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. # [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a CentOS 5.5 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support. I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!   1 Preliminary Note In this tutorial I use the hostname server1.example.com with [...]

Here are some basic steps to secure Apache Web Server IMPORTANT NOTE: These suggestions may vary from server to server and modify the values as per your server configurations. It is up to you to determine if any of the changes suggested here are not compatible with your requirements. 1. Hide the Apache Version number, [...]

mod_slotlimit is an Apache module that using dynamic slot allocation algorithm and static rules, can manage resources used for each running site.   1. Installation In order to compile mod_slotlimit, you will need to have apxs2 (APache eXtension tool) installed and configured with Apache. The follow command will install it: apt-get install apache2-prefork-dev Now we [...]