Feb 20 2009

RPM failed to start

When you’re running REDHAT/CENTOS platform for your server, sometimes the RPM wont run normally or become stuck. This caused by the RPM database not properly builded or been corrupted.

Errors would be like :

rpmdb: Program version 4.3 doesn’t match environment version
error: db4 error(-30974) from dbenv->open: DB_VERSION_MISMATCH: Database environment version mismatch
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 – (-30974)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm

rpmdb: Program version 4.3 doesn’t match environment version
error: db4 error(-30974) from dbenv->open: DB_VERSION_MISMATCH: Database environment version mismatch
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm

So, to solve those issues,
you can run these commands from ROOT access:

rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
rpm -vv –rebuilddb

The ‘-vv’ parameter on rpm, will STDOUT.

To run it as background process, do:

rpm –rebuilddb &

Feb 20 2009

How to protect your website using simple PHP scripts

Just put below on your top line of the scripts :

$ips = array(”127.0.0.1″,”aaa.bbb.ccc”,”xxx.yyy.zzz”);
$userip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
foreach ($ips as $ip) {
if (!preg_match(”/$ip/i”, $userip)) {
echo “Access Denied!”;
exit;
}
}

Notes:
$ips is the allowed IP address range

Other way, you can use .htaccess to protect directories/files.