Liam Bailey's questions

I have just set up the .com of a domain that previous ran on .co.uk on the same server, I have copied all the files, ran through them using bash to change the domain anywhere it was referenced, same for DB, and all went great, same with the redirect. But now I want to move the cron jobs across using bash.

I was thinking

sudo cat /var/spool/cron/sbadmin | while read -r line; do echo $line;done > /var/spool/cron/sbcomadmin

But permission is denied on the new file. How can permission be denied when I am in sudo mode?

The domain will need changing in the new cron file aswell but I was thinking I could use sed on that, either during the copy or after.

I have a big problem. I have just upgraded to a new dedicated server running Plesk 10, and Ubuntu 11.04 and my scripts can't run file_get_contents or curl to external urls in cgi mode. allow_url_fopen is set to On in the correct php.ini file but still I get the following error.

file_get_contents(http://www.google.com): failed to open stream: Permission denied

Curl request returns false with this:

function get_data($url)
{
  // create a new cURL resource
$ch = curl_init();

// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);

// grab URL and pass it to the browser
$data = curl_exec($ch);

// close cURL resource, and free up system resources
curl_close($ch);
 var_dump($data);
}    
get_data("http://www.google.com");//bool(false)

Both (file_get_contents and curl) run fine in scripts run from command line and from cron and both run fine when php is run as apache module. It is just when running in browser and as a cgi or fastcgi application that the problem arises. I have had the hosting company on all day with no luck. Any help gratefully received.

This morning I used yum upgrade to upgrade from php 5.1.6 to 5.3+ I then went to one of my sites and found that it had crashed, error establishing database connection.

I found through this question install php on linux from 1and1 VPS that this is because centos5 is outdated, and I was offered the alternative of doing it using individual packages by MadHatter.

I have just tried that solution and then checked my php version, and it hadn't upgraded. I have just learned that this is because my server software is Virtuozzo/Plesk and that these have a version of php of their own, seperate to that of the live sites, it turns out that I was working on the server's version of php with Yum.

Is there any way I can change yum to work on my version of php, or any other suggestions. My phpinfo() is at http://www.spotblue.co.uk/phpinfo.php

I am tearing out my hair, so any help gratefully received.

I am experienced in PHP, but I have never installed it. We have just upgraded onto a VPS from 1and1 and now we need to upgrade php ourselves apparently. We want to go from 5.1.4 to the latest, but don't know where to start. I looked here

http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.unix.apache2.php

But I can't find the apxs path.

I was hoping to find someone who had experience of doing this on 1and1 vps, but failing that here is the link that shows my phpinfo, http://spotblue.co.uk/phpinfo.php

I was hoping you may be able to direct me from that. I am willing to answer as many questions to get this clear, as I know the first time will be the hardest.