that isn’t available through your Ubuntu distribution or a Personal Package Archive (PPA). This approach is particularly useful if you need to enable custom modules, such as pcntl, which is disabled by default on Ubuntu. By compiling PHP yourself, you … Read more
PHP cURL module allows you to connect to remote websites and API endpoints to exchange data. To see if you have php-curl enabled, you can check phpinfo() page or run the command “php -m’ and look for curl. boby@sok-01:~$ php -m | grep curl curl boby@sok-01:~$ If php-curl module is not installed, you can install … Read more
On a Laravel application, I get the following error message The only supported ciphers are AES-128-CBC and AES-256-CBC with the correct key lengths. To fix the error, run the command This will generate a new key and add to the .env file. Back to Laravel
ionCube is PHP extension that is used to load ionCube encoded PHP files. ionCube is used to protect commercial PHP scripts by encoding it, so no one can read the actual PHP code. First, download ioncube loader from https://www.ioncube.com/loaders.php cd /usr/local/src wget https://downloads.ioncube.com/loader_downloads/ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz tar xvf ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz cd ioncube/ Find extension directory and copy .so file … Read more
PECL is a repository for PHP extensions. To install PHP extensions from PCEL, you can use the command pcel install EXTENSTION_NAME_HERE To install a specific version, you can specify version after extension name as follows. pecl install pecl_http-3.2.3 Once an extension is installed, you need to edit PHP configuration and add a line to load … Read more
apcu-panel provide GUI to monitor APCu cache. To install apcu-panel on CentOS, run yum install apcu-panel The package provides following files [root@localhost ~]# rpm -q –filesbypkg apcu-panel apcu-panel /etc/apcu-panel apcu-panel /etc/apcu-panel/conf.php apcu-panel /etc/httpd/conf.d/apcu-panel.conf apcu-panel /usr/share/apcu-panel apcu-panel /usr/share/apcu-panel/index.php [root@localhost ~]# To enable GUI, edit file vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/apcu-panel.conf Modify it as follows # APC Control Panel Alias … Read more
When trying to upgrade nextcloud, I get the following error www-data@mail:/www/nextcloud$ php7.3 occ upgrade An unhandled exception has been thrown: OC\HintException: [0]: Memcache \OC\Memcache\APCu not available for local cache (Is the matching PHP module installed and enabled?) www-data@mail:/www/nextcloud$ To fix this, you need to install APC cache. apt install php7.3-apcu For CLI, you need to … Read more
To clear the Laravel cache, run the command You can also delete compiled files from Back to Laravel
OpenSSL command can be used to verify if an SSL certificate matches a private key file. You need to find the checksum for the SSL certificate and Private key, if both checksums are the same, then the key matches. To make this process easier, I created a PHP script to verify if the SSL certificate … Read more
On a web application, session not working. I verified PHP session is working with script https://gist.github.com/serverok/8c504205ae0357e0c6488eab880a77bf When refreshing the script, the number start increasing, that confirms PHP session works fine on the server. As for Codeigniter, we need to check the session settings in file application/config/config.php $config[‘sess_driver’] = ‘files’; $config[‘sess_cookie_name’] = ‘ci_session’; $config[‘sess_expiration’] = 7200; … Read more
To redirect a site to URL with www using PHP, you can use the following PHP code Add this code in your index.php file or another file included by index.php See Redirect
Here is a PHP Script to login to IMAP server.