I just upgraded one of my Ubuntu Servers to Ubuntu 16.04. The media wiki installation shopped working because it now comes with PHP 7. I tried upgrading mediawiki to the latest version but this didn’t seem to work either. I can’t seem to find out if Mediawiki support PHP 7. So, I thought I would … Read more
If you are trying to set your php memory limit at the top of a php script using the php int_set() and it doesn’t appear to have any affect then there is a chance that you have the PHP Suhosin security extension installed. Suhosin stops a script from being able to increase the memory limit. … Read more
There is a method of hacking php using a security flaw in php in how it handles exif meta data embedded in jpeg, png or gif images. You describe this as an EXIF injection attack. As a precaution it is a good idea to strip all EXIF information from any images that are uploaded to … Read more
I have been trying to make curl post request to a script like so: It keep failing with an Apache 213 error like this: The requested resource /api.php does not allow request data with POST requests, or the amount of data provided in the request exceeds the capacity limit. It turns out that you need … Read more
We have been trying to make a curl requested to login to a secure website from within PHP on Ubuntu 12.04. However, curl was hanging and responding with a nothing. After much debugging, it turns out the curl was failing to negoitiate the correct ssl protocol to use. You can test if you have the … Read more