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NginX HTTP Server Book

Vlad — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:03:01 +0000

If you started reading this article it means that you are interested in finding more about the NginX web server. The big monsters fighting the web server battle are still Apache and Microsoft’s IIS. These types of software are very good and complex, but the better they are the more resources they consume. Apache for example is great for its modularity and its increased optimization possibilities. But every module costs you RAM which, in the end, costs you money. So what do you do when you...

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Install NginX and PHP 5.3.3 with PHP-FPM, MySQL and APC

Vlad — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:52:30 +0000

As of July 22nd 2010 PHP-FPM is a part of PHP 5.3.3 core's trunk. FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some useful additional features. In this tutorial I will compile NginX 0.8.47 and PHP 5.3.3 with FPM, MySQL, Suhosin, APC and Imagick on Ubuntu 10.04. I will not explain how to configure NginX here. You can find a lot of resources about that on the nginx wiki or my previus post Install NginX with PHP-FPM in Ubuntu 10.04. read more

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Jetty Powered MultiCore Apache Solr and Drupal in Ubuntu 10.04

Vlad — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:17:59 +0000

My previous article explains how to install Tomcat 6 in Ubuntu and deploy the Apache Solr application. If you preffer to deploy it under Jetty, the following steps explain how to install jetty and prepare a multi coresetup of Solr: read more

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Apache Solr, Tomcat 6 and Drupal in Ubuntu 10.04

Vlad — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:08:51 +0000

Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database integration, and rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling. Solr is highly scalable, providing distributed search and index replication, and it powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest internet sites. read more

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Install NginX with PHP-FPM in Ubuntu 10.04

Vlad — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:52:45 +0000

If you want a web server with a very small memory footprint then you should think of trying NginX. It's very light weight and in some situations it performs much better than Apache (like serving static content). Many websites, use it as a frontend to apache, so that all the static content is served by NginX and the rest is proxied to a backend Apache. It can also handle php files by itself with the help of fast-cgi, spawn-fcgi or php-fpm. Php-Fpm is not as mature as Apache's mod_php, but it...

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Install necessary software

Vlad — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:53:19 +0000

In order to configure your network adapter with the static ip provided, you have to modify the following file: vi /etc/network/interfaces And add/modify the following lines: auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address YOUR.EXTENAL.IP.ADDRESS netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway YOUR.GATEWAY Setup you host name: vi /etc/hosts Sould contain: read more

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Secure your Ubuntu 10.04 server

Vlad — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:40:33 +0000

Login with putty or any other ssh client as root with your assigned password ssh root@173.203.206.78 You can change your root password if you need to with the following command: passwd Add your own user: adduser jdoe If you want that sudo su command not to ask for a password: visudo Add the following line at the end of the file read more

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Ubuntu 10.04 and RSysLog kernel messages

Vlad — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:33:09 +0000

Ubuntu 10.04 comes with a modification in the way rsyslog processes kernel messages on certain kernels like Linode's latest Paravirt. You will se the following error in your kern.log file everytime the machine is rebooted or you restart the rsyslogd daemon: kernel: imklog: Cannot read proc file system, 1. This bug is described here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+source/rsyslog/+bug/523610. Also , because of the fact that kernel messages are not logged you won't be able...

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Installing the firewall

Vlad — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:17:27 +0000

There are many ways of establishing iptables rules in Linux, but my favorite one is to create my own bash script in which I can use things like conditional filtering. So for that we will avoid using iptables-save(restore) and we'll create the following script: read more

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Ubuntu 10.04 Optimized Virtual Private Server

Vlad — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:49:24 +0000

A virtual private server (VPS) is a physical server that has been divided (using software) into several virtual machines, each acting as an independent dedicated server. The physical resources such as RAM, CPU and disk space are still shared, but each VPS acts independently of the others. Each VPS can have a different operating system and can be configured in any way possible. read more

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