WebP Image Conversion On A Linux Server
WebP is a new image format that provides a lossless and lossy compression on PNG and JPEG file types. It was developed by Google resulting in up to 80% smaller image size. It is supported on all most all modern browser versions. You can use Nginx and Apache to determine if this format is supported […]
How To Setup mod_rewrite In Apache
mod_rewrite is a Apache module installed on linux servers to manipulate URLs submitted in the browser to perform other functions than it appears. Mod_rewrite can improve SEO appearing to give it a static appearance. This guide assumes you already have Apache installed, if you do not please see How to Install Apache Enable mod_rewrite You will […]
How To Reset A MySQL Root Password
MySQL contains it own ‘root’ password independent of the system root password, this is a guide on how to reset the MySQL root password. To reset it you will need root access on the server that has the MySQL instance. The same process applies to percona and mariadb servers as well, the only differences will […]
How To Install And Configure mod_auth_mysql On Apache
What Is Mod_Auth_Mysql? mod_auth_mysql is an Apache module used for authenticating users against a MySQL database. It is commonly used to protect items on a website via a user login prompt. The module is able to authenticate against a MySQL database to check for a valid username and password, it supports various encryption methods. You can view […]
How To Use Percona Xtrabackup To Create A MySQL Slave
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 will still need to be […]
How To Install And Test Go On CentOS
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 can easily be installed on […]
How to Save PHP Sessions in Memcached
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 that memcached isn’t saving anything, […]
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