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mpm-itk is a fork of mpm-prefork (ironically in both process and project sense), which allows you to configure individual Apache vhosts to run as specified users and groups. This makes it extremely secure if used in a shared hosting environment. I have provided a CentOS RPM for this in the Webtatic yum repository. This should [...]

I’ve been hearing good things about git lately, with many projects which used to use subversion converting to it, so I’ve decided to try it out myself. RPMForge only has version 1.5, so like the other software I’ve been using, I’ve converted Fedora 11′s rpm to CentOS and put it in the Webtatic repository. Update [...]

My previous articles on installing PHP on CentOS dealt with installing PHP 5.2.6. I have found this to have some bugs that kill the process without error information. One bug I found, which was on an x86_64 server, was that converting an object to a string did this. So, I have compiled the latest PHP [...]

Update 20th June 2009 – I found a bug in PHP 5.2.9, so I have compiled 5.2.9 rpms, including the ones that this article talks about, check out the article here. Update 23rd May 2009 – It appears dbase, readline, json and filter were included either compiled into php or as a shared module in [...]

Update 20th June 2009 – I found a bug in PHP 5.2.6, so I have compiled 5.2.10 rpms and provided a repository from which to install them, check out the article here. Update 19th May 2009 – I have written an article here detailing how to build RPMs and install some additional php extensions, which [...]