Archive for July 22nd, 2009

A fix for problem with FreeBSD php pcre & qmail installation

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Few weeks ago I came around a problem with the php installed on my FreeBSD box seems like a shitty error occured when I tried to install squirrelmail as well as joomla. The following Warning message showed up every time I tried to access some of the scripts of the aforementioned ones.
“[Thu Jun 11 20:39:15 2009] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] PHP Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Internal pcre_fullinfo() error -3 in somefile.php on line 169[Thu Jun 11 20:39:15 2009] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] PHP Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-replace]: Internal pcre_fullinfo() error -3 in somefile.php on line 275″
I looked for a solution and it seemed the solution was as simple as adding “-with-pcre-regex=yes” to the Makefile of /usr/ports/lang/php5 a recompile and hooray pcre works correctly! Another problem I faced was with a qmail+vpopmail installation which seemed not to recognize the existence of some email addresses in the vpopmail installation. The cause for that was that my /var/qmail/control/locals was containing the name contained also in /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains. Simply removing the domain from locals and restarting qmail did the trick.Apart from all that I remembered an interesting website which you might find interesting to visit, a video from it was suggested by Sha’nar (Hope he had a safe journey to God). Here is thewebsiteisdown itself. Yes this days I’m mostly bored and in a spiritual roaming … Anyways thanks and glory be to God for his mercies on me.END—–