XAMPP Upgrade from 1.7.X to 1.8.X
I use XAMPP to develop PHP applications on my desktop. As part of the requirement of my new project, I needed to upgrade XAMPP 1.7.X to the latest version, as of this writing it is…
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VPS Upgrade to PHP 5.3
Most CMS and Frameworks applications now require PHP 5.2 as the minimum requirement. Some have higher requirement to be able to function properly. I have been in this situation when I installed Kohana Framework on…
Ubuntu 13.04 on A Google Nexus 7
There are news[1][2] that the latest release of Ubuntu was successfully ported into the Google Nexus 7. I have extensively used Ubuntu in the past as a desktop or a home server. It is not…
Simple Tips To Make Your VPS WordPress Friendly
Unmanaged VPS is cheap nowadays. Sometimes even much cheaper than having a managed shared hosting. Managing your VPS yourself to works exactly how you want it is, however, a different story. A managed VPS will…
Linux – Installing Applications From Source Code
My preference is to install an application into my Linux machine available from the distros package repositories. This way, I could just use, “apt-get” or “yum”. But there will come a time that your selected…
Mediawiki 1.19.1 Installation Problems
I wanted to install a wiki on a Kloxo VPS (CentOS release 5 ). As Mediawiki is the most popular of them all, and despite some criticism that it is the most difficult to install…