Mike's Blog
Serving multiple Symfony apps from one project with one vhost
I have created this simple three step approach for a Symfony project to switch application contexts while respecting the desire to have a global project-wide config file, vhost and default mod_rewrite configuration.
PHP and Slots in Gentoo
I had a gut-feeling using slots to quickly switch between different versions of PHP in Gentoo would be straightforward and it was. The only piece of the puzzle that eluded me for a while, in the end, was working out how to tell portage to install a specific version. This is acheieved with an equals sign. As such: (Assuming in this instance 5.2 is already installed.)
Detaching a PHP script from the shell on Ubuntu
I've learnt that detaching a PHP script from the shell and allowing it run as a daemon on Ubuntu is not as simple as I first thought. I couldn't simply add an ampersand like this:
$ php ./script &