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Linux – CentOS – Install Mycrypt

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2 months ago
by Mike Purcell in , ,

I have been working with Magento and came across another hurdle. Magento requires the mycrypt PHP module to be compiled, otherwise you will not be able to complete the install process. So naturally I opened up a terminal and typed `yum install mcrypt` only to find that no such libraries existed. Apparently, the default repos don’t provide the mcrypt libraries any more, so I had to use the EPEL repo, which does provide access to the required mcrypt libraries.

The following steps outline how I successfully installed mcrypt libraries on my CentOS (6.x) system:

Localize EPEL Repo

rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm

To verify that it was installed correctly, you can type `$ -> yum repolist`

Disable EPEL Repo

I don’t like not knowing what is installed on my system, as such I didn’t want to keep the EPEL repo enabled by default. Rather, I preferred to tell YUM to use EPEL only when I directed it to do so. In order to accomplish this, you need to make the following changes:


# /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo

enabled=1

# to

enabled=0

Now, the EPEL repo will not automatically be considered when you go to install a new package. Convenient for ensuring your system stays as “vanilla” as possible.

Install Mcrypt

 $ -> yum install libmcrypt libmcrypt-devel mcrypt --enablerepo=epel

The libmcrypt-devel libraries are only necessary if you are going to install the PHP mcrypt module.

The above command will install the mcrypt libraries as provided by the EPEL repo.

Configure PHP

Now that we have mcrypt installed on our system, we can compile the PHP mcrypt module, first lets find out where mcrypt was installed:


$ -> which mcrypt

/usr/bin/mcrypt

Now that we know where mcrypt is installed we can add the following flag to our PHP configure for compilation: –with-mcrypt=/usr/bin

After configure be sure to run make, and make install, after they are complete you should be able to `php -m` and see mcrypt as a compiled module.

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Linux – CentOS – GIT – Version Mismatch – CentOS5 CentOS6

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4 months ago
by Mike Purcell in

Be careful when upgrading CentOS 5.x servers to 6.x with respect to GIT. On CentOS 5.x GIT was not available via default repo, so I compiled it manually and it was on version 1.7.6, but when I installed CentOS 6 and did a yum install for GIT, it was at version 1.7.1.

Glad that CentOS finally provided GIT via the default repo, I let yum handle the install, but when I went to start pushing code to my production box (with git 1.7.6) I kept getting GIT failures. Only after I upgraded my production box to CentOS6 and yum installed GIT, did my code push script work again.

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Linux – PHP – Apache – HTTP Error 500

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4 months ago
by Mike Purcell in , ,

Had a weird issue where my demo server was throwing 500 error when a request was made. I spent time digging into my nginx configs to see if there were a issue, once I was able to determine it was not nginx, I started tearing apart my apache vhosts to see what the issue was. It was tough to track down because neither nginx nor apache error logs were logging anything out of the ordinary.

I came across a serverfault.com post where someone suggested using the following command after making a request: 

find /var/log/ -mmin -1

This command will return any files whose modtimes are less than a minute old. When I issued the command I noticed that my PHP error log was listed, so I tailed the error log and issued another request. Sure enough, an exception was being thrown because my bootstrap file for my core library could not make a needed database connection.

Now that I was aware that an exception was causing my apache server to issue a 500 response, I still couldn’t figure out why it wasn’t outputting the exception message. I started digging around my php.ini file and found that I had set `display_errors=off`. With display_errors set to off, apache will issue a 500 response rather than output the exception, which is a good thing b/c the exception message had some database connection information.

So if you are setting up an apache/php server and it’s throwing a 500 response, check the php error log too, you may have the same setup.

Also, I read that this type of behavior will occur if the php.ini file could not be read.

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Linux – CentOS6 – Git – fatal – Where do you want to fetch from today?

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5 months ago
by Mike Purcell in ,

If you are using GIT as your version control and you attempt to do a `git pull` and get a “fatal: Where do you want to fetch from today?” message, you need to do either of the following:

# Specify the remote repo
mkdir repo
cd repo && git init
git pull git@github.com:user/repo.git

# Or
# Clone the repo
mkdir repo
cd repo && git clone git pull git@github.com:user/repo.git .
git pull
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Linux – CentOS6 – httpd – mod_file_cache – mod_mem_cache – mod_imagemap – Cannot Load into Server – Cannot Open Shared Object

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5 months ago
by Mike Purcell in

If you are upgrading from CentOS5 to CentOS6 and attempt to start httpd, you may come across a message similar to: “Starting httpd: httpd: Syntax error on line 196 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Cannot load /etc/httpd/modules/mod_file_cache.so into server: /etc/httpd/modules/mod_file_cache.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory”. Apparently the removal of some apache mods was an upstream decision which CentOS passed through to us. You can find more information here.

The quick fix is to remove these references from your httpd.conf file, however if you depend on these modules being available, you will have to download and compile manually.

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Linux – CentOS – SELinux – Cannot Start httpd – Permission to httpd.conf Denied

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5 months ago
by Mike Purcell in

If you are attempting to start apache (httpd) and get permission denied errors, chances are your SELinux is enabled, and not configured to allow httpd connections. Use the following commands to get your httpd working.

# To view current selinux settings related to httpd:
getsebool -a | fgrep -i httpd

# To "pinhole" SELinux to allow httpd to start correctly:
setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect 1
setsebool -P httpd_enable_homedirs 1

Linux – Ruby – Capistrano – GIT – No Such File or Directory – Errno::ENOENT

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5 months ago
by Mike Purcell in

If you are running capistrano to execute commands on another server and get a message that looks like:

No such file or directory - /usr/local/git/bin/git ls-remote git@github.com:user/repo.git master (Errno::ENOENT)

Be sure the user whom you are logging in as through capistrano has access to `git`. To test whether the user has access, ssh as the user and type `git`, if you get a bash error, then set the path in the user’s ~/.bash_profile. Otherwise you should see a list of git options.

Linux – CentOS6 – Ruby – It seems your ruby installation is missing psych

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5 months ago
by Mike Purcell in ,

If you are compiling ruby from source on a CentOS box, you may come across a “it seems your ruby installation is missing psych” message. To fix this issue you will also need to compile libyaml. If you installed libyaml to a custom directory you will need to let ruby know during configuration:

 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/_custom/app/ruby --with-opt-dir=/usr/local/_custom/app/libyaml/

Now, after you have done `make && make install` you should be able to run ruby without the error message.

Linux – CentOS6 – Adding or Updating Custom Gateway

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5 months ago
by Mike Purcell in

Just started working with CentOS6 and came across an issue where I found it difficult to add a gateway for my eth0 interface. The netinstall I conducted didn’t appear to have an entry area for it (or I may have missed it). If you need to add or update your gateway do the following:

vi /etc/sysconfig/network

NETWORKING=yes
GATEWAY=192.168.0.254

/etc/init.d/network restart

Now your gateway should be working as expected.

Linux – CentOS – 6 – Installing Percona MySQL

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5 months ago
by Mike Purcell in

If you are looking to install Percona MySQL on a CentOS 6 server, you will need to install the ‘Percona-Server-shared-compat.x86_64′ package, if you don’t, you will end up with errors when installing the ‘Percona-Server-server-55.x86_64′ package.

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