Debian Sarge, PHP4 and Apache2.. why do you persecute me?

Oh FFS! Has anyone had a problem with Apache2 and PHP4 on Debian Sarge/Testing? I have a stock install of it with nothing unusual AFAICT but Firefox keeps trying to download and save php files instead of processing them. All the config files seem to be correctly set up. Files in mods-enabled/ are fine.
Why am I upset? I added the wp-newblog.php to WPMU SVN tonight, imported a chunk of code from install.php so it’s a one-step process, but I can’t test this thing to see if it works! It’s here as a WPMU snapshot but it won’t work out of the box. It needs an entry in .htaccess first, and bug fixing.

I’m off to relax, it’s been a long day.. zzzz

Much Later… I finally got it working again. I tried dpkg-reconfigure phpmyadmin but it didn’t update the config file with this error:

Not replacing deleted config file /etc/apache2/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf

Following the clues from here I did the following:

apt-get remove –purge libapache2-mod-php4
apt-get remove –purge apache2
apt-get install libapache2-mod-php4 phpmyadmin

PHPMyAdmin now works fine, and hopefully wpmu will too!

WordPress.. earn a buck releasing free software

So, Matt accepted articles for publication on the WordPress website that are not WP related. They are (were? The Google searches linked to don’t return anything) there for generating revenue and nothing more.
There are plenty of ways to make money doing free software, but they usually mean doing work for someone else and sometimes that code doesn’t get released. Or you rely on the goodwill of others to donate and that doesn’t happen often!

Matt’s done a huge amount of work for WordPress and I wish him well finding another source of revenue to cover his hosting costs, compensation for his time and other costs.

(via Garret)

Tracking external links with AJAX

Is there no end to this guy’s talent? Kae came up with a way of tracking hits to external links that only requires you include some javascript, and that adds an onclick() event to each link on your page! I’ll be pumping that into WPMU as soon as I can!
This webmaster world thread discusses the effect lots of 302 redirects is having on Google. I’m trying to figure out if my 302 redirects is having the same affect. 🙁

WPMU Snapshot

New WPMU snapshot:

Changes:
I removed several options not required in a multi-blog environment and introduced a bug that blanked the siteurl when any of the general options was changed. Fixed.
Lots of changes to WP Core too.
The WPMU admin manager should be considered very experimental – don’t run on a production server or very bad things will happen!
More: Change log

New WPMU Snapshot

An all-new, all-singing snapshot is now available. The mu website is going through some updating so you can download the files from here instead:

Hold off on downloading for a while. The SVN repository is down right now and the archives above are corrupted. I’ll post fixed files later. They’re fine now.

Changes:
I rolled in a big patch by Dasher, including Derek Ditch’s wpmu manager. It also included BAStats so you have yet another way of telling where people come to your site from!
Lots of other fixes and additional features, check the change log for more.
Post questions to the support forum if you have problems.