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It’s always PITA when comes to situation where you want to upgrade an application on old / out dated Linux box. We came across to a situation where Horde is giving error, where actually PHP is the culprit who caused the problem.

Problem:

While configuring latest version of horde on an old Linux Box, test.php failed with error message shown in Apache Error Log:

PHP Fatal error:  Failed opening required ‘Horde/String.php’ (include_path=’/my/document/root/path/horde/libPATH_SEPARATOR/my/document/root/path/horde/lib:/my/document/root/path/horde:/my/document/root/path/horde/pear’) in /my/document/root/path/horde/lib/Horde/NLS.php on line 9″

Solution:

Link pear directory to /c/program/my_document/horde/ and add the following line to Apache Virtual Host :

php_admin_value include_path “.:/my/document/root/path/horde/lib:/my/document/root/path/horde:/my/document/root/path/horde/pear”

Guess it will temporary solve the problem but to solve it permanent it, upgrade the Linux box to FreeBSD

find out what is the capability of an network interface, e.g. :

ifconfig -m vr0

configure / set media types of a NIC, e.g :

ifconfig vr0 media 100baseTX
ifconfig vr0 media autoselect

configure / set network time server :

net time /setsntp:0.pool.ntp.org

start the network time services :

net stop w32time

net start w32time

check whether network time is in sync :

net time /querysntp

By default, windows 2k server does not activate this function. Do this to activate it :

• start regedit
• goto HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Command Processor
• change the keyword “CompletionChar” from 64 to 9
• close all command line window and start and new window

Voila!

Have you thinking of tweaking the ports for some reason, e.g. sources downloading are slow, checksum error from a site and etc. Below are the configs and directories :

ports file is store at /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/

source downloaded are kept in /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/

Happy tweaking !!!