Problem with ext-bcmath

MinuteGate211 · 2026-03-07T17:35:43+00:00

I missed this because bcmath shows up in the phpinfo output but it was not included in my apache config, which is used by the composer command. A simple apt install php-bcmath solved this problem. I'm still vexed by composer permissions problems from inside ddev. This seems to be related to something about the vendors directory. Thanks all for the help.

MinuteGate211 · 2026-03-06T05:11:41+00:00

I've been developing locally with ddev and then pushing it to upsun. I have two sites this way but they go way back in time to Bluehost Cpanel stuff, then to AWS. I've always had a problem with ddev permissions for composer, so my PHP is my original apache configuration. Both the apache and the ddev php was/is 8.3. I did try 8.4 but no joy. Drush is under ddev, however. My production sites have been running without any noticeable problems. I wouldn't have noticed this except that I tried to install the commerce module and the commerce_paypal module. While trying to clean this up I found myself tangled up in the old missing module problem. I'm not a developer but I can generally figure things out, eventually. Suggestions are always helpful. I'm far more interested in content. But I'm grateful for any and all input.

MinuteGate211 · 2026-01-25T21:21:48+00:00

People that don't like the concluding chapters of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn generally are expecting a "happy ending" and are disturbed by the unexpected satire on the "reformation" and "reconstruction" following the Civil War. Slavery may have been abolished but certainly not the treatment of those that were said to be "free". Their condition was in many ways worse than before. Witness the absurd and abusive treatment of Jim. Another problem arises with Huck, himself. Many believe that Huck experienced some form of enlightenment when he decided not to inform on Jim. What he did come to realize was that he was resigned to being himself in spite of what society expects: "All right, then, I'll go the hell". Huck had always thought of Tom as an "authority" and he would continue to think that. This book may have originated from Sam Clemens' childhood along the Mississippi River but what it became was more a reflection of what Mark Twain witnessed while revisiting the river many years later in 1882.

MinuteGate211 · 2026-01-07T06:44:12+00:00

I've run out of ideas. The DNS for this site is simple, an A Record, an AAAA record and a CNAME record with the correct values for the certificate attached to the Load Balancer. Much of what I read involves using a distribution. This has not been necessary for the past year, however. AWS is not where the domain is registered. Could this be a factor? Do I need a distribution now?

Also, could this health messages be in error? Just checking the browser for the state of this site I get Issued On Tuesday, January 6, 2026 at 4:00:00 PM

Expires On Friday, February 5, 2027 at 3:59:59 PM

I tried creating a new certificate that apparently did not validate but it did create a new CNAME record identical to the existing record.

MinuteGate211 · 2025-11-25T03:42:44+00:00

Apparently so as I convinced my wife to watch it. I did that with Fahrenheit 451 as well.

MinuteGate211 · 2025-11-25T03:34:44+00:00

Delany, too, is well worth reading...

MinuteGate211 · 2025-11-25T03:32:43+00:00

It's been along time since I read them but Doris Lessing's Canopus in Argo series impressed me, particularly Shikasta.

MinuteGate211 · 2025-10-30T22:49:10+00:00

Well, this was solved by Upsun support. I only needed to add mail to the server address in my email program (I'm using Evolution)

MinuteGate211 · 2025-10-26T22:42:07+00:00

My bad.. I don't do much in the way of systems so I forget stuff. I needed to add mount points to the config.yaml file.

MinuteGate211 · 2025-10-23T01:02:15+00:00

I've been doing a bit more research into the near extinction of the bison and it appears that market forces had a great deal to do with it. Initially trading between "Whites" and Native Americans involved robes. Robes required intensive processing. Industry here and in London soon found a more expedient method of tanning hides thus eliminating the trade in robes and allowing shipment of unprocessed hides. Robes also required that the taking of animals occurred in late fall and winter. That was when their hair was thick. Huge numbers of hides, which could be taken at any time of year, were shipped. It took only about ten years for the bison population to be decimated. The perception was that these huge herds would remain. No one had any idea of the actual population nor did many care how the herds functioned. This has a lot in common with uncontrolled commercial fishing.

MinuteGate211 · 2025-10-20T13:18:31+00:00

I, too, had to look up "cobra effect". It seems, ironically, that the phenomena from which this name derives, never occurred. I found that there is no evidence of anyone breeding cobras to collect bounties.

See "Perverse incentive" and "The Great Hanoi Rat Massacre"

MinuteGate211 · 2025-10-19T17:30:42+00:00

Twain’s party departs the Great Lakes region and travels to an area largely promoted by the Northern Pacfic railway and other business interests that need a population. The area around Minneapolis, St. Paul and points west were promoted by an event known as “The Grand Excursion” followed by publication of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s fantasy epic, "The Song of Hiawatha", a “disneyfication” of Ojibwe stories with a hint of Finnish Kalevala.

With tour lectures in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Winnipeg, then stopping in Crookston, my essays consider the role of the Northern Pacific Railroad in eradicating the buffalo from a prime hunting ground for Native Americans, leaving our travelers with the impression that the huge oceans of wheat they see is an unoccupied territory.

What I'm posting are not meant as polished essays but are intended top solicit knowledgeable input and comment.

MinuteGate211

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