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Apache 2.4 upgrade on Arch Linux

Update: Here is the follow-up, using Apache 2.4.9 This article has been written from memory afterwards, so it may be imprecise and/or incomplete but contains the main steps to a successful migration. I plan to complete it when I'll upgrade another machine. You should be able to find the missing…

Turn PHP_SESSID off on an OVH shared server

In a .htaccess file, add: SetEnv SESSION_USE_TRANS_SID 0 In your PHP code:

Who am I?

I am an entity with a very limited perception and knowledge about itself, its own existence and its surrounding universe. A short physical summary based on what I have been taught is that I am a human being. I live in the northern hemisphere of the planet Earth, more precisely in a country called…

What is this website about?

This website is primarily serving as backup of my notes and findings, especially about programming and free software, in the hope it can also be useful to people encountering the same problems or questions. It also serves me to experiment and improve my programming skills. The other purpose of this…

MySQL: dump the encoding hell

I have encountered this issue in MySQL version 5.1.x, but not in 5.5 (I have not tested other versions): generating a dump of a UTF-8 encoded database (Collation: utf8_general_ci) resulted on non-ASCII characters (like "éà ç") being garbled. I am used to backup databases with this mysqldump…