Start by installing all of the required dependencies. Here’s the list, but your specific versions may vary. I’m just letting yum install all the latest packages. And I finish by running a “yum update -y” to get the whole system up to date. There are newer versions of the libnet package available, but you specifically need libnet-1.0.2a.tar.gz. You can search and find a bunch of mirrors or try the one I used below: Now download the snort source.

The oneliner ob_gzhandler only works for Apache and you have to have the mod_gzip module loaded. This method is crap. So to send gzipped PHP output to users browser’s to save bandwidth, try this. It also helps for slow Internet connections and large pages too.

I don’t care what anyone says, I like lots of debug output available in my programs. It helps me crank out code faster with less errors. You can keep a private member called debug and just flip it on and off when you want to see the output. It’s a lot cleaner than interjecting prints and echos all over the place.