Adventures in IT

Hiphop has a built-in admin server that has a lot of useful functions.  I found out about it on an old post on the Hiphop blog . Since those times Hiphop has moved towards using an ini file instead of a config.hdf file. On a standard prebuilt HHVM on Ubuntu you should  find the ini file in /etc/hhvm/php.ini Facebook maintains a list of all the ini settings on Github . It is into this file that we add two lines to enable the admin server: hhvm.admin_server.password = SecretPassword hhvm.admin_server.port = 8888 I then added a server to Nginx by creating this file: /etc/nginx/conf.d/admin.conf (by default Nginx includes all conf files in that directory): server { # hhvm admin listen 8889; location ~ { fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:8888; include fastcgi_params; } } Now I can run curl 'http://localhost:8889' from my shell on the box to get a list of commands. Because I host this project with Amazon and have not set up a ...

On my desktop machine I run my package upgrades every day.  The other day my Hiphop version got updated to 3.6.0 and suddenly my Postgres support died. Running Hiphop gave a symbol not found error in the postgres.so file ( undefined symbol: _ZTIN4HPHP11PDOResourceE\n ) exactly like the issue reported on the driver repository ( here ). I tried to recompile the postgres driver against Hiphop 3.6.0 but hit a number of problems, mostly to do with  hhvm-pgsql-master/pdo_pgsql_statement.cpp it seems. The fix for the incompatibility was unfortunately rolling back to my previous version of Hiphop.  To do this on Mint/Ubuntu just do this: Run cat /etc/*-release to get your release information Download the appropriate package for your distro from http://dl.hhvm.com/ubuntu/pool/main/h/hhvm/ Remove your 3.6.0 installation of hhvm: sudo apt-get remove hhvm Install the package you downloaded : sudo dpkg -i <deb package> After that everything should be ...

PostGres is rapidly gaining traction as a solid relational database manager.  It provides transaction reliability (ACID), standards compliance, and has a better reputation for handling large datasets than MariaDB / mySQL. Luckily installing it for Hiphop is painless and there is an externally provided extension for it. There was not a prebuilt package available for the PocketRent/hhvm-pgsql  extension for my version of Hiphop so I built it following the advice in the project readme.  Their instructions worked first time. I did not have success with using the "ini" method of including the extension so had to create a Hiphop configuration file. DynamicExtensionPath = /path/to/hhvm/extensions DynamicExtensions { * = pgsql.so } I placed the snippet they provide (above) into a file called config.hdf in my Hiphop location.  I'm using Mint on my dev box so this was /etc/hhvm/config.hdf for me. Then I edited /etc/default/hhvm and set Hiphop up to...