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Installing Nginx With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 10

Installing Nginx With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 10

Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on a Fedora 10 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

The birth of the preacher!

Hi All,

I’ve been thinking about contributing to the MySQL community for a while and given we’re at the end of 2008, starting 2009, I thought …. maybe this is actually the right preposition for the coming year. There will be many changes in my life in the next week and a half, amongst which a change of countries and jobs, thus this will be the third biggest challenge for me in the ninth year of this third millennium.

MySQL running out of disc space

Running out of disc space is not a good situation. However, if it does happen, it would be nice to have some control over what happens.

We use MyISAM. When you run out of disc space, MyISAM just sits there and waits. And waits, and waits, apparently forever, for some space to become available.

This is not good, because an auditing/logging application (which ours is) may have lots of available servers which it could send its data to - getting an error from one would simply mean that the data could be audited elsewhere.

But if the server just hangs, and waits, the application isn't (currently) smart enough to give up and try another server, so it hangs the audit process too. Which means that audit data starts to back up, and customers wonder why they can't see recent data in their reports etc.

There has to be a better way. I propose

  • A background thread monitors the disc …
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Today I recommended MySQL 5.1

Today I recommended that a customer begin using MySQL 5.1 for development of their new product. There is virtually no risk of doing this, and in fact, the risk of not doing so is quite material. Upgrading the database later would be silly when you could start using it now and find out [...]

Creating the LAMP stack on Mac OS X 10.5 (Does that make it a MAMP stack?)

So we all know about the good old LAMP stack... Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. It's a beautiful thing. I recently just started early development on a web application and instead of using Tomcat, Struts, Spring, Hibernate, or any of the Java-based frameworks that I am familiar with I've decided to take a step back to my programming past and use PHP with MySQL. Except this time, I'm using a Mac...

Let's start with my setup. I have a MacBook with OS X 10.5 (Leopard) so if you are running anything older this may not apply. Apache 2 and PHP 5 are shipped with 10.5 and I will talk about enabling them later.

The only piece we are missing is MySQL, and lucky us, they now make Mac binaries that you can find at www.mysql.com. Download the binary for the Mac (if you want to build the source get the tar.gz) and do the normal Mac install procedure. Once …

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Updating from MySQL 5.0 to 5.1 - what's your experience?

Now that MySQL 5.1 has finally been labeled and released as "GA", we have noticed quite a significant increase in the download numbers for 5.1. I find this quite promising, despite the comments from some people that suggested to stay away from it for now. I performed updates of 5.0 to 5.1 several times already, and did not observe any serious problem so far. But then again, I am by no means a power user, so your mileage may vary...

I assume that many of the users are already using some older versions of MySQL and will have to perform an upgrade from the previous version to the new one. As many things have been changed and improved between 5.0 and 5.1, an upgrade needs to be planned carefully. The MySQL reference manual has an entire chapter devoted to this subject. The best …

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Updating from MySQL 5.0 to 5.1 - what's your experience?

Now that MySQL 5.1 has finally been labeled and released as "GA", we have noticed quite a significant increase in the download numbers for 5.1. I find this quite promising, despite the comments from some people that suggested to stay away from it for now. I performed updates of 5.0 to 5.1 several times already, and did not observe any serious problem so far. But then again, I am by no means a power user, so your mileage may vary...

I assume that many of the users are already using some older versions of MySQL and will have to perform an upgrade from the previous version to the new one. As many things have been changed and improved between 5.0 and 5.1, an upgrade needs to be planned carefully. The MySQL reference manual has an entire chapter devoted to this subject. The best …

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MySQL Conference & Expo Speakers Announced and Registration Now Open!

Sun Microsystems and O'Reilly Media have now opened registration and unveiled the program for the seventh annual MySQL Conference & Expo, April 20-23, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. The world's largest open source database event unites over 2,000 MySQL enthusiasts to harness the power of MySQL and celebrate the huge MySQL community.

To register and learn about early registration discounts, please visit www.mysqlconf.com.

Continuous Integration is Not New!

There is no news flash: Continuous Integration is not new. It will, however, get a significant amount of attention during my upcoming tutorial session at the MySQL User Conference in April, where I am very pleased to be presenting Build and Release Management for Database Engineers.  I’m going to be talking about change management for […]

To Netherlands, UK over xmas and new year

Phoebe (my 3 1/2 year old daughter) and I are travelling "to Europe" tomorrow, for three weeks - should be a grand adventure! (so now you know what Open Query profits get spent on ;-)

Of course we're there to see my family, friends, and expose the Phoebster to a bit more Dutch lingo and culture; she understands it quite well but generally doesn't want to speak it (although she has done it ;-) so perhaps being surrounded by Dutchies (who've received specific instructions to not flip to English - Dutchies are useless for people trying to practice Dutch, any hint of foreignness and they switch to English or another common language) will help. Language = culture = heritage. And knowing a 2nd language is important for development; it doesn't matter much which language but might as well do one that has a connection for us.

While in NL, …

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