Category Archives: Hosting

Hate 2Checkout

The other day I was shopping for new domain. From WHT I found a cheap domain registrar. I am using namecheap, but recent price hike make them no longer cheap as their name suggest. But their service is very good!

Which registrar is that? Internet.bs

Now. This internet.bs website really all over the place. But they have cheap price. (Actually one of my client have even cheaper domain price, but then need to register under his name – I don’t want that!)

After pick my domain and now come to payment. One that I recognize is 2Checkout. Back in my mind I think okay, this 2co seems more legit and I’ve read good review of them before.

So I just proceed.

What happen is, 2co deduct the value from my visa debit card, then go on do nothing. After few minutes I go and have online chat with internet.bs support. He told me that 2co hold the payment for manual review. This usually takes 3 ~ 6 hours and maximum of 24 hours.

This is just stupid!

Also there is no email explaining that also. If I did not go and contact internet.bs support I wont know a thing.

So there goes my rant. I hate 2co!

Setup Apache, PHP & MySQL in CentOS

I am trying out new VPS package. It’s from DMEHosting. Just for 3 dollar for first month. But since I am totally new to this VPS, I manage to screw it up within first 30 minutes.

In 30 minutes I apparently did rebuild the VPS 2 times. Reboot it for about 6 times. Boot it back 3 times. And the result it, I can’t access it. LOL. I submit a ticket, and it was resolved within 30 minutes. Tech support reply my ticket with “please don’t do multiple rebuild and reboot at the same time”.

Anyway, I settle down for CentOS 5. Particularly selecting with VNC so I can access its GUI when it’s needed. But for the time being SSH is all I need.

First the default OS comes with Apache already install (httpd). So all I did is ” yum groupinstall “MySQL Database” “. Then I found out that it did not have php installed by default so I run “yum install php-mysql” which it just nice.

But when browsing by browser, php is not rendered as PHP page instead it shows source code. Oh Shi*!

I google around and I found this site

From there I remove back what I previously install and run this command instead. I also remove default installed httpd by issuing “yum erase httpd”

yum install httpd

yum install php

yum install mysql-server mysql

service httpd start

service mysqld start

After that all run nicely :) Welcome to CentOS world!

Update on 17 Nov 2010: I forgot to install one important thing.

yum install php-mysql

This is to make sure php can communicate with mysql (or actually means load its extension). From there you might want to consider installing this too:

yum install php-mcrypt

yum install php-gd

php-mcrypt to make sure your phpmyadmin run without any error notification. php-gd is for you to use with image manipulation, particularly to generate captcha image.

Hosting glitches + Linux Mint 7

Today just after sahur I load up my linux mint 7 (just installed yeaterday).  Just to try out. I think linux mint is based on Kubuntu and to make it more obvious, it create partition named Kubuntu during partitioning process :) .

It have all the needed software to do normal task. Got firefox and konqueror browser. The update software inform me that I have 86 updates to be installed. Lucky me maxis wired broadband all of sudden become faster (around 220 kbps download) so all the updates takes me around 20 minutes or so.

During the updates I try to open this blog (and few other hosted on the same hosting) but somehow firefox refuse to render it instead prompt me to choose other software to open the file (phtml file) or save. What the F? Try in konqueror also the same.

Then I tried to clear the firefox cache. Mistakes! Mistakes! Mistakes! Linux Mint froze on the spot. I guess because update is running in background trying to update firefox (my wild guess lah). I had to force shutdown (press and hold the power button).

After that I boot back to windows xp (ya … No vista for me, thank you). Try to access this blog again. Same problems. Somehow I believe it lies on this server. Did send an e-mail to the customer support. Tired of waiting for reply. Access their websites then notice that their LiveSupport is live.

Yes. Confirm that it was the server problems. They’re upgrading the Apache and along the way it caused the problems. Now it’s all already fixed.

Just my Linux Mint 7 left unbootable. I guess it’s not so stable anymore. RIP Linux Mint 7.