DevOps on Dejan Bosanac

Multiple Apache instances on Gentoo box

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve started looking how to enable both PHP4 and PHP5 on our (relatively) new dev box running Gentoo. The box is already running PHP4 so the task was to add PHP5 support as well.

The official guide is rich in options you can use to achieve this. I didn’t want any CGI since we use PHP vhost configurations extensively and I didn’t want to deal with suPHP as well. Since it is a dev box, it is totally OK to have two instances with similar configurations running on two different ports. Unfortunately, it is the part of the official docs that is not as complete as other parts and not working as advertised. So, here’s a mental note (for me) and perhaps a few hour saver for others.

CVS, CentOS and SELinux

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I was migrating a CVS repository from one server to another today and ran on the interesting issue. I was getting a “Permission denied” error on the CVSROOT/config file no matter what privileges were set. It turns out that problem is with SELinux on CentOS, so the easiest solution is to just turn it off.

/usr/sbin/setenforce 0

If you want to be sure that it will be turned off after the server restart, just edit the /etc/sysconfig/selinux file and set SELINUX to permissive

Changing CVS Root from shell

Thu, 24 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Here’s a simple script that recursively changes CVS/Root files in the project tree

find . -name Root -exec sh -c 'echo :pserver:example@cvs.example.com:2401/var/cvsroot 
> {}' \;

Note sh -c segment of -exec switch, which is necessary in order to successfully redirect to appropriate files.

This could be useful for updating deployed projects with the repository that has moved (for any reason).