Category Archives: Apache

Nginx as a reverse proxy for Apache

Posted on July 10, 2008 by Peter

While Apache is a great server for delivering dynamic content and especially hosting PHP-based websites, it has a high memory footprint and a high overhead when forking new worker processes during high server load. In this article I will describe … Continue reading →

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Speeding up PHP in 5 minutes

Posted on June 9, 2008 by Peter

By default PHP scripts are compiled on each access. This will become a real performance killer once your website hits a certain load. There is a number of Opcode caches available which try to overcome this recompiling issue by storing … Continue reading →

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Howto enable WebDAV in Apache

Posted on October 28, 2007 by Peter

Time for another enhancement for the Apache web server. If you followed my other 2 Apache postings, you will have a secure web server configuration which has SSL enabled and is monitored by the mod_security application level firewall. Now it … Continue reading →

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Securing Apache with mod_security

Posted on August 17, 2007 by Peter

Now that the basic Apache configuration is working, let’s take some time to harden the installation. The module mod_security is really handy for this task. It is an application level firewall meaning that it will inspect incoming requests to the … Continue reading →

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Apache, PHP and MySQL setup

Posted on August 13, 2007 by Peter

After setting up the mail system, I continued today with the basic webserver setup. This setup includes a basic Apache2 configuration with SSL and name based virtual hosts. PHP5 and MySQL5 are also needed for serving dynamic content.

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