Adding PHP5.6 GD After PHP Upgrade

May 14th, 2017

I upgraded my local server’s PHP version to 5.6 recently (here’s how I did it) and all was well until I realised that PHP GD was missing (why won’t upgrades ever go smoothly for me???).

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SSL on Ubuntu 14.04

March 17th, 2015

I wanted to have a secure connection to my personal web server so I went online to find a tutorial on how to install an SSL (TSL these days) certificate and I found one on www.digitalocean.com.

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Install Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP on Ubuntu 14.04

March 3rd, 2015

This is how I installed Apache, MySQL and PHP on my Ubuntu 14.04 server. Thanks to www.digitalocean.com for this lovely and easy to follow tutorial and www.liquidweb.com for the PHPMyAdmin integration with Apache.

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Apache File Upload and Max Upload Size

January 31st, 2015

If you’re like me and you always try to do things yourself, then you have probably tried hosting a website yourself: whether it was for your personal use or otherwise.

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