IOL – the online offering of Independent Newspapers – seems to have issues — only two stories show up – one about Nigeria reversing their ban on its soccer team (and announcing that the football federation said it would disband and rebuild the side) and another after a very strange story about the Gatsby International Health Spa, and the search they performed on the suspicion of theft… (more…)
Archive for the ‘php’ Category
Upgrade and update WordPress without the FTP/FTPS options
2010
06.18
06.18
You may not have FTP or FTPS running on your server (either by choice or decision).
In order to manage that, there is a simple workaround you can implement. (more…)
WordPress 3.0 is out!
2010
06.17
06.17
Just a quick note – remember to upgrade now! But you knew that already! 
218 people helped fixing the 1217 bugs, with a new default theme called Twenty Ten and a whole lot more.
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[SOLVED] phpSysInfo – failed to open stream on Ubuntu 10.04?
2010
06.15
06.15
phpsysinfo eval : 2 Message : parse_ini_file(/usr/share/phpsysinfo/data/distros.ini): failed to open stream: No such file or directory File
There is a simple fix for this in version 3.0.5:
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Security Summit 2010 Wrap-Up
2010
05.14
05.14
So the Security Summit 2010 has come to an end. Featuring speakers such as Moxie Marlinspike, Joe Grand and Jeremiah Grossman (again), it’s a pity to say that there wasn’t much new that was presented. With repeated concerns about input- and output-validation, as the OWASP Top 10 for 2010 highlight and were used as a repeated example, and a call for a holistic approach to a company’s security posture, the idea of making the thought (and practice) of security part of the organisation’s culture came through over and over again. (more…)
KnowledgeTree 3.7.0.2 Document Indexing and Indexer issues (SOLVED)
2010
03.22
03.22
Argh. Well, it’s really not quite out of the box, at least on Ubutu Server 9.10 (after reinstallations required after initial failures…), so this is just a selection of the fixes that made the import and indexing of the 160 000 files at 102GB possible. So for KnowledgeTree 3.7.0.2 Commercial Edition (the same holds true for the Community Edition), the following should help:
- Use the best-practice advice when doing the local file system import – rather do 10 000 files at a time rather than 100 000 at once. Really. Trust me. It defeats the whole idea of just running a batch job. Completely. As you’d expect the option of saying – just transfer all data in directory X. But alas, that doesn’t work. So do it in batches. Manually.
- Tika Apache Indexer for Lucene – not so much on PDFs, Docs, XLS or PPT files. Install catdoc (which includes
catpptandxls2csv) andpdftotext(which you’ll find inxpdf-utils).apt-get install catdoc pdftotext- modify
knowledgetree/search2/indexing/extractors/TikaApacheExtractor.inc.phpand comment out the mime types that are affected above from the returned array ingetSupportedMimeTypes()– PDF, XLS, DOC and PPT: (more…)
KnowledgeTree 3.7.0.2 reinstallation site startup failure (SOLVED)
2010
03.21
03.21
OpenOffice.org startup failures, indexing issues and other niggles forced me to re-install KnowledgeTree 3.7.0.2 Commercial Edition (the same holds true for the Community Edition) more than once during setup. I was met with this delicious error notification which killed all further activity on the site (and prevented the startup of /setup/wizard/, control.php, browse.php, login.php — well, everything, really):
Warning: include_once(DB/.php) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/share/knowledgetree/thirdparty/pear/DB.php on line 371
Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘DB/.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’/usr/share/knowledgetree/search2:/usr/share/knowledgetree/ktapi:/usr/share/knowledgetree/thirdparty/xmlrpc-2.2/lib:/usr/share/knowledgetree/thirdparty/simpletest:/usr/share/knowledgetree/thirdparty/Smarty:/usr/share/knowledgetree/thirdparty/pear:/usr/share/knowledgetree/thirdparty/ZendFramework/library:.:/usr/local/zend/share/ZendFramework/library:/usr/local/zend/share/pear:/usr/share/knowledgetree/thirdparty/pear’) in /usr/share/knowledgetree/thirdparty/pear/DB.php on line 371
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /usr/share/knowledgetree/thirdparty/pear/DB.php:371) in /usr/share/knowledgetree/config/dmsDefaults.php on line 299 (more…)
KnowledgeTree 3.7.0.2 – OpenOffice startup script (SOLVED)
2010
03.21
03.21
Having repeatedly received the error that OpenOffice.org is not running on the standard installation of KnowledgeTree 3.7.0.2 Commercial Edition (the same holds true for the Community Edition), further investigation was necessary. The key area of investigation must focus on the dmsctl.sh file, particularly from line 47 onwards, but more of that further down below. This is on Ubuntu (9.10 Server).
First, do a few quick checks:
- Is the process running? Anywhere?
Check whether OpenOffice.org is actually running, using a simplenetstat -pant| grep 8100— as the default installation is running with a headless OpenOffice.org on port 8100. You should see something like:
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:8100 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 9655/soffice.binFor the fix in question, it wasn’t giving any results on this check (sudo the commands where required, but you knew that already), which means that it’s not running properly. Also,
ps -aux | grep soffice
gave no results, indicating non-functioning backend software.
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Knowledge Tree 3.7 Community Edition released
2009
11.25
11.25
PBGVVH25US66 They released the Knowledge Tree 3.7 RC Community Edition some time ago, which now runs on the full Zend-Server stack! Infrastructurally, this is the biggest changed; PHP-based setup wizards also feature, and sure – you can now run it on IIS6/IIS7, but that switch to the Zend stack with use of Optimiser features most highly for me on this development. But you knew that already!
Curious to see the feedback from Steve Briggs from iBurst about their KnowledgeTree (not necessarily their whole CRM solution) usage and implementation experience at iBurst, after the chat I had with him yesterday…
phpDocumentor on Windows — but please, you knew that already
2009
09.02
09.02
So the below description will give you a step-by-step to run phpDocumentor (which replaces phpDoc):
Get it at www.phpdoc.org or install it via PEAR (much easier – 2MB download or so).
For Windows machines:
- go-pear.bat (if you haven’t already — find it if you don’t know where it is) and pear install --alldeps phpdocumentor
- Do a search for PEAR_ENV.reg on your machine.
- Execute it.
- Make sure you’ve got the Environment Variables set to point to include the PHP bin directory (
set PATH=%PATH%;c:\path\to\php ) OR- From the desktop, right-click My Computer and click properties.
- In the System Properties window, click on the Advanced tab.
- In the Advanced section, click the Environment Variables button.
- Finally, in the Environment Variables window, highlight the path variable in the Systems Variable section and click edit. Add or modify the path lines with the paths you wish the computer to access. Each different directory is separated with a semicolon as shown below.
- In Vista:
- Open the the Control Panel, select the System and Maintenance link, and select the System link. Or, press the Windows key and the Pause / Break key at the same time.
- Select the Advanced System settings link.
- You can now call php and pear commands from the command line (you many need to restart for the changes to come into effect).
- Verify by typing phpdoc -h
phpdoc -d "c:\projectDir" -o HTML:default:default -t "c:\projectDir\docs"- for PDF files, replace the output parameter (-o): -o PDF:default:default
- Formatting in smarty (like PHP website etc): -o HTML:smarty:default
-t = target directory of generated documents
-d = source directory of files to check
-o output format as above.
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