Let's say you want to access a svn repo or perhaps even a working copy programatically through php without escaping to the shell, you need svn functions setup in php. Here is how you do it.

First off, you need to have a few packages installed. I assume you already got a web server and php up, in addition to this you will also need the following:

• php development libraries
• php pear/pecl
• subversion
• subversion development libraries

On a modern *buntu distro, the packages you need are:

A couple of sites that I support have been hosted by VPSLink for a while now and it was time I got the OpenVPN client in the virtual machine to talk to my server. Setting up OpenVPN was easy enough, as I got the config files and the certs all prepped before hand, getting it to work was a different deal... After the initial failed service openvpn start and a bit more sifting through log files, it turned out that the node for the /dev/net/tun adapter was incorrect! Fixing this was easy after a bit of googling around: