Ive been a big fan of Speedtest.Net for a long time, back when I was in Broadband Tech Support we used to advise customers to test using this site rather than others they found or knew about already. Unfortunately they seem to be adding more and more adverts onto the site the last few years […]
multiple versions of php with apache
NOTE: This is a Work In Progress post, published in note form for now, will revisit at later date. steps to allow multiple versions of php with apache on centos 7 #remove current php and replace target repo sudo yum remove php\* sudo yum-config-manager –disable webtactic sudo yum install centos-release-scl #install php56 sudo yum -y […]
switching apache from mod_php to php-fpm
NOTE: This is a Work In Progress post, published in note form for now, will revisit at later date. steps to move apache away from mod_php and onto php-fpm sudo yum remove php56w sudo yum install php56w-fpm sudo nano /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf listen = 127.0.0.1:9000 ;listen = /run/php-fpm/www.sock sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/virtualhost.conf # configure default php-fpm version #SetHandler […]
Twitter videos fail with “The media could not be played.”
one of the first things I do when installing the Firefox on Fedora usually involves twitter so its quickly apparent on Fedora that videos and animated gifs (they convert animated gif’s to videos) dont play and show an error “The media could not be played.” A while ago Cisco come to the worlds rescue regarding […]
Fedora: WiFi broken on Broadcom BCM43142
I have the Lenovo Yoga 2 11s and after each Fedora major version upgrade the WiFi fails. This is due to Broadcom not having any free kernel modules so I need to install separately and as I never remember Im making a list, if you found your way here hopefully they will help you too. […]