Category: Webservers

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We need to install the latest ffmpeg code built from source on a RedHat EL3 server. First we need to get and install some dependancies. mp3lame – http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3/

libogg – http://www.vorbis.com

libvorbis – http://www.vorbis.com

libfaad – http://www.audiocoding.com

Modify configure.in, plugins/xmms/src/Makefile.am and plugins/Makefile.am to remove references to BMP and enable CXX.

The ffmpeg source is maintained in Subversion so we had to first install subversion on the server as follows:

Next we fetch the ffmpeg source:

This is a “Too many open files” error. Increase open-files-limit in my.cnf Set ulimit -n in init file.

Here’s a vhost.conf that makes Joomla happy:

And here are the ownership/permissions:

Here’s a quick bit of apache config that can be placed in the conf/vhost.conf file of a Plesk site to turn on register_globals restrictions: < Directory /var/www/vhosts/somedomain.com/httpdocs > php_flag register_globals on </Directory> And then do: /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng -a -v