Joomla! 1.6 requires PHP 5.3 or later to be installed. When requesting a new server, this is far less of a problem as many will be provisioned with PHP 5.3 already installed. What should you do, however, if you are running a version of CentOS prior to 5.6 you will need to manually update PHP before Joomla 1.6 will install.

In fact, even with Joomla 1.5 you may experience issues if you are running an earlier version of PHP. The latest build of Akeeba Backup, for example, requires PHP 5.3.

This post will detail the method you need to use to update from PHP 5.1 or 5.2 to PHP 5.3 (Note: These instructions should not be followed to update from PHP4 unless you know exactly what you are doing!)

Due to the wide range of software freely available under an Open Source License, users of Operating Systems such as Linux and the BSD’s are often stigmatised as being ‘cheapskates’. However, is this really fair? The Humble Indie Bundle suggests that users of Linux may in fact be more generous than their Mac and Windows loving counterparts.

There are hundreds of Linux Distributions available, each bringing it’s own unique set of benefits with many fulfilling some of the most niche requirements in the market. The US Department of Defense has recently added to this number by releasing Lightweight Portable Security (LPS)

We received a call just after midnight from a server administrator who was having difficulties with his mail server - to the point that his international clients were unable to receive email at the middle of their peak period.  Nobody else picked up the phone ... we did!

It wasn't too long ago that people using anything other than Windows as their operating systems were considered to be geeky boffins with some innate ability to control a computer by typing in commands to a black screen and who were determined to hack the world to death with a single mouse click ..... are the tides changing?

A while ago I posted about our in-house challenge to try and adopt each other's specialities in an exercise of broadening our knowledge and trying out new technologies .. my side of the bargain was to try out Linux as my main Operating System (OS).  Here's how I'm getting on so far!

Many people call me a geek, but my geekiness pales in comparison to Ben, our IT Manager.  For too long he has been pestering me to get used to using Linux and for too long I've been giving excuses .... and unfortunately I've just about exhausted them all!  So, in an exchange of roles, Ben is trying Joomla! out to design some websites, and I'm going to be taking Linux for a ride .... and blogging about it along the way too!