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I recently setup an Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS server for a client which uses a PHP based forum. It's all gone well, but now it seems I need to install a new php module to enable spell checking in the forum (the forum is Simple Machines Forum)

So when I first setup the server, I installed like this:

sudo aptitude -y install php5-cli php5-common php5-mysql php5-suhosin php5-gd
sudo aptitude -y install php5-fpm php5-cgi php-pear php5-memcache php-apc

Now it seems I need 'php5-pspell' as well. But because this server is now live and working, I'm worried that I won't do this right and mess something up...

Can I just do this and then restart the php5-fpm service to make it enabled?

sudo aptitude -y install php5-pspell
sudo service php5-fpm restart

?

Many thanks, James

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A couple things. You seem not very confident about working on your system.. This probably means you should setup a virtual machine that mirrors your production system that you can test and experiment on. Second it seems like you may not have a backup, and restore system figure out. You should figure out backup and restore from bare-metal ASAP, setting up a VM will help with this. – Zoredache Sep 22 '10 at 0:28
@Zoredache When you say a virtual machine, do you literally mean a Ubuntu Server 10.04 setup through something like virtualbox? The server is on Linode that has a pretty comprehensive backup system, which I have confidence in. But you are right, I don't have major confidence right now, this is my first (very busy) website I've migrated to it's own VPS from a MediaTemple Grid shared server. It's all gone well (after much research) but it makes sense to have some like a virtual machine. – littlejim84 Sep 22 '10 at 9:33
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Your command to install the package looks fine. But you most likely need to restart Apache, and not a service named php5-fpm.

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Excellent. I'm not using Apache, I have Nginx and a thing called PHP-FPM (basically PHP with FastCGI baked in, so to speak). – littlejim84 Sep 22 '10 at 9:29
Actually, you don't need to restart anything. PHP keeps absolutely no state between webpage launches - configuration changes and module installs take place immediately, automatically. – fahadsadah Oct 24 '10 at 17:48
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