Day 2: Installing MovableType 5.2.3

12:45pm: Installed Net::SMTP::TLS Net::SMTP::SSL. Seems to install right after the avalanche of installing modules did not work. Hmmm.

12:50pm: Decided not to install PSGI related modules and other DB related modules except for DBI::mysql

12:54pm: Installed perl-Crypt-SSLeay package via YUM.

1:58pm: Ran mt-check.cgi, so far so good. Ran the Configuration Wizard. Installation complete!

Next agenda:
1. Switching to nginx
2. Using custom fields

Day 1: Prepping Server for MovableType 5.2.3

OK, here we go. I'll blog things down as I go.

Long before WordPress, blogging dinosaurs such as myself used MovableType. I've used MT from 1.x till pre-3.x when SixApart changed the licensing model which upset a lot of MT users. The changes in MT made users move to WP. You can find more about the MT/WP history here. You can also read about the contribution I made that made its way into the book Essential Blogging from O'Reilly.

I'm using Centos 5.9 VM with 4GB of memory, 2 Processors and 80GB of space. I'll be using Apache for the webserver (I'll make it work on nginx and lighttpd afterwards), MySQL 5.0.95 and Perl 5.8.8.

2:30pm: Installed httpd and mysql client & server:

yum install httpd mysql mysql-server

2:57pm: Installed Development Tools:

yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'

3:43pm: Installed required Perl modules:

perl -MCPAN -e shell << EOJ
install CGI Image::Size File::Spec CGI::Cookie DBI DBD::mysql Archive::Tar Archive::Zip Crypt::DSA Digest::MD5 Digest::SHA1 File::Temp GD HTML::Entities HTML::Parser Image::Magick IO::Compress::Gzip IO::Uncompress::Gunzip IPC::Run List::Util LWP::UserAgent Mail::Sendmail MIME::Base64 Safe Scalar::Util SOAP::Lite Storable Text::Balanced XML::Atom XML::Parser XML::SAX

exit

EOJ

3:55pm: Drank tea while Perl downloads and install the required CPAN modules.

4:24pm: As expected, not all CPAN modules were installed. Lets see what got not installed.

5:00pm: Had to disable selinux temporarily. Noted!

5:37pm: Installed gd, gd-progs, gd-devel, ImageMagick, ImageMagick-devel & ImageMagick-perl

6:00pm: Called it a day

Working with Movable Type

In a couple of days, I'll start using Movable Type, making it work while documenting everything. wish me luck!

Count number of days in PHP

$days = ($month == 2 ? ($year % 4 ? 28 : ($year % 100 ? 29 : ($year %400 ? 28 : 29))) : (($month - 1) % 7 % 2 ? 30 : 31));

PHP 5.2.17 on CentOS 5.6 Final

I'm running Citrix Xen Server and have a 5.6 VM. However, the PHP that's on CentOS 5.6 is currently 5.1.x. Here's a script that downloads and installs the required packages to run PHP 5.2.17 (I need 5.2.17 because I'm running Wordpress 3.0.6.

wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-bcmath-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-cli-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-common-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-dba-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-devel-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-eaccelerator-5.2.17_0.9.6.1-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-gd-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-imap-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-ldap-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-mbstring-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-mcrypt-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-mhash-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-mssql-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-mysql-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-ncurses-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-odbc-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-pdo-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-pgsql-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-readline-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-snmp-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-soap-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-tidy-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-xml-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
wget 'http://www.atoomnet.net/./php/php-5.2.17/php-xmlrpc-5.2.17-1.x86_64.rpm'
yum -y install autoconf automake net-snmp libc-client libmcrypt libmhash libsybdb unixODBC freetds mysql-server
rpm -Uvh *.rpm

Show MAC addresses on Cisco 2960 and where they're connected

sh mac address-table dynamic

Blocking machines on Cisco 2960 via MAC address

mac-address-table static 1caf.f735.411e vlan 1 drop

where 1caf.f735.411e is the MAC address of the machine you want to block.

Stuck on ROMMON

1. rommon #0> PORT=Ethernet0/0
Ethernet0/0
Link is UP
MAC Address: 001b.d554.512a
2. rommon #1> ADDRESS=10.10.10.1
3. rommon #2> SERVER=10.10.10.2
4. rommon #3> GATEWAY=10.10.10.2
5. rommon #4> IMAGE=asa804-23-k8.bin
6. rommon #5> tftp

After booting:
1. ciscoasa(config)# format flash
2. ciscoasa(config)# write mem
3. ciscoasa(config)# interface ethernet 0/0
4. ciscoasa(config-if)# ip address 10.10.10.1 255.0.0.0
5. ciscoasa(config-if)# no shut
6. ciscoasa(config-if)# name if outside
7. ciscoasa(config-if)# security-level 100
8. ciscoasa(config)# ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 10.10.10.2
9. ciscoasa# copy tftp: flash:
10. ciscoasa# write mem