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PHP/Apache running on Linux won’t connect to a PostgreSQL server

SELinux will block PHP/Apache from connecting to PostgreSQL (and probably any other DB) by default on some Linux distributions. If you are trying to get PHP to connect to a PostreSQL DB on a linux box for the first time and you are sure your pg_hba.conf on the target box is setup correctly then try [...]

National Broadband Map Review

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) in collaboration with the FCC has published a series of broadband maps on a new site called National Broadband Map (NBM). These maps show what broadband services are available throughout the United States as well as other interesting broadband data. Hit this link and click the “Explorer the [...]

Limited screen resolutions running CentOS as a VirtualBox guest

If you are attempting to run a newer version of CentOS as a guest on VirtualBox you need to install the “Guest Additions” on your CentOS VM to enable higher display resolutions. If you don’t, 800×600 and 640×480 will probably be your only options. This is in the manual of course but if you were [...]

Php-cgi.exe application error on IIS with FastCGI

I recently installed PHP 5.2.14 on a Windows 2003 machine running IIS 6 with FastCGI to do some PHP testing at home. I chose the fast CGI install and added several extensions during the install including Curl and Oracle. When I attempted pull a test page after the install completed, I saw the following php-cgi.exe [...]

How to get the contents of an Oracle CLOB data field in PHP

The Oracle “CLOB” (Character Large Object) is a data type used to store up to 4 Gigabytes of text. Retrieving the contents of a CLOB is not as intuitive as you might think. Let’s say you have a CLOB field/column named “mychars” in an Oracle DB table named “mytable” along with some other fields. You [...]