30
2010
Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system’s timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function
Getting this in a PHP site I am writing, to fix add this to a common include on your PHP page: date_default_timezone_set(‘UTC’);
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30
2010
Show Errors in PHP using .htaccess
Simply add this to your .htaccess file to show errors in PHP, to surpress them simply change on to off # supress php errors php_flag display_startup_errors on php_flag display_errors on php_flag html_errors on
30
2010
Install APC on Fedora 13
To install APC simply enter in the following as root yum install php-pecl-apc
23
2010
Replace text in MSSQL row
I just had to do a bulk find and replace in MSSQL on a databsae to change PizzaExpress to Pizza Express. Instead of having to go into each one and change one by one I could just use the following SQL Query. Much faster! UPDATE restaurants SET restaurantName = REPLACE(restaurantName ,’PizzaExpress’,'Pizza Express’) WHERE restaurantName like ‘%PizzaExpress%’
21
2010
Autostart MySQL on CentOS
To start MySql Server automatically on a CentOS box simply issue the following command as root: chkconfig –levels 235 mysqld on You can also use this to autostart Apache: chkconfig –levels 235 httpd on
3
2010
Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysqli_connect()
Got this error when trying to use MySql in a PHP page on a Fedora install. What had happened is PHP wasn’t installed with MySql support. However it is simple to fix. Open up PuTTY and enter in the following: yum install php-mysql /sbin/service httpd restart
3
2010
Apache not using .htaccess
One common thing to happen when you have set up a new server with Apache and everything is realise all your rules in .htaccess are not working. This is usually to do with the AllowOverride Directive. By default this is set to None which means Apache will ignore all .htaccess files. Many people say that for best performance you shouldn’t use .htaccess files and instead put everything in the server configuration file, and from a [...]
3
2010
Virtual Host only showing Fedora Test Page
Setting up a Virtual Host in Apache, however although everything looked correct every time I hit the site I just got the Fedora Test page: I eventually found out that although my httpd.conf file was correct (shown below) permissions were set incorrectly on the web folder. To solve I granted 0777 permissions to the web folder and restarted Apache. All working again. httpd.conf <VirtualHost :80> ServerAdmin noemailhere@tech-problems.com ServerName www.tech-problems.com DocumentRoot /var/www/tech-problems/ ErrorLog logs/tech-problems-error_log CustomLog logs/tech-problems-access_log [...]
3
2010
HTML 5 Blank Page
Here is the code for a HTML 5 blank page <!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> <head> <meta charset=”utf-8″ /> <title>Untitled Document</title> </head> <body> </body> </html>
3
2010
Show my Fedora Version
To see what version of Fedora you have running (note this also works with CentOS and RedHat) issue the following command: cat /etc/redhat-release