December 28th, 2015
Now running PHP 5.4.45
Posted at
04:35:42 AM by
froems
I just upgraded PHP 5.4 to its final release. Apparently PHP 5.4 has reached its end of life, and I'll have to move to 5.5 eventually.
July 31st, 2015
And now running Apache 2.2.31
Posted at
11:52:42 PM by
froems
I had installed the new version of PHP before checking to see if there was a new version of HTTPD. Lo and behold, there was. So I compiled and installed that, then recompiled PHP for the newer version of apxs.
July 31st, 2015
Now running PHP 5.4.43
Posted at
11:31:28 PM by
froems
Upgraded PHP and everything seems to be okay. I had to upgrade freetype to freetype-2.5.5-x86_64-2.txz from slackware-current first because the old version of freetype was looking for an old version of libpng, which I had upgraded while trying to get KDE working.
This time I configured PHP with --enable-mbstring before compiling, because I might want to use some of the mbstring functions in a project.
July 5th, 2015
Now running the 3.18.11 kernel
Posted at
08:12:20 AM by
froems
I wanted to see if I could get KDE running on the server, even though I don't really need it.
The first time I tried to run it, startx would fail. Reading through xorg.0.log, I determined that the problem was due to the server's Intel Broadwell 5500 graphics, which was too new and was unsupported by the Linux kernel that came with Slackware 14.1.
So, I installed the
kernel-huge-3.18.11-x86_64-1.txz and
kernel-modules-3.18.11-x86_64-1.txz packages from
slackware-current. Once I was able to get the new kernel running, I found that this wasn't enough to fix the problem itself, so I also installed the video driver package
xf86-video-intel-2.99.917-x86_64-1.txz from
slackware-current.
I then started receiving messages about an incorrect ABI version. So I installed
xorg-server-1.16.4-x86_64-1.txz from
slackware-current. This resolved the ABI version but there were still some dependencies that required upgrading, which were the
libpng-1.6.16-x86_64-1.txz and
libxshmfence-1.2-x86_64-1.txz packages from
slackware-current.
Finally, KDE was able to start, but there was no keyboard or mouse support. I had to go back to
slackware-current one more time to install the
xf86-input-mouse-1.9.1-x86_64-2.txz and
xf86-input-keyboard-1.8.0-x86_64-2.txz packages.
And with all of that done, I was finally able to get KDE running with the mouse and keyboard working.
I don't think I'm even going to use it. I just wanted to see if I could get it to work.
June 27th, 2015
Running new server: Intel i7 5500U, 16GB RAM, 64-bit Slackware 14.1
Posted at
06:28:07 AM by
froems
The old server, which served us well for almost a decade, finally burned out. Literally, the CPU heatsink seems to have gone bad and its CPU was running temperatures of 200+ degrees and constantly shutting down. So it was time to upgrade.
The new server is running a 64 bit version of Slackware 14.1, Apache 2.2.29, PHP 5.4.42. I rolled back udev from 182 to 165 because I was having the same problem with the new server seeing the RAID array.
I've spent the last week copying over everything from the old server to the new, and it looks like everything is working again.
Also, I saw that mod_perl 2.0.9 is finally out with Apache 2.4 support. I'll have to look into moving to Apache 2.4 now, when I have time.
May 2nd, 2015
Now running PHP 5.4.40
Posted at
03:31:13 PM by
froems
I've upgraded PHP again and everything appears to be working.
Still no mod_perl for Apache 2.4.
April 9th, 2015
Now running PHP 5.4.39
Posted at
06:45:50 PM by
froems
Upgraded PHP again. Everything seems to be working after the upgrade.
Still no mod_perl for Apache 2.4.
February 11th, 2015
Now running PHP 5.4.37
Posted at
10:01:20 PM by
froems
Upgraded PHP once again. Everything seems to be running fine.
There's still no release version of mod_perl for Apache 2.4 yet. I'm starting to wonder if it will ever be released.
October 17th, 2014
Now running PHP 5.4.34
Posted at
04:54:24 PM by
froems
New PHP version, patched some security holes, installed without any issues, blah blah blah.
October 7th, 2014
Now running Apache 2.2.29 and PHP 5.4.33
Posted at
05:45:49 AM by
froems
I've upgraded the software to the newest versions yet again.
I still can't move to Apache 2.4, because mod_perl for Apache 2.4 still isn't a thing yet. I hear it should be ready Real Soon Now, though.
I also upgraded Bash to patch the Shellshock security hole, although none of my CGI scripts use Bash anyway. Why would anyone ever use Bash for CGI when there's Perl?
