Tao of Mac

May 18th 2004 · 1 min read · #archive #documentation #legacy #migration #site

Base Install

Since I often have to move this site from one box to another, I’ve documented one such migration (to 9.0 and 4.3.2).

Set up a minimal install plus the apt package manager. Then install the whole shebang, including development libraries you’ll need to rebuild later:

apt-get install mysql-devel php php-devel aspell-devel imap-devel net-snmp \
        net-snmp-devel net-snmp-utils bzip2-devel freetype-devel aspell-devel \
        httpd-devel libjpeg-devel libpng-devel pcre-devel postgresql-devel \
        unixODBC-devel gd-devel

Installing ming

For some reason the SRPMS I get off Rawhide have a broken (or outdated) ming, so I compile and install it as follows:

cd ming-0.2a
make
make install
make install-static

Upgrading

Get the latest source RPM (from either RedHat Rawhide or Edwin’s), rebuild it (patching the SPEC file dependencies as needed and adding ming to the configure invocation), and upgrade:

wget http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/SRPMS/SRPMS/php-4.3.2-7.src.rpm
rpm -ivh php-4.3.2-7.src.rpm
cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/
rpmbuild -ba php.spec
# (Resolve build dependency tweaks: aspell-devel >= 0.50.0 -> 0.30.0 if needed)
cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386
rpm -Uvh php-*

Note: I later grafted SRPMs onto 9.0 with minimal changes (e.g. upgrading to 4.3.6 required also updating pcre to 4.4 via SRPM).

Accelerate It

Install Turck MMCache:

cd ~/Packages
wget http://belnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/turck-mmcache/turck-mmcache-2.3.23.tar.gz
cd ../Build
tar -zxvf ../Packages/turck-mmcache-2.3.23.tar.gz
cd turck-mmcache-2.3.23/
export PHP_PREFIX="/usr"
$PHP_PREFIX/bin/phpize
./configure --enable-mmcache=shared --with-php-config=$PHP_PREFIX/bin/php-config
make
make install

Add to /etc/php.ini:

zend_extension="/usr/lib/php4/mmcache.so"
mmcache.shm_size="16"
mmcache.cache_dir="/tmp/mmcache"
mmcache.enable="1"
mmcache.optimizer="1"
mmcache.check_mtime="1"
mmcache.debug="0"
mmcache.filter=""
mmcache.shm_max="0"
mmcache.shm_ttl="0"
mmcache.shm_prune_period="0"

Secure

Check . Default firewall measures are usually enough for the base configuration, but I still follow hardening steps.

Not covered: security tweaks, security tweaks, site layout, etc.