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Contribs.org Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: mmccarn on October 15, 2011, 05:19:39 PM
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I am trying to install and evaluate The Bug Genie (http://www.thebuggenie.com/) on my SME8b6 system.
Requirements include
- PHP 5.3 (notes (http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6766))
- Disable MagicQuotes:
db accounts setprop tbg AllowOverride All
echo 'php_flag magic_quotes_gpc Off' > /home/e-smith/files/ibays/tbg/html/.htaccess
signal-event remoteaccess-update- PCRE v8 or higher
The install gives the following message and refuses to proceed:PCRE librairies version is too old
The Bug Genie 3 requires PCRE librairies 8.0 or later. You have version 6.6 06-Feb-2006.
Update your system to the latest release from your usual sources.
The only place I've found a possibly appropriate version of a pcre-8.x rpm is at http://pkgs.org/centos-5-rhel-5/utter-ramblings-i386/pcre-8.02-1.jason.1.i386.rpm.html, pointing to a repository I've never heard of before named 'Utter Ramblings'.
Questions
- Is there a version of pcre-8.x somewhere that will work with SME8b6?
- Is a version from 'Utter Ramblings' likely to work, or will it conflict with other SME components?
- If 'Utter Ramblings' is OK, how do I determine the correct rpm to download?
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I noticed that 'utterramblings' is mentioned as a repo on in the Centos wiki, so I decided to risk using it to update pcre.
I did this (based on the settings for configuring the dag repo):
/sbin/e-smith/db yum_repositories set utterramblings repository \
Name 'UtterRamblings' \
BaseURL 'http://www.jasonlitka.com/media/EL$releasever/$basearch/' \
EnableGroups no \
GPGCheck yes \
GPGKey http://www.jasonlitka.com/media/RPM-GPG-KEY-jlitka \
Visible no \
IncludePkgs pcre \
status enabled
repo setup command modified per note from gregswallow below
Then I did this:
signal-event yum-modify
yum --enablerepo=utterramblings update pcre
sv t httpd-e-smith
So far everything looks OK; I'll report back here if I observe any problems with my SME.
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Instead of listing what you exclude, it might be better to use:
IncludePkgs pcre
...so you don't inadvertently install something else from that repo
and
status enabled
...so you get notified of updates/fixes.
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Thanks!
I did this:
* run 'yum update' to confirm that I had no pending updates
* modify the repo setup as you recommended (and update my original post to match)
* run 'yum update' again to verify that no unwanted updates are being offered
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Thanks! It also solves a problem with CakePHP's console...
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As a follow up post it appears the site has been moved to - http://yum.jasonlitka.com
Will edit after trying the new code.
/sbin/e-smith/db yum_repositories set utterramblings repository \
Name 'UtterRamblings' \
BaseURL 'http://yum.jasonlitka.com/EL$releasever/$basearch/' \
EnableGroups no \
GPGCheck yes \
GPGKey http://yum.jasonlitka.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-jlitka \
Visible no \
IncludePkgs pcre \
status enabled
Works......
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db accounts setprop tbg AllowOverride All
echo 'php_flag magic_quotes_gpc Off' > /home/e-smith/files/ibays/tbg/html/.htaccess
signal-event remoteaccess-update
A better solution is to disable magic quotes within a location container in httpd.conf using a custom template. .htaccess files are inherently less secure, since the potential exists for them to be modified by a compromised php application, or some other way, e.g. via samba access.
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A better solution is to disable magic quotes within a location container in httpd.conf using a custom template. .htaccess files are inherently less secure, since the potential exists for them to be modified by a compromised php application, or some other way, e.g. via samba access.
I'm pretty sure we don't need to do anything to disable magic_quotes_gpc any more, as it is now forcefully set to 'off' in /etc/php.ini:
Bug 7522 (http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7522) (SME 8.1)
Bug 7605 (http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7605) (SME 9.0b1)