Hosting: Enabling Redis class on MediaTemple’s gridserver (gs)

Here's how I enabled access to a Redis server from my (GS) gridserver: 1. Store your SITEID in a variable: export SITEID=`pwd | awk -F\/ '{ print $3 }'`   2. Create a folder to store the redis.so module mkdir /home/$SITEID/data/lib mkdir /home/$SITEID/data/lib/php/   3. Get the Redis PECL package… Continue reading

Windows 7 sometimes breaks FTP connections on Java 7 if firewall is enabled

Windows 7 sometimes breaks FTP connections on Java 7 if firewall is enabled. Command netsh advfirewall set global StatefulFTP disable   usually fixes the problem.