Technical Details The first thing we need to do, is configure Nginx to determine what needs to differentiate our cached pages. In our example, we’re using device type since this [ … ]

If a customer is using a Cloud Load Balancer, they are restricted to only allowing/denying 100 IPs. However, they may want to block specific IPs still. Ideally, we would block [ … ]

Summary Apache has the ability to return its Hostname via the X-Served-By header. When troubleshooting nodes behind a Load Balancer, this can help localize a problematic node. This guide will [ … ]

Overview APC (alternative php cache) is a module that provides opcode caching for PHP pages. It comes installed by default on our LAMP kicks and can be a major performance [ … ]

Introduction suPHP is an Apache module primarily written in C++, who’s purpose is to execute PHP code as a different user to the web server. This is desirable when running [ … ]

Create the password file: htpasswd -cm /etc/httpd/SITENAME-htpasswd USERNAME Then enter the user’s password twice. Next, update the .htaccess file in the directory that the user would like protected. These are [ … ]

Rewrites Rewrite domain.com to www.domain.com RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}$1 [R=301,L] Rewrite www.domain.com to domain.com RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.com [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com$1 [L,R=301] Rewrite [ … ]

Why use ProxyPass instead of Varnish? Who wants to run a separate daemon and worry about it crashing or have to change port configs? Not Me. So lets get started [ … ]

Summary The purpose of this article is to configure and tune fail2ban to protect Apache web service.We often see Apache Access logs with hundreds of entries of gets and posts [ … ]

Summary Many users who migrate from Windows environments or from some Shared Webhosting providers will expect their environment to be case-insensitive. There are two ways that we can enable this [ … ]