Technical Lead based in Manchester, UK

cPanel Error:The system experienced the following error when it attempted to install the “OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set V3.0” vendor


I’ve noticed that since upgrading cPanel to v68.0.28 our ModSecurity Vendors have dropped off, and no longer available in the interface, and the rules are no longer available for Apache. When trying to add the OWASP Ruleset (Vendor) back, I get the following error message. Error:The system experienced the following error when it attempted to install the “OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set V3.0” vendor: API failure: The system could not validate the new Apache configuration because httpd exited with a nonzero value.…
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Install PHP 5.6 on CentOS/RHEL 7 via YUM (Webtatic and IUS)


Again, another brain dump for future use. A stock installation of CentOS 7 will be packaged with PHP 5.4 which is now end of life. This is how to install PHP 5.6, which is currently only receiving security updates. Side note: These commands install the basic PHP requirements for Magento. Installing PHP 5.6 on CentOS 7 via Webtatic $ rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm $ rpm -Uvh https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el7/webtatic-release.rpm $ yum install php56w php56w-opcache php56w-xml php56w-mcrypt php56w-gd php56w-devel php56w-mysql php56w-intl php56w-mbstring php56w-bcmath php56w-soap Installing PHP 5.…
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Centovacast - Getting Listener Statistics via MySQL


We ran into a little issue with our Centovacast installation last month. It turns out, that if you have a few large radio stations using the same server, the MySQL Database tables get rather full (20 million rows), and when trying to pull the data back into the Centovacast interface was causing some issues (timeout and 500 errors etc). Which ultimately meant our customers could not retrieve the statistics they needed.…
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