eZ publish on Combell webhosting
January 21st, 2006
Yesterday I installed eZ publish on my Combell webhosting. After uploading and unpacking eZ 3.6.5 I tried to start the setup wizard.
I was surprised that the setup wizard didn’t want to start because of the unsupported PHP version 4.4.1. PHP 4.4? I thought it was PHP 4.3 that had been installed on my webhosting. phpinfo() gave me certainty. I’ve mailed the Combell support team to tell them I was happy with the upgrade to PHP 4.4, but I also mentioned to be disappointed because they didn’t warn their customers about the upgrade. I already got a reply and it seems they are busy with setting up such a notification system.
I gave it another try with eZ 3.7.3. Everything went fine now when starting the setup wizard, except for some PHP notices as described in the invalid bug 7313: Reference issues in 3.7.0. Again, phpinfo() gave me certainty. An older version of Zend Optimizer was enabled. I found a workaround for this problem in the Gallery2 Codex. I do have access to php.ini – lucky bastard I am – so I could use this workaround and change the value of the zend_optimizer.optimization_level directive to 14.
No further problems encountered so far. Will be continued…
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6 Comments Add your own
1. Derick | January 21st, 2006 at 1:43 pm
This is a bug in the Zend Optimizer then…. (like so much other weird behavior
. If you don’t need it (for encoded content), you should consider turning it off.
2. Kristof | January 22nd, 2006 at 11:53 am
eZ publish seems to be faster with Zend Optimizer enabled, that’s why I don’t like to turn it off. Did you encounter other weird behavior when using eZ 3.7.3 with Zend Optimizer 2.5 enabled?
Combell probably will upgrade to version 2.6 of Zend Optimizer, which should fix some problems with PHP 4.4.x.
3. ?ukasz | January 22nd, 2006 at 8:56 pm
“Did you encounter other weird behavior when using eZ 3.7.3 with Zend Optimizer 2.5 enabled?”
I’m not sure about Linux environment, but yes on Windows platform Zend Optimizer can reduce eZ publish performance. Especially TPL compilation. I suggest to keep it disabled.
4. Derick | January 23rd, 2006 at 9:51 pm
It’s also proprietary closed source software. Instead ot the ZO I would definitely install APC (http://pecl.php.net/apc).
5. Kristof | February 8th, 2006 at 8:24 pm
Thanks for your advice, guys!
Sometimes I get an empty page back when editing content and I noticed segmentation faults in the Apache error log, so I finally decided to turn Zend Optimizer off. Works better now, only a bit slower. But I can live with that
6. Alojamento Sites | February 15th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
Congrats on getting your problem fixed, you guys are good with your server knowledge.
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