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Installing php-mbstring on RHEL6

Submitted by John on Tue, 2011-03-01 10:00

I wanted to install the mbstring PHP extension on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. But to my surprise, it wasn't there:

# yum install php-mbstring
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin
Setting up Install Process
No package php-mbstring available.
Error: Nothing to do

That's because the package is in the RHEL Server Optional repository.

I went into RHN and enabled the repository:

Topic: 
PHP
RHEL6

Installing PHP 5.2 (or 5.3) on RHEL5 the easy way

Submitted by John on Mon, 2010-11-08 08:27

Just replace the stock PHP with one from the IUS Community project.

wget http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/stable/Redhat/5.5/x86_64/ius-release-1.0-6.ius.el5.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh ius-release-1.0-6.ius.el5.noarch.rpm
yum install yum-plugin-replace
rpm -qa | grep php
yum replace php --replace-with php52
/sbin/service httpd restart

Done!

Topic: 
PHP
RHEL5

Performance presentation, Des Moines Web Geeks

Submitted by John on Tue, 2009-09-22 09:07

Matt Nuzum, the webmaster of ubuntu.com, invited me to speak at the Des Moines Web Geeks meeting last night. The venue, Impromptu Studios, was a bit hard to find.

Topic: 
Drupal
FreeBSD
PHP
CentOS5

Installing APC on RHEL5

Submitted by John on Tue, 2008-08-12 16:13

Here's how to install APC on RHEL5.

# yum install php-pear php-devel httpd-devel
# pecl install apc
# echo "extension=apc.so" > /etc/php.d/apc.ini
# service httpd restart

Check for the apc section in your phpinfo() page. If it's not there:

Topic: 
PHP
CentOS5
RHEL5

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