Use Composer with Kohana 3.3

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Kohana 3.3 has a file named “composer.json” in the root of the project, however it is not configured for Kohana and Composer is not installed.

This example is tested on a Mac. Windows users will need to install Composer from the instructions on the Composer project site, at http://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md.

Install Composer

First, modify composer.json to tell composer where to install libraries.

to:

{
	"config": {
		"vendor-dir": "application/vendor"
	},
	"require": {
		"phpunit/phpunit": "3.7.24",
		"phing/phing": "dev-master"
	}
}

Open a terminal and navigate to the root of your Kohana project.

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
php composer.phar install

Modify Kohana’s bootstrap.php File

Add this to bootstrap. Right above the router configuration is a good spot.

/**
 * Autoload composer libraries
 * 
 */
require APPPATH . 'vendor/autoload.php';

Adding a Library

You can either edit composer.json with your required library (and then re-run the install command above), or use the composer require verb from the command line to add the library, which also modifies composer.json.

php composer.phar require "monolog/monolog" "1.6.0"

The monolog package page is https://packagist.org/packages/monolog/monolog. Note that you need the package name for the first parameter and the version for the second parameter.

Drop MySQL Tables by Partial Name

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This is an excerpt from Adminbuntu, a site for Ubuntu Server administrators:

http://www.adminbuntu.com/drop_mysql_tables_by_partial_name

IMPORTANT! First back up your database!

This procedure will allow you to drop many tables at once where each table name to be dropped starts with the same string.

There are two steps in the procedure:

  • Create a MySQL statement file containing all the DROP commands called drop_commands.sql
  • Run the drop_commands.sql file

1. Create drop_commands.sql File

This creates a MySQL statement file that will drop all tables that begin with a specified string.

  • Replace STRING1 with the string to match
  • Replace USERNAMEHERE with the MySQL user to use
  • Replace PASSWORDHERE with the correct password
  • Replace DATABASENAMEHERE with the name of the database
mysql --user=USERNAMEHERE --password=PASSWORDHERE -e "SELECT table_name FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_NAME LIKE 'STRING1%' AND TABLE_SCHEMA='DATABASENAMEHERE' " | grep -v table_name | xargs -L 1 echo "DROP TABLE " | sed "s/\$/;/" | sed -e '1 i SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 0;'| sed -e '$s@$@\nSSET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 1;@' >drop_commands.sql

2. Execute the drop_commands.sql Command File

Examine drop_commands.sql to make sure it is doing what you want.

less drop_commands.sql

Run the drop_commands.sql text file through the mysql interpreter to drop all the selected tables.

mysql --user=USERNAMEHERE --password=PASSWORDHERE DATABASENAMEHERE < drop_commands.sql

Drop All Tables in a MySQL Database

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This is an excerpt from Adminbuntu, a site for Ubuntu Server administrators:

http://www.adminbuntu.com/drop_all_tables_in_a_database

IMPORTANT: This is a dangerous command. Back up the database first!

Drop all tables in a database, without dropping the database itself.

This creates a MySQL statement file that will drop all tables that begin with a certain string.

  • Replace USERNAMEHERE with the MySQL user to use
  • Replace PASSWORDHERE with the correct password
  • Replace DATABASENAMEHERE with the name of the database
mysql --user=USERNAMEHERE --password=USERNAMEHERE -BNe "SHOW TABLES" DATABASENAMEHERE | tr '\n' ',' | sed -e 's/,$//' | awk '{print "SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 0;DROP TABLE IF EXISTS " $1 ";SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 1;"}' | mysql --user=USERNAMEHERE --password=USERNAMEHERE DATABASENAMEHERE

Upgrading Ubuntu Server to lastest LTS version

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From Adminbuntu, Everything for the Ubuntu Server Administrator

This is an excerpt from Adminbuntu, a site for Ubuntu Server administrators:

http://www.adminbuntu.com/upgrading_ubuntu_server_to_lastest_lts_version

If possible, don’t use SSH when upgrading a server. On Linode, you can use their Lish terminal, available from the virtual server’s console page.

This was tested while upgrading a 10.04 LTS Ubuntu Server to 12.04 LTS. The test server was a production web server with a large number of packages installed and configuration changes.

Back up the Server First

If your virtual hosting provider offers image backups, this is a good option. The important thing is knowing for certain that you can restore/recreate the server in case the upgraded server is not left in a bootable, usable condition.

Install the Upgrade Manager

sudo aptitude -y install update-manager-core

Double-check Configuration File

Run this command to check whether “/etc/update-manager/release-upgrades” has the line “Prompt=lts”.

[[ `grep Prompt=lts /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades` = 'Prompt=lts' ]] && echo '"/etc/update-manager/release-upgrades" is Ok' || echo 'Edit /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades and add line "Prompt=lts"'

If the line is not present edit “/etc/update-manager/release-upgrades” with:

sudo vi /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades

…and add the line:

Prompt=lts

Run the Upgrade Manger

sudo do-release-upgrade

Follow the on-screen instructions.

When this was tested on a production server:

  • The upgrade went smoothly.
  • When prompted for a new MySQL root password (sever times during the upgrade) Enter was pressed without entering a new password. The existing MySQL password was retained by the server with no issues.
  • When the upgrade manager encountered a configuration file with custom changes, the existing, modified configuration file was retained (not replaced with the distribution default configuration file). This worked well. The only change needed after upgrading was adding a new line to phpMyAdmin’s configuration file that was needed for the new phpMyAdmin version.

Google PageSpeed Apache Module on Ubuntu Server

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From Adminbuntu, Everything for the Ubuntu Server Administrator

This is an excerpt from Adminbuntu, a site for Ubuntu Server administrators:

http://www.adminbuntu.com/google_pagespeed_module_on_apache

PageSpeed speeds up your website and reduces page load time. The PageSpeed Apache module automatically applies web performance best practices to pages and assets like CSS, JavaScript and images, without requiring site modification.

PageSpeed Project Page: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module

Installation

Determine Whether 32-bit or 64-bit Ubuntu Server is Installed

if [[ `uname -a` == *_64* ]] ; then echo '64-bit' ; else echo '32-bit' ; fi

Download the PageSpeed Apache Module

  • Using your web browser, navigate to https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module/download.
  • Look on the right side of the page, under Latest Stable Version and right-click on either the 32-bit or 64-bit .deb package (based on whether you are running 32-bit or 64-bit Ubuntu Server. Select Copy Link Address to get the download link in your clipboard.
    In your server’s terminal use wget to download the module.

This this example, the link for the 32-bit .deb file is https://dl-ssl.google.com/dl/linux/direct/mod-pagespeed-stable_current_i386.deb: 

wget https://dl-ssl.google.com/dl/linux/direct/mod-pagespeed-stable_current_i386.deb

Install the PageSpeed Apache Module

sudo dpkg -i mod-pagespeed-*.deb
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo service apache2 restart

Test Installation

You can verify that the PageSpeed module is installed and enabled with:

[[ -a '/etc/apache2/mods-enabled/pagespeed.conf' ]] ; then echo 'pagespeed is enabled' ; else echo 'pagespeed is not enabled' ; fi

Flushing PageSpeed Server-Side Cache

When developing web pages with PageSpeed enabled, it is sometimes necessary to flush the server’s PageSpeed cache to get the system to reload CSS or JavaScript files that have been updated before the cache lifetime expires.

To do this, touch the file cache.flush:

sudo touch /var/cache/mod_pagespeed/cache.flush

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