Cheshire PHP problem - was Re: [WBEL-users] What your choice of Linux distribution says about you

[bishop]

Jason,

That sounds like an odd problem for sure.  Have you a procedure or 
method of duplicating the state this box was in before you reinstalled 
all that?  I'm wondering if a %post was setting something based on the 
existence of something else - a no no - that wandered away afterward.

Dare I hope that everything was installed from RPMs?

I'm thinking that I may be able to replicate this setup, with your help 
becuase I have never used PHPNuke, and find out the cause of this.  The 
goal, of course, would be to remove what seems to be a problem based on 
the order in which things were installed.

The order in which things install shouldn't ever be a factor, and your 
situation leaves me perplexed for sure.

NB:  In the days when all my servers were similar, I used virtual RPMs 
to devise profiles that were then installed by a single Apt invocation. 
  The same can perhaps be done with Yum, and can make your task of 
bringing new servers online that much easier.  You may want to look into 
it all.

  - bish

Jason Balicki wrote:

> I have one WBEL server running in a production environment,
> with a second coming on line this weekend.
> 
> I had a little trouble with the newest box, I'm migrating
> existing services to it and I had trouble with our Intranet
> application (running on PHP-Nuke).  Everything else was fine,
> but for some reason I had to completely remove httpd, mysql
> and php and reinstall them, then PHP-Nuke magically worked.
> 
> It occurred to me after the fact that WBELs wobble, but they
> don't fall down.
> 
> --J(K)
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