twocups.chabout software developmentMenuSkip to contentHomephp recode on FreeBSD / Apache 2.4Leave a replyIn my installation of Apache HTTP Server 2.4 and PHP 5.5 on FreeBSD 9.2 there is always the same problem. On every upgrade of Apache and / or PHP I forget to disable the RECODE extension of PHP.I don’t really know why I selected it when doing a make config in the first place. But on every update I don’t really think about it and do not exclude it either. Making things worse, I don’t seem to remember it when Apache crashes because the extension is included in php.ini. Every time I wonder why my Apache HTTPD is crashing without leaving any trace of an error within my logs.So the search begins. Disabling modules one after another to figure out which module could possible be the faulty one. Until I turn off php and slowly remember that it was something about the php extensions. Then I go through them, turn one off an turn them back on again. Until I finally reach that recode extension and remember that all that work could have been solved by just one character at the right place. A semicolon (;) in front of the lineextension=recode.so1extension=recode.soSo let this post be a reminder for my own stupidity in the hope that I remember it next time I upgrade my ports to the latest stable releases and Apache Web server and / or PHP is part of this upgrade.Cheers!This entry was posted in FreeBSD on 2013-10-19 by oli.Installing Hudson CILeave a replyA few days ago I started to write about Continuous Integration and what it should mean in our business landscape. Now I’d like to write about a tool called Hudson.The Hudson project is developed by a big community and is hosted by the Eclipse Foundation. It’s used to automate just about anything within software development (and in other areas). Here I’ll describe the use with a software project to automatically compile and test the sources.What you’ll needHudson CI runns on every system that runs Java. The minimum Java version is 1.6. You can run Hudson in standalone mode, as it brings it’s own Servlet Container with it. If you want to start it within a servlet container, the minimum requirements are Servlet 2.4/JSP 2.0 or later. Tomcat 7 is an example of a capable servlet container.Install on Tomcat 7That’s almost too easy. Install Tomcat, put the war file in the webapps directory and you’re good to go. You can even install it as the ROOT application.That was the very basic way. To install Hudson CI on Tomcat for a local installation this is certainly good enough. On the server it probably isn’t. The following reasons:Hudson Home directory is in the users home directory.So, to solve this problem you simply set a environment variable HUDSON_HOME to set the data directory for Hudson. You can do this in several ways.Set a environment variable in the start script of tomcat.Set a global environment variable.Add an environment entry in the context