Install FFmpeg and FFmpeg-php on Centos 5 and Plesk

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

Run :

rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
yum -y install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel mplayer mencoder flvtool2
cd /usr/src
Download http://garr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ffmpeg-php/ffmpeg-php-0.6.0.tbz2
tar jxvf ffmpeg-php-0.6.0.tbz2
cd ffmpeg-php-0.6.0
phpize
./configure
make
make install

Edit /etc/php.ini and add :

extension=ffmpeg.so

and then:

service httpd restart

Update php in Plesk

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

Run:

Download http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic.sh
sh atomic.sh
yum update php

How much disk space a database takes?

Monday, May 24th, 2010

Login to mysql and run :

select SUM(data_length) + SUM(index_length) as size from information_schema.tables where table_schema = ‘your_database’;

How to redirect my website to be opened through HTTPS?

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

In order to redirect your website to be opened through HTTPS, you should add the following rewrite rule in your .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule .* https://www.domain.com/%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]

This will redirect your domain to https://www.yourdomain.com. If you wish the redirect to work without www, you should remove it from the rewrite rule:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule .* https://domain.com/%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]