XP-rience

While performing a routine XAMPP (under Linux) healthy check, I've found out some log files had grown up to about 8GB. This might cause the system to slow down. Searching for a solution from the net lead me to this, rotatelogs. To use this rotatelogs it needs to be piped in the XAMPP httpd.conf which is located at /opt/lampp/etc/httpd.conf. So I comment out the 2 original lines and add 2 lines with rotatelogs piped to them like below;


Next is to restart the XAMPP by doing ./lampp restart (XAMPP for Linux). Unfortunately it failed and when I observed the error.log it shows;


Maybe the path is wrong. Next try is to use full path by replace those rotatelogs piped lines with below;


Finally it works. No error in error_log found. New log file will be created whenever it reach 5MB size. Whenever it switch to the new log file, a unixtime will be appended to the log file name like below;


Log file size above is not 5MB yet but when I restart XAMPP, new log file is created. But I'm thinking, what if I don't want to keep all logs, just rotate them weekly. So I try this;


The new log file name now looks something like below.


They will rotate in 24 hours (86400 secs) with a 3-character weekday name appended to them. I assume they will rotate and replace just like I plan in 1 week time, I hope so. :-)

Following instruction from

http://www.apachefriends.org/f/viewtopic.php?t=27559&sid=96d42fb6867daf5d8932fdacf4232d58 ,
here are my output.

My case is similar to this problem. The only different is, I have libclntsh.so.9.* which is older than the expected version. BTW, my OS is SLES 9.3. First thing to do is to download Oracle Instant Client version 10 to match the expected version from;

http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/oci/instantclient/htdocs/linuxsoft.html

It is recommended to download .gz version than .rpm version since the .gz version is quite easy to be extracted. My case, I accidentally downloaded the .rpm version. So to extract it need special rpm2cpio command as below.



Now, copy all .so files into xampp lib directory named /opt/lampp/lib/.


Next is to issue the lampp oci8 command by telling the program that the expected libs are at /opt/lampp/lib/ as root since xampp is under root.


Now you can test your connection with some PHP example code from
http://www.php.net/oci8