Today, after upgrading packages with apt-get on a server running Debian Lenny my PEAR installation seemed to be broken. PHP had been updated to 5.2.10 and PEAR version was now 1.8.0. So when I realised that PEAR wasn’t the latest stable I tried upgrading PEAR using the command I’ve always used: pear upgrade pear, where [...]

This quick tutorial will show you how to set up a FreeBSD machine (based on minimal install) to run as a web server using Apache 2.2.x, PHP 5 and MySQL 5. This tutorial is based on FreeBSD 7.2 (the current stable release at the time of this writing). This tutorial builds on the minimal installation [...]