Hosh Sadiq's questions

I have a main php.ini file and am wondering if it is possible to specify a custom php.ini for a virtualhost, but this php.ini would extend the main php.ini file, so that only the specified settings are overridden and everything else is taken the main php.ini. For example:

I have my main php.ini file in /etc/php5/php.ini, containing all the defaults. Let's say this has everything as default so e.g.

allow_url_fopen = On
allow_url_include = Off

Then I have my virtualhost located at /home/user/php.ini and this contains the following:

allow_url_fopen = Off

This php would run with first the php.ini in /etc/php5/php.ini then the settings that are in /home/user/php.ini resulting in a configuration where both allow_url_fopen and allow_url_include are set to Off.

Edit: Also, if /home/user/php.ini does not exist, it would default back to /etc/php5/php.ini

I'm trying to run the passenger-install-apache2-module so I can install Redmine on CentOS 5.8, but passenger-install-apache2-module tells me I need Curl development headers with SSL support, which it tells me I can install using yum install curl-devel, however, when I run that I get the following results:

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities, protectbase
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: ftp.pbone.net
 * extras: ftp.pbone.net
 * remi: remi-mirror.dedipower.com
 * updates: ftp.pbone.net
120 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
0 packages excluded due to repository protections
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package curl-devel.i386 0:7.15.5-15.el5 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: curl = 7.15.5-15.el5 for package: curl-devel
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
curl-devel-7.15.5-15.el5.i386 from base has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: curl = 7.15.5-15.el5 is needed by package curl-devel-7.15.5-15.el5.i386 (base)
Error: Missing Dependency: curl = 7.15.5-15.el5 is needed by package curl-devel-7.15.5-15.el5.i386 (base)
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
                        package-cleanup --dupes
                        rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

Now I'm not amazing with linux stuff, however, I think this tells me that I need version curl if I want to install curl-devel (makes sense). But I know I have curl install, and I do curl -V to test if it is actually install, and this gives me:

curl 7.21.7 (i686-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.21.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8b zlib/1.2.3 libidn/0.6.5 libssh2/1.2.7
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtsp scp sftp smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: AsynchDNS GSS-Negotiate IDN IPv6 Largefile NTLM SSL libz

So I think the problem is the difference in versions, however, I have no idea where to go from here.

So my question is, how do I install curl-devel properly?

BTW: I did try what yum told me to try at the end:

 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
                        package-cleanup --dupes
                        rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

I have a SVN repository which was running locally when I had an old installation of Windows. After reinstalling Windows, obviously the old SVN server installation was removed, and now I have no idea how to still use this old repository? I haven't tried the svn create on the old server, as I am afraid that I'll lose everything in the repo?

I need to either still be able to use this using any SVN server software, or convert it to git. Either is fine!

Any help would be appreciated.