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Build APM on Windows: Apache + PHP 8.4 + MariaDB Series Index
A 7-part series on compiling Apache 2.4.69, PHP 8.4.27 and MariaDB 11.8.9 from source on Windows 11, so when PHP releases a security patch, I can change the version number in one file and rebuild within a day. This page covers the contents, overview, time, disk space and three-command shortcut.
Recover MariaDB Redo Log Corruption with force_recovery and Reinit
MariaDB would not start after an unclean shutdown — a corrupted InnoDB redo log took the mysql.global_priv system table down with it. This is the recovery sequence I actually used, starting with innodb_force_recovery to make the data readable, then dumping each db before reinitializing the whole system, with one rule never to raise force_recovery higher than necessary.