Saturday, October 26, 2013

Linux shell cheatsheet (Can it become one?)

I love the command line, the CLI. I wish somethings were a little bit different allowing me to use CLI for every task, but the world is a cruel place, apart from stupid M$ mistakes regarding their crappy GUI. You do realize there wouldn't be such a crappy product without dependency on the GUI, right?
I'm not categorizing it right now, because there's not much to categorize actually
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Running your first PHP application in Google App Engine (Fix for the --php_executable_path flag () issue)

As I may (or may not) have mentioned before, I mostly blog here for the purpose of note-keeping for myself. In most of the cases I don't really care about how good the tutorials (not so much) are coming out. So, please do your homework if you are following any of my tutorials at all. This is gonna be a disclaimer somewhere, but see? I can't give a damn here. Thanks.
I was trying my hands on the Google App Engine. My system is Linux so I downloaded, followed the linux part of things from their official how-to-first-time page here [ https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/php/gettingstarted/installing ]
As you can see from that page (yeah, that's a dependency) you
1. Download the PHP SDK
2. Extract it some nice place
3. Write a "hello world!" PHP script
4. Execute the python script (dev_appserver.py) in the the "google_appengine" (if you haven't done it otherwise) folder.
BUT ! I got stuck here for sometime, and looked up for the fix.
Source of the problem:
_PHPBinaryError: The path specified with the --php_executable_path flag () does not exist.
Which naturally implied 2 things
1. The PHP installation was NOT as the app engine wants it to be
2. God doen't want me to code anymore
I naturally believe God loves it when I'm busy with my favourite thing so number 2 was obsolete. I looked up on Google for some solutions and a sudden SO page suggested that executing the appserver executable like
./dev_appserver.py --php_executable_path="...path..to..the..php-cgi..executable..." helloworld
will solve the problem.
Following this trail I came to notice that my ignorance toward the tutorial's PHP installation paid of here. The problem was actually my PHP installtion was a CLI version. While the app engine essentially wants a CGI version. For doing so, the tutorial has very good instructions, and yes, php-cgi is NOT available in Ubuntu repos. So I did
sudo apt-get install gcc libmysqlclient-dev libxml2-dev
  wget --trust-server-names http://us2.php.net/get/php-5.4.15.tar.bz2/from/us1.php.net/mirror
  tar xjf php-5.4.15.tar.bz2
  cd php-5.4.15
  ./configure --prefix=$PWD/installdir --enable-bcmath --with-mysql
  make install
  cd -
And afterwards executed
./dev_appserver.py --php_executable_path="...path..to..the..php-cgi..executable..." helloworld
And it went smooth. :) By the way, the above method will NOT harm you normal PHP installation.

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