Now, mod_fastcgi is configured and running. FastCGI supports connection via UNIX sockets or TCP/IP networking. This is useful to spread load among various backends. For example, php will be severed from 192.168.1.10 and python / ruby on rails will be severed from 192.168.1.11. This is only possible with mod_fastcgi. Required utilities You can spawn FastCGI [...]

If you’re running Apache with the mod_fcgid module to let your PHP scripts be handled in a seperate module, you can run into this annoying little bug in the mod_fcgid 2.2.x implementations. The problem: mod_fcgid: read data timeout in xx seconds First, check if you have the mod_fcgid module that is causing these problems. # [...]

Edit conf file: /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf Enable mod_expire and mod_compress. Expire static files set for 3 days: $HTTP["url"] =~ “\.(js|css|gif|jpg|png|ico|txt|swf|html|htm)$” { expire.url = ( “” => “access 3 days” ) } Compress mime types: compress.cache-dir         = “/var/cache/lighttpd/compress/” compress.filetype          = (“text/plain”, “text/html”, “text/css”, “text/xml”, “text/javascript”) Cleanup the compressed cache via daily cron script: #!/bin/bash # lighttpd_cache_clean # Clean [...]

ou can redirect browser to use SSL secure port using .htaccess file with Rewrite Rules. Create a .htaccess file with the below Rewrite rule. Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !=443 RewriteRule ^ https://secure.yourdomain.com%{REQUEST_URI} [NS,R,L]

Custom Apache and PHP modules add features to the EasyApache system, and are accessible from both the command line and graphical WHM interfaces. These modules are compiled into Apache and/or PHP just like the modules provided with EasyApache. Before you begin You can find documentation for creating custom modules your server at WHM > EasyApache [...]

A chroot on Red Hat / CentOS / Fedora Linux operating changes the apparent disk root directory for the Apache process and its children. Once this is done attacker or other php / perl / python scripts cannot access or name files outside that directory. This is called a “chroot jail” for Apache. You should [...]

Mapping john.webserver.com to http://www.webserver.com/user.php?name=john is just by changing a few parameters in http.conf file In httpd.conf file, <VirtualHost se.rv.er.ip.ad.re.ss> ServerAdmin info@servername.com DocumentRoot /var/www ErrorLog /var/log/apache/apache-error.log TransferLog /var/log/apache/apache.log ServerName www.servername.com ServerAlias *.servername.com RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.* [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^\.]+)\.servername\.com RewriteRule ^/$ http://www.servername.com/user.php?user=%1 </VirtualHost> The lines for this feature, RewriteEngine on activating rewrite option RewriteCond [...]

I’m trying to install the latest version of Lighttpd v1.4.29 web server under RHEL 6.1 AMD64 and getting the following error: network.c: In function ‘network_init’: network.c:483: error: ‘EC_KEY’ undeclared (first use in this function) network.c:483: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once network.c:483: error: for each function it appears in.) network.c:483: error: ‘ecdh’ undeclared [...]

It’s common knowledge that when you’re serving a web application you shouldn’t use a standard Apache install to serve static assets, as it comes with too much overhead. I won’t go into the details of why here, as it’s been covered by many other people better qualified than I. What I can do, however, is tell you how [...]

Apache has public_html directory support. With this you specify the name of the directory which is appended onto a user’s home directory if a ~user request is received. For example http://domain.com/~rocky/file.html will be rocky’s home directory /home/rocky/public_html/file.html. Recently I took small part time job to setup web server for university. I want to give every [...]