I upgraded Apache from 2.2.31 to 2.4.18 on one of my servers. For one particular directory and its subtree, I needed authentication from specific domain names and IP addresses only. If the request doesn’t come from one of the whitelisted domain names or IP addresses, then Apache shouldn’t bother asking the user for authentication, but […]

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The 20150220 entry in /usr/ports/UPDATING contains no instructions for upgrading lang/php5 to lang/php56, at least not for us compiling our own ports. I learned the hard way using portupgrade what needs to be done. I have summarised my steps into the script below. Use the script as a guide, and if you do run my […]

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