FreeBSD Plesk 8 – installing php5 as CGI alongside php4

By On November 26, 2007 · Leave a Comment

If you have ever needed php5 to run along side php4, you can always compile php5 as a CGI, and let php4 remain as an apache module.

Here we’ve compiled php5 from FreeBSD’s ports, and have installed it as a CGI so that specific vhosts will run on this new php5. The installation was done [...]

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Updating Spamassassin on FreeBSD and Plesk

By On November 21, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Updating Spamassassin on Plesk and FreeBSD is quite simple without breaking things since the Spamassassin on Plesk is pretty standard.

System: FreeBSD 6.x
Plesk Version: 8.0.x

May work with other versions.

The stock plesk Spamassassin is a 3.1.x variant, which gets pretty old pretty quick. You can upgrade this via the ports by passing [...]

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Installing xcache on Plesk 8 on FreeBSD

By On September 24, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Installing xcache on Plesk can be a bit of an adventure, especially on FreeBSD, since Plesk doesn’t include a lot of the php sources you may require to get this done.

Download xcache 1.2.1 and php-4.4.4 (or whatever version matches what you require, you can check this by running a phpinfo.php script on the webserver)

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FreeBSD pkgdb.db error

By On April 4, 2007 · 1 Comment

What happens with FreeBSD pkg and ports ends up with a corrupted database?

This happens from time to time, here’s how it was solved:

# pkgdb -F
—> Checking the package registry database
[Updating the pkgdb in /var/db/pkg ... /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument; rebuild needed] [Rebuilding the pkgdb [...]

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