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So back to basics. I have this working on PHP7.3 with FB3, but switching to FB5 gives a '502 Bad Gateway', now to build a table of checks to see where we are and perhaps try switching to pdo. The current demo site has been taken down...
Last modification: 28 May 2025

The lsces.uk web site and other Rainbow Digital Media sites are currently hosted on a local computer. This provides web services via Apache, PHP and the databases via Firebird. In addition to the web services stack, the machine also provides a...
Last modification: 6 August 2025

Ten months on from the last blog post and we have moved on from Leap 42.3 to Leap 15.0. It's the the current stable release from SUSE, but unfortunately it is stuck with older versions of some of the key stack elements, in particular Firebird...
In: Lester Caine's Blog
Last modification: 15 March 2019

Expanding on the notes provided on ' harddrive is a geek.org ' Initial Install Get Visual Studio 2008 (no matter what version - express, pro or others; all should work) and install it - The free version is...
Last modification: 2 September 2011

Use db wrappers in php don't write to mysql only well pdo in php is very buggy but some of the bugs are fixed in 5.3 http://www.alberton.info/php_pdo_firebird_status.html...
Last modification: 20 December 2009

Having tried several other setups, Fedora came up on the list of distributions to try out. I think the main problem that I have been having is with the Desktop rather then the core Linux, and the developments in KDE seem to be creating more...
Last modification: 20 December 2009

Up until the last week debugging PHP has alwasy been something of a black art to me. Quite regularly one would get a white screen with nothing on it and not know just were to start looking for the bug. Working through the move from PHP7.3 to...
Last modification: 9 April 2025

While I do have this working on a windows computer I have a few features of the web services stack that windows does not support so I've not used it as a host in production for many years. The legacy documentation on the windows based stack...
Last modification: 2 June 2025

TODO ... Replace this with a current stack built on Nginx rather tha Apache In the past we have managed the FLAP stack on SUSE, but support for current versions of Apache and PHP are currently not available, so a switch to an alternative...
Last modification: 4 April 2025

Having been living with Windows10 for the best part of a year it still presents as something of a bodge. The tablet style pages from Windows 8 appear quite regularly even have loaded 'Classic Shell' to help restore a level of working...
Last modification: 10 September 2016