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Connect to a remote mysql server with bash php or perl

What is the best and lowest resource way to connect to a remote mysql server (server1.example.com) and execute queries like INSERT into SERVICES (user, id) ($user, $id) from server2.example.com? ...
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run script asynchronously / in a different process

I have a simple php script <?php for($i=0;$i<10;$i++){ sleep(1); echo $i; } Which I run from the command line php myfile.php & I would expect I can do other things in the command line, ...
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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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Nginx + PHP + FTP - user permission issue

I have a wordpress copy installed on /home/username/public_html/site, and now the problem is : Nginx running PHP with "www-data" identity The site folder owner and group are "username", not ...
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nginx + php5-fpm + htdocs on USB

None of the configurations that I've looked up can help with setting up Nginx to serve PHP files on a mounted USB folder. I'm currently getting file not found when I try and access a PHP file on the ...
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How to meet required dependencies in order to install expect pecl extension on Mac OS X?

I am attempting to install the expect pecl extension. OS version = 10.7.3 PHP version 5.3.10 installed via macports expect version 5.45 installed via macports The command I am executing: ...
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Why don't I see the XAMPP page on Linux Mint?

I am trying to install PHP MySQL on Mint 12. I downloaded and installed XAMPP. According to the tutorial, when I go to localhost in a browser I should see this: Instead, I see: It works! This is ...
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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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Backup Manager and Cron : CentOs and Ubuntu 11.10

I have two dedicated servers: one has CentOS, the other Ubuntu. I installed backup manager on both servers. But I have two different behaviors. On CentOS: The backup of my files is "every night". I ...
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Troubles installing php with MySQL support

So I wasn't sure if this question would go best here or on Overflow or Server Fault, but decided to try here first. I'm installing LAMP on a VPS, and am running into issues configuring and building ...
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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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Fixing debian installer

I have a VPS with Debian GNU/Linux on it. I'm trying to install a PHP file manager so that people could access it and download stuff into a directory. I don't have anything in my /bin about PHP so ...
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How to upgrade PHP to 5.3 on Debian 5.0 (Lenny)?

I currently have PHP 5.0 installed on my Debian VPS and was wondering how I would be able to upgrade it to PHP 5.3 and keep all of my installed modules running.
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Executing commands with PHP: using normal user, but its home directory is /root

I'm using a custom compiled installation of Apache + PHP, listening on port 80. Apache is configured to run as a normal user, with the proper settings User and Group of the httpd.conf file. After ...
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How to open process substituted file from php?

Here's what I tried to do myself: $ type 1.sh #!/bin/bash -eu php -r 'var_dump(file_get_contents($_SERVER["argv"][1]));' -- <(echo 1) $ ./1.sh PHP Warning: file_get_contents(/dev/fd/63): failed ...
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Class 'COM' not found [migrated]

I am trying to use COM object in my script and running the script on linux server and got below error. Fatal error: Class 'COM' not found Any help?
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Debian - Apache 2.2 & mod_php - memory usage

I have a memory problem with my servers (Debian 6.0) where is installed Apache httpd 2.2, mod_php and APC. Actually it seems that httpd allocate all available memory (4GB) when is waiting too much ...
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Compile IMAP with certain PHP API version for MAMP

I've installed MAMP on Mac OS X (where PHP 5.3.15 with API version 20090626 is installed), but IMAP there is without SSL support. As long as MAMP using PHP v5.4.4 (API version 20100525) I've ...
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/etc/php.ini not being read on fastcgi?

On my DV from MediaTemple running Centos 5.8 I installed APC. I then added extension = "apc.so" to /etc/php.ini so APC will be enabled for all existing and future sites on the server. When I checked ...
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Unmanaged VPS bought today. Sendmail not functioning correctly

I purchased an unmanaged VPS today. I moved my website on over, and when I try to send an email. It returns a blank page. Not to mention I had to install PHP myself. Apache was there, for some reason, ...
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Not able to configure phpmyadmin in Ubuntu 12.04

I tried to configure LAMP on Ubuntu 12.04 following this guide (http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-apache2-with-php5-and-mysql-support-on-ubuntu-12.04-lts-lamp). But when I point to ...
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Nginx Owncloud 4 produces “No input file specified.”

I'm trying to setup an Owncloud 4 instance with nginx as a webserver. The host device is a Raspberry Pi with preinstalled Debian 6. When I try to open the URL to the Owncloud installation in a ...
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Disable tab autocompletion in interactive mode

I have set disable-completion on in my ~/.inputrc, however this doesn't affect php in interactive mode (php -a). I would like to copy some code from another editor to the php interactive shell which ...
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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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Arch Linux: Apache just isn't interpreting the index.php files

Title is self explanatory. I'm on Arch Linux, I installed the apache, php, php-apache and mariadb packages. I have added the following line to the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file: LoadModule ...
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HTTPd shows PHP code instead of executing it

My setup: # grep php /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so AddType x-httpd-php .php AddHandler php5-script .php # grep PHP /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf PHPIniDir ...
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How to check that ssh login was successful in a script?

I do run ssh server "svn info /path/to/codebase" from php. It works fine but I wan to know how to check if the ssh login was not successful. I want to check from my php script that ssh server is up ...
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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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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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Install another PHP version. Fedora 17

How can I install another PHP version? I have php 5.4.5 for now, but I need the version 5.3.15 running too. How can I perform this on Fedora 17? Without using a Virtual Machine?
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Create shortcut for PHP

I have XAMPP installed and my PHP is: /opt/lampp/bin/php-5.3.8 Every time I need to execute a PHP file I need to do this: /opt/lampp/bin/php-5.3.8 testando.php Is there another way to execute it ...
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Use an existing wampserver from a windows partition on linux mint

I dual boot Windows 7 and Linux Mint 14. I have wampserver installed on Win 7 and have a couple of websites already set up there. Is it possible to use that same installation apache/mysql/php ...
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How to set up file permissions/ownership for FTP/Apache/PHP on CentOS

I have basic understanding of chmod and CentOS file permissions. 777 stands for 111111111 and rwx for each root, group, user, etc. What I can't get my head around is setting up Apache, FTP and PHP to ...
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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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How to resolve midgard2 already loaded?

When running PHP on my Ubuntu 13.04 machine I get the following warning: PHP Warning: Module 'midgard2' already loaded in Unknown on line 0 This tells me exactly nothing. How could I resolve this ...
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Ubuntu crontab php not working

Yes, I have read many, many documentations but I can't get it to work. I have a simple single php file which I want to run once or twice in a minute. My php file is called: cronjob_refresh.php and I'm ...
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Problem with configure and build php 5.2 on redhat 5

I downloaded php binaries and tried to build the same using following command. ./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs --with-mysql But i'm getting the error related to mysql client library. ...
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Is there any command to enable/disable a php extension from command line?

Is there any command to enable/disable a php extension easily from command line? (php.ini)
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Nginx Ubuntu PHP5 - not found php-fastcgi.pid

I was setting-up Nginx with PHP5 on Ubuntu 10.04.4 TLS Server, and follow this instructions - http://library.linode.com/web-servers/nginx/php-fastcgi/ubuntu-10.04-lucid Everything is fine before I ...
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PHP file recursive change array key on find [closed]

I used PHP array $lang['module']['1'] = 'Title'; $lang['module']['2'] = 'Title2'; $lang['value'] = 'text123'; how i can use replace in terminal Key Value to CASE UPPER ? $lang['VALUE'] ...
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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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Giving PHP permission to write to files and folders

UPDATED FOR FURTHER CLARITY: According to http://expressionengine.com/user_guide/installation/installation.html, it says: For most Unix hosts the following is typical, but you may check with your ...
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process works without ampersand but doesn't work with ampersand

I wrote a small script to run as a daemon, everything seems to work when I run the command in unix: php script.php everything seems to work correctly, when I terminate that script and us the ...
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debug php script and output result and errors to a text file

Can someone tell me how to to run a php script and output content and errors to a text file (using nohup) using csh?
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send mail using external mail server

I'd like to send mails using a PHP script that has been deployed on a CentOS machine. Problem is there is no mail server configured. There is, however, another linux machine that has a mail server ...
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Getting PHP to work with apache to run .php files through browser

I have VPS running Debian 5.0 (I think) and I would like to get it to run PHP files. I was told it needed to be configured with Apache. I tried entering the command apt-get install apache2 php5 ...
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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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“Too many arguments to function” error while installing php5-pdo_mysql from ports in FreeBSD

I'm having a trouble while installing php5-pdo_mysql in my FreeBSD environment. Everytime I trys to do /usr/ports/databases/php5-pdo_mysql make install the console gives me this error: ...
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how to automatically cleanup failed PHP uploads in /tmp?

How can I automatically cleanup failed uploads? PHP is storing them in /tmp and all file names look like phpAbCDeF (basically php followed by 6 characters). I know that I can use the command: find ...
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sybase and iconv

I inherited an old Ubuntu 6.10 server running php 5.1.6 which is using sybase to connect to MSSQL. A user submitted some text containing an en-dash and crashed one of my script. It turns out sybase ...