An easy and quick way to find out what php version your apache server is using is to use the phpinfo() function. To do this we will create a file with <?php phpinfo() ?> in it and access it through our server by opening it in a browser. Deciding Where to Put the PHP File…
I will be installing the yum default version of php. Check You Don’t Have php Installed [ahmed@amayem ~]$ rpm -q php package php is not installed Or [ahmed@amayem ~]$ yum list installed | grep php [ahmed@amayem ~]$ We don’t have php installed let’s check what is available: Checking Available php Packages in Default yum Repositories…
If you wish to see the Apache modules available on your disk, perhaps to see the spelling when modifying the httpd.conf, then go to the following directory: [ahmed@amayem ~]$ cd /etc/httpd/ [ahmed@amayem httpd]$ ls conf conf.d logs modules run The modules directory is what we are after: [ahmed@amayem httpd]$ cd modules [ahmed@amayem modules]$ ls libphp5.so…
Checking if MySQL is Already Installed [ahmed@amayem ~]$ rpm -q mysql-server package mysql-server is not installed Or you can do it this way: [ahmed@amayem ~]$ yum list installed | grep mysql [ahmed@amayem ~]$ Downloading the MySQL Yum Repository Release Package: Choose your operating system from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/repo/yum/ In my case it was CentOS 6, which means…
When using regular expressions the * special operator is very useful. An expression followed by * matches a sequence of 0 or more matches of the expression. When the whole expression is followed by a * we get some intersting behaviour that people may not have expected. We will explore such behaviour in this post.…