Wikipedia architecture (PDFs)
http://dammit.lt/2007/04/29/wikipedia-site-internals-etc-the-workbook/ This blog entry contains links to two PDFs on Wikipedia's architecture and how they dealt with the LAMP stack. One is Wikipedia:...
View ArticleUsing a WebDAV server to share stuff (settings, preferences) between multiple...
I use a Mac at home and Ubuntu at work, but in both cases I use Firefox to browse the web. I've a nice set of Adblock filters and I started thinking how to share the same filter set between my home...
View ArticleUsing PAM authentication in Apache 2.2.x
Basically you'll need the mod_auth_pam module (the libapache2-mod-auth-pam package in Debian) and the mod_auth_sys_group module (the libapache2-mod-auth-sys-group package in Debian). The latter is...
View ArticleRegular calls to Drupal cron.php scripts on a server with a number of Drupal...
Calling the cron.php of a Drupal site is fairly easy. You just have to put something similiar into your server's /etc/crontab:0 * * * * www-data test -x /usr/bin/wget && /usr/bin/wget...
View ArticleEasiest way to activate PHP and MySQL on Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard)?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1293484/easiest-way-to-activate-php-and-mysql... A straight to the point guide on how to configure the built-in Apache (where are the config and command files), etc....
View ArticleHow To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On Debian Lenny
http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-set-up-apache2-with-mod_fcgid-and-php5-on-debia... A good article, I used to set up FCGI the same way. I had to find all the necessary info myself, when I first tried...
View ArticleFiltering out SVN's (mod_dav_svn) low-level logs in Apache's standard access_log
I've experienced the same weird behavior regarding the SVN-ACTION environment variable as Max Cantor in his post to the users@httpd mailing list. However a fairly obvious workaround can be set up with...
View ArticleHow to disable SSLv2 and Weak Ciphers in Apache and IIS
http://blog.zenone.org/2009/03/pci-compliance-disable-sslv2-and-weak.html My preferred Apache directives are: SSLProtocol ALL -SSLv2 SSLCipherSuite...
View ArticleHow to use PHP 5.2 with Debian Squeeze
Googling in the subject shows that you can downgrade PHP packages to Lenny versions without much trouble. However the already documented methods lacked a few things I consider important, thus I write...
View ArticleTLS extension to support multiple certificates for virtualhosts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_IndicationServer Name Indication (SNI) means that a compatible TLS client can send a hostname (aka. "server_name" field) in it's Client Hello message to the...
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