Hi Guys, Would really appreciate some help... I have paid a developer to develop a website for me. I have given him webspace / FTP / access to cPanel. ** He has said that I now have to enable PDO and the APC cache on my dedicated server. I have contacted support, and they want to charge a fortune... The developer has kindly offered to do it... but I have to give him server root details... and I am worried. Nothing personal to him, but he does not work for a company, and just like any remote partnership I would be a fool to fully trust him. ** Is there anyway I could enable the PDO and APC cache myself? The little info I have found on this has implied that it involves recompiling the php installation so I am a little bit worried... Or can it just be as simple as editing the php.ini file? ** I have cPanel/WHM/Centos. Thanks!
Login to WHM as root then down to Easy Apache, under there you can enable the PDO module then you have to rebuild PHP. For APC Cache you need do it from a shell, again it's a compile. Although you can probably do it by following instructions, if this server has live sites on it you're going to be better off paying someone you trust to do it. If the server isn't live then if you break it there's no harm done while you find someone to fix it all for you.
Tolra thankyou very much for your advice, really appreciated. You are right, it might be a bad idea to do this myself as I do have a couple of live sites on it. Not worth the risk messing everything up as I wouldn't quickly know how to fix it. I'm going to try and learn how to do it myself, but am going to do it hopefully with my friend that is a linux ninja.