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On this post I'll show you how to run Drupal 8 or any PHP application using Apache HTTP Server with mod_event enabled and PHP 7-FPMFirst we need to get the required PHP and Apache packages from the Ubuntu repository:$sudo apt-get install php7.0-fpm apache2 libapache2-mod-fastcgithen we need to disable the worker that's enabled by default and switch to mpm_event:$sudo a2dismod mpm_worker
$sudo a2enmod mpm_eventNow that we have enabled the event module, let's activate some required extra apache modules needed to run our apps like Drupal:$sudo a2enmod alias rewrite fastcgi expires headers…
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Tuesday, January 3, 2017
Content managers have to deal always with metadata provided by imagery of your website, this can be a tedious task for them and obviously it takes time to fill out all the meta data for your images so they can be  properly displayed on the site, indexed by search providers, etc.

One of the easiest ways I found to get information from an image file on Drupal is by using a module called Exif, this module uses the exif specification format to get the information used by digital cameras for example. This module provides a variety of information extracted from an image field on Drupal and…
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Friday, February 14, 2014
Zend Server 6 is the latest Application Server for PHP development supported and distributed by Zend, it's an awesome piece of software the lets you deploy and manage your PHP apps in no time.
There are tons of new features on this version compared to what we had previously on ZS 5. Totally recommended!

Below i'm describing how to install it on Ubuntu Server 13.04:

login on your server as root:

1) edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file and add the following entry:
    deb http://repos.zend.com/zend-server/6.1/deb_ssl1.0 server non-free
    *Note: this repo will…
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Thursday, August 15, 2013
Installation of Zend Server on Ubuntu 12.04 has a new repo that fixes known issues with Ubuntu 12.04.

The new source:

deb http://repos.zend.com/zend-server/5.6.0_ubuntu1204/deb server non-free

add it to you sources.list file

more info about the issue:

http://forums.zend.com/viewtopic.php?f=78&t=65618

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Thursday, January 17, 2013