Justin Silver Blog

Linux

SFTP access via chroot on CentOS

Install OpenSSH 5.6 to get chroot support: Validate that you have 5.6 installed: Update /etc/ssh/sshd_config to have the following (comment out existing subsystem line) Set the user’s home directory to be just USER when...

Linux

phpMyAdmin + CentOS + Apache Worker MPM

After installing phpMyAdmin I kept getting the above error which reads: The mysqli extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration. <a href=”Documentation.html#faqmysql” target=”documentation”><img src=”themes/dot.gif” title=”Documentation” alt=”Documentation” /></a> I had run “yum install php-mysqli” with success,...

Photos

Venus Transit

Probably not going to see this again in my lifetime, but who knows. Venus Transit was last modified November 1st, 2012 by Justin Silver

Technology

Color Scale Generator

This is a generally useful color scale generator and picker. http://colorpicker.com/ Color Scale Generator was last modified November 12th, 2014 by Justin Silver

Technology

Write a Simple Caching Proxy Server with PHP and Memcached

I recently had an issue where a plugin was trying to download remote data and then cache it to a directory, but the problem was that the directory wasn’t writable and the 500kb file...

Linux

Install PHP Memcached() on CentOS 5

If you want to have direct access to the Memacache() object from PHP on CentOS, the easiest way is using yum and the Remi repository. To install the repository for various platforms, see http://blog.famillecollet.com/pages/Config-en...