Right, installing PHP 7.1 is simple, just get the Webtatic repo and install it # rpm -Uvh https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el7/webtatic-release.rpm # yum install -y mod_php71w php71w-cli php71w-common php71w-gd php71w-mbstring php71w-mcrypt php71w-mysqlnd php71w-xml php71w-opcache If you want to use FCGId instead of mod_php install and configure FPM and mod_fcgid (make sure you remove… Continue reading
PHPmailer does not work with NTLM authentication and insists on using mhash() which is deprecated – so you need to edit the file in /extras called ntlm_sasl_client.php Find the code that checks if mhash() is installed and replace the 3 mhashes with hash instead: || !function_exists($function = “mhash”) ) {… Continue reading
Fail2ban hasn’t been working for me, I still have people running brute force attacks on my Postfix server, so I though I’d rig up something myself. This consists of a bash script that identifies multiple failures and bans them, run on cron every 10 minutes. It checks for both smtp… Continue reading
Just a quick one – I needed a script to convert a table to a csv, so this is what I came up with. See the annotations for notes: //html table is in variable $report $report = str_replace(array(“\n”, “\r”), “”, $report); //remove existing line breaks $report = str_replace(‘”‘, ‘\”‘, $report);… Continue reading
On a Linode Virtualmin CentOS 6 the upgrade from Xen to KVM breaks quotas with the following error: repquota: Cannot stat() mounted device /dev/root: No such file or directory The issue is that the symbolic link /dev/root is linking to /dev/xvda which has been replaced by /dev/sda so the symlink… Continue reading
The recent update to nss-softokn breaks rpm/yum updates in CentOS 6. To restore functionality run these commands: For 64-bit: # wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/updates/x86_64/Packages/nss-softokn-freebl-3.14.3-19.el6_6.x86_64.rpm # rpm2cpio nss-softokn-freebl-3.14.3-19.el6_6.x86_64.rpm | cpio -idmv # cd lib64 # cp libfreeblpriv3.* /lib64 # yum update For 32-bit: # wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/updates/i386/Packages/nss-softokn-freebl-3.14.3-19.el6_6.i686.rpm # rpm2cpio nss-softokn-freebl-3.14.3-19.el6_6.i686.rpm | cpio -idmv #… Continue reading
After the recent global distributed botnet attack on WordPress installations that took down servers and broke into admin accounts, I thought I’d write a plugin to prevent it happening again. Distributed botnet attacks can come from multiple IP addresses and locations at the same time, so conventional IP-based lockouts are… Continue reading
MyBackup Pro from Rerware can be a very useful app to back up your phone – or transfer data between phones. I set it up to backup my Android phone on a nightly basis, but more often than not it fails to connect to their server and cannot upload the… Continue reading
I just thought I’d share a formula I worked out a few years ago when a client asked me to make sure his Paypal website payments were covering the Paypal fees – so that he got the full amount he was asking for. In the UK, Paypal standard fees are… Continue reading
The list of fonts in the WordPress visual editor is quite short. There are plugins available to increase it, but I wanted to add my own custom font to the select dropdown. There’s no plugin hook for this, so it needs a little lateral thinking. Firstly, generate your webfont @font-face in… Continue reading
