PHP

Small 2019 update – Please check out this library – github.com/maxmind/MaxMind-DB-Reader-php

It’s a straight replacement of PHP module.

GeoIP extensions is quite use-full, but it requires some server – side magic. If you are looking for something simpler, just go with  ipstack.com or something similar – GeoIP .

Otherwise:

wget http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar
php go-pear.phar

We need geoip-devel libraries:

yum install geoip-devel

And newest (not stable) version of geoip:

sudo ./pecl install geoip-1.1.1

Don’t forget to add extension=geoip.so to your php.ini file.

This time we are going to cook Apache (httpd 2.4), PHP 7.0 as a PHP-FPM . Instructions are pretty simple. You can just copy and paste command to get working stack in less then 15 minutes.

What you can learn from it? How to install Apache 2.4 and PHP 7, how to enable and opcache, and how to install HTTPS on your server, with purchasing SSL certificate.

Recently I realised that my DirectAdmin hosting doesn’t support PUT and DELETE requests by default. Apparently it’s necessary to make requests to my recent PrestaShop API adventures. As usually quick and dirty solution below. All you need to do, just to drop it to custom configuration.

I’ve been recently trying to install the latest Magento and was experiencing some issues with Magento installer unable to detect PHP version. My message was pretty weird:

Your PHP version is . The required PHP version is

also found couple 500 errors in XHR requests.

Caddy it’s a new kid in the block in category super light web servers. Personally – I love it. Same love I feel to CodeIgniter . To marge both of them, we need only basic rewrite rule to drop into caddyfile.

api.spidersoft.com.au {
        root /var/www/html/spidersoft.com.au
        gzip
        rewrite {
                to {path} {path}/ /index.php?/{uri}
        }
        fastcgi / /var/run/php-sock php
}