The Big Jump

For the last few years, I’ve had this weblog hosted on pair.com, but in the last week or so, I switched it over to a shiny new Accelerator account at Joyent.

A few years ago, I bought into one of their buy-once-have-forever (aka VC) account. Eventually, they changed their servers from FreeBSD-based to Solaris-based, and I’ve been migrating a few of my hosts over.

A few little glitches ensued - for example, the hemingway theme I use in modified form on this blog uses short php start tags, and as a result breaks with an error like this:

PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /path/to/functions.php on line XX

To fix, in the PHP Configuration section, under Other Setting, you need to set Allow PHP scripts starting with <? to “yes”.

Additionally, if you want PHP logging to work a bit better, set the error_log variable in the php.ini file, to something like ~/domains/domain.name/logs/php_log .

Now, all I need to do is figure out how to rotate the PHP logs…