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I had to configure Sendmail in order for Ubersmith to be able to receive support requests via email. Basically, you configure an alias (/etc/aliases) like so:

support: "|php -q -f /home/html/cron/gateway.php domain.com 1"

This all seemed to be very straightforward. I didn’t even think to test it until hours later. When I finally did test out the support request by email function, I received this very abrupt rebuke from Sendmail in the form of a bounceback:

Continue reading “smrsh: “php” not available for sendmail programs (stat failed)”

Today I’m installing Ubersmith, a billing system solution, on a server to test it out. I have to say that Ubersmith has a more complex installation process than I’m used to these days. I guess that I’ve been spoiled.

Here’s a quick word about what I’m running. My test server is a dedicated system running CentOS 5.2 64-bit. The software setup is nothing special as most of the packages are straight from the repository.

I loaded the release files on the server, untarred them, and proceeded to read the instructions. Everything looked to be straight-forward. I quickly got down to the part about installing Ioncube. That’s when the trouble started.

Continue reading “Trouble with Ubersmith, Ioncube, and mb_internal_encoding”