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mod_fastcgi Installation on Apache 2.2
What is mod_fastcgi? mod_fastcgi is an Apache module for interfacing with CGI programs allowing a server to handle more requests at one time. It does this by keeping an instance of php running in the background. When apache receives the request it forwards it to FasctCGI. It can increase performance and reduce memory useage over […]
ModSecurity Installation With Apache On CentOS
ModSecurity is an open source monitoring system for web applications. It has powerful rule sets that allow you to protect applications from attacks. View the project for more details. It provides a ton of features such as: More than 16,000 specific rules, broken out into the following attack categories: * SQL injection * Cross-site Scripting (XSS) […]
mod_auth_token Installation In Apache
mod_auth_token is a apache module that can be used to sign URLs, using this it can create time based urls that expire after a certain amount of time. It will prevent hot linking as the URLs will expire. This is particularly useful with video and image sharing. To get started you will need to have […]
Compile Apache 2.4 From Source
Compiling Apache 2.4 from source is easy and allows for more customization later on. It also allows for control over where it is installed Install some required depedencies: yum install -y wget pcre-devel openssl openssl-devel expat-devel First get the latest version, at the time of writing this it is 2.4.25. The link to download the […]
PHP-FPM With PHP7 From Source
PHP 7 has great performance benefits and combining that with Nginx when using php-fpm you can get seriously impressive load times! Compiling from source offers more control over where packages are installed and what modules are enabled. If you would like to read more about php-fpm, you can visit the project page Download the dependencies […]
Setup and Optimize Zend OpCache
Zend OPCache: Zend OpCache is a caching engine that comes with PHP by default in later releases (PHP 5.5 and above). It is a caching engine that stores precompiled php code in memory which ultimately results in performance increase as the code does not have to be fully recompiled on each new request. The degree to […]
Compiling PHP from source on CentOS
PHP is a open source scripting language, commonly used for web development. The code is executed on the server before being displayed to clients unlike other languages like JavaScript. PHP can also be used for command line actions as well and has a wide range of libraries and frameworks for it. This guide is how […]
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