The ffmpeg installed by yum cannot be used with ffmpeg-php, so we need to download and compile it: cd ~admin/software wget http://www.ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-0.6.tar.gz tar zxfv ffmpeg-0.6.tar.gz cd ffmpeg-0.6 ./configure –enable-shared make make install Now we need to download and configure ffmpeg-php: cd ~admin/software wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ffmpeg-php/ffmpeg-php/0.6.0/ffmpeg-php-0.6.0.tbz2?use_mirror=puzzle&ts=1278667907 tar -xjf ffmpeg-php-0.6.0.tbz2 cd ffmpeg-php-0.6.0 phpize ./configure There’s an error in […]

The first step is to vanilla install PHP 5.2 (to handle any dependency issues) and then recompile it with the t1lib option. So enable the testing repo of CentOS 5. Change to root user first, then create the repo: su – vi /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Testing.repo Enter insert mode (hit i) and paste the following into the new […]

Step 1: Secure SSH Log in as root to your server and type the following commands to backup and then edit the SSH configuration: cp /etc/ssh/ssh_config /etc/ssh/ssh_config.bak; cp /etc/ssh/sshd_config /etc/ssh/sshd_config.bak vi /etc/ssh/ssh_config Hit the i key to enter insert mode. Then uncomment all the lines after (and including) Host * (i.e. remove the hashes) and […]