How To Install And Configure mod_auth_mysql On Apache

by LinuxAdmin.io - August 17, 2017August 17, 20172

What Is Mod_Auth_Mysql? mod_auth_mysql is a Apache module used for authenticating users against a MySQL database. It is commonly used to protect pages and directories accessed via a web browser. You can view more about it on the project page. This guide assumes you already have a working mysql installation and Apache

How To Use Percona Xtrabackup To Create A MySQL Slave

by LinuxAdmin.io - August 13, 20170

Percona Xtrabackup can be used to create "hot backups" of MySQL servers fairly quickly and can avoid some of the pitfalls of mysqldump. Xtrabackup can be setup to use backup locks instead of read locks which is much less invasive, this is available on innodb tables. MyISAM and other tables

Galera Cluster MariaDB Configuration On CentOS 7

by LinuxAdmin.io - August 9, 2017August 12, 20172

Galera cluster is a true multi-master MySQL cluster using synchronous replication. It allows for any of the nodes to be used as a master or all of them as well as providing automatic node joining and node removal. The multi-master configuration is very different from the typical master-slave configuration

How To Install And Test Go On CentOS

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by LinuxAdmin.io - August 7, 20170

Go also known as golang, is a compiled computer programming language developed by google. It is loosely based on the C language but designed to overcome some of its short comings. It is a general purpose language and can be used from server-side development to games and streaming media. It

How to Save PHP Sessions in Memcached

by LinuxAdmin.io - August 6, 2017August 6, 20170

Memcached is a high performance storage engine designed for storing chunks for data, so it is great for storing sessions in it. The upside of doing this you notice a performance benefit from not writing these disk or a database is that you gain a performance increase. The downside is