Archive for category FreeBSD
PHP goes AWOL
Posted by John S. De Stefano Jr. in FreeBSD, Technical on June 15, 2006
About a week ago, I began having trouble viewing PHP files on my PC– not with editing or parsing them, but simply with viewing web site files on my server that contained any PHP code. Since this was a sudden problem, and because I had always been able to view PHP files in my browser before, I foolishly assumed that the errors coincided with the installation of a web development appplication (Macromedia/Adobe Dreamweaver) and were related to system file type associations. Boy, was I wrong! Read the rest of this entry »
Trouble Updating FreeBSD
Posted by John S. De Stefano Jr. in FreeBSD, Technical on March 20, 2005
I was trying to update a FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 machine using the latest 5.3 sources. I ran a fresh cvsup immediately prior to each update attempt, and I tried to update with and without running the currently undocumented “make cleanworld” command to clean out /usr/obj before updating. But I ran into some trouble. Read the rest of this entry »