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

VirtualBox: Fixing piix4_smbus 0000.00.07.0: SMBus base address uninitialized – upgrade bios or use force_addr=0xaddr

If you see the following error message when booting Arch Linux: == piix4_smbus 0000.00.07.0: SMBus base address uninitialized – upgrade bios or use force_addr=0xaddr == To fix this, add "blacklist i2c_piix4" to file /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf == blacklist i2c_piix4 ==

Linode: Install mysql from package

  # pacman -S mysql resolving dependencies… looking for inter-conflicts… Targets (3): libmysqlclient-5.5.30-7  mysql-clients-5.5.30-7  mysql-5.5.30-7 Total Download Size:    12.81 MiB Total Installed Size:   123.89 MiB Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y :: Retrieving packages from extra…  libmysqlclient-5.5.30-7-x86_64        3.4 MiB   129K/s 00:27 [##################################] 100%  mysql-clients-5.5.30-7-x86_64       834.8 KiB   115K/s 00:07 [##################################] 100%  mysql-5.5.30-7-x86_64                … Continue reading