Source compilation of Apache is a part Apache server administration. Let us see the steps, Basics of Compilation of Apache with PHP Here we are going to install apache using the source only. The choice of Operating System here is Linux (distro: Centos). The procedure we follow here will lead to a simple apache installation […]

Since we are in Magento technical support we sometimes get this error while entering the magento admin home page after login. The home page has a number of warnings and talks about locales. A sample error listing shown is: Warning: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: (null)(null)/home/runinsty/public_html/paths/lib/Zend/Locale/Data/ko.xml:2780: parser error : out of memory error in /home/runinsty/public_html/paths/lib/Zend/Locale/Data.php on line 146 […]

Rar archived files are very common these days and in linux administration we have to find a solution for rar file extraction and compression in linux. To extract rar files we have the unrar application. To use unrar to extract use the following commands: unrar e <filename.rar> use this to unpack the rar file in […]

This is a rare issue found in certain VPSes purchased as a part of our VPS hosting support recently. There will be no problem within the system but yum will refuse to function properly. No installations or updations will be possible with yum. All you get to see is a collection of error statements in […]

On Linux server monitoring, we might came across the terms server Load Average and CPU usage. Take a look at the brief explanation on both of them given below. Load Average and CPU usage in Linux ==================================== The three common commands that give the load average details are: * uptime * w * top * […]