Installing eaccelerator on a MediaTemple DV 3.5 Virtual Server
February 12th, 2008
I followed these instructions:
http://www.php.ph/2007/12/21/centos-5-eaccelerator-installation/
But with one exception: don’t extract the eaccelerator tar to /tmp, as it won’t let you phpize, (maybe because the /tmp partition is mounted noexec?).
February 12th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Nice find, and yes…that’s exactly why you can’t execute stuff out of /tmp on these machines. They’re mounted with the ‘noexec’ option in order to prevent most common methods of a server compromise.
Have a good one, Michael!
–Arman.
February 12th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Thanks for the confirmation, Arman. You have a good one, too!
April 15th, 2008 at 10:27 am
What folder should I extract too?
May 13th, 2008 at 10:23 am
I just extracted it to my home directory, and followed the instructions from that point.
September 1st, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Hi Michael, Thanks for your article.
I also wasn’t able to phpize in the /tmp directory, tried the /home as you suggested but this won’t even alLow writing of the .tar to the directory, “Permission denied”.
Am I missing something obvious?
September 1st, 2008 at 10:40 pm
I’m an idiot, wasn’t logged in as root user!
Cheers-