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How do I make PHP securely load files from the server root home folder on CentOS?

So I built what I thought would be this awesome reporting page in PHP that loads data from some CSV text files and creates nice Google charts and tables for our clients. I then thought it would be ...
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Bash config files being read in contradiction to `man bash`

While trying to determine the differences between .bashrc and .bash_profile I notice that .bashrc is never read, and that .bash_profile is only read from SSH, but not from PHP. This seems to ...
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Fatal error: Class 'HttpRequest' not found

Whilst trying to make this request I have this error. I have tried to run "sudo pecl install pecl_http" but always fails. Could not find curl/curl.h After I have tired(yum instead of apt-get ...
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Upgrading php on a Linux server

I am running a Redhat on a webserver. The current version of php on the server is 5.1.6. I want to upgrade it to 5.3.8 so I downloaded php and compiled it and replaced the older php binary with the ...
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Removing a long string from php files - using grep and sed?

I have encountered some malware on my Linux server, and am trying to remove it from many php files. I've tried endlessly with grep | sed and grep | tr and couldn't even erase a simple text string, ...
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What should I teach in my Linux class? [closed]

I'm teaching a basic Unix class using Ubuntu. We've already covered basic Unix stuff such as: bash shell scripting file and directory permissions filesystem hierarchy common commands I would like ...
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Debian: Upgraded to php 5.3 and lost phpcli, php-pear, etc

I upgraded to PHP5.3 using this tutorial: http://www.debiantutorials.com/how-to-install-upgrade-to-php-5-3-on-debian-lenny/ It removed the following packages: Removing php-pear ... Removing ...
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MySQL socket and PHP (and other languages)

Background info I'm currently running CentOS (or Red Hat?). uname -a gives (I edited out my domain name) Linux XXXXXXXXX.com 2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jun 27 19:49:27 BST 2011 x86_64 ...
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What user should apache and PHP be running as? What permissions should /var/www files have?

I just spun up an Ubuntu 11.10 box and then ran apt-get install apache2 php5 to install apache2 and PHP 5 on the box. Now it is functioning as a "web server" and it loads the "It Works!" page. Now I'm ...
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redhat oauth.so missing

I tried to put the oauth on my redhat server, but since I got this message : PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php/modules/oauth.so' - /usr/lib/php/modules/oauth.so: ...
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cURL on Linux not compiled, although installed

cURL is not compiled into PHP. I'm running: [root@vps ~]# cat /etc/issue CentOS release 5.7 (Final) Kernel \r on an \m Then I execute yum install curl and yum install php-curl. Then: [root@vps ...
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PHP package won't install correctly

Yesterday I did apt-get upgrade on my Debian/testing and broke a php5 package. I even tried to remove & purge with apt and dpkg clean apt cache. When installed again clean, it fails with ...
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Apache 2 and PHP 5 not working

I have a test.php file in the web server directory with php phpinfo(); content. When I try to execute php test.php at a shell then it executes correctly. But when I try to open the web page in a ...
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PHP imageline function doesn't work. What and how should I download?

PHP function imageline on localhost works, but on VPS cloud hosting doesn't. I guess I have download something, but I don't know what. Could you give me a hand? P.S. PHP GD is already downloaded.
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installing ffmpeg-php on centos

With the help of this guide, I am trying to install ffmpeg using these commands: # cd ffmpeg-php/branches/ffmpeg-php/ffmpeg-php-0.6.1/ # replace 'PIX_FMT_RGBA32' 'PIX_FMT_RGB32' -- * # phpize # ...