Technical guides and operational notes filed under Apache.
Technical guides and operational notes filed under Apache.
Introduction: What is mod rewrite and how does it work? The mod rewrite module is a part of the Apache website server that dictates how the server handles URLs. It can be enabled for individual websites to allow a user…
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Command to run the Apache benchmark tool (ab) with 200 simultaneous requests until 2000 requests are completed: # ab -k -c 100 -n 2000 localhost/checkiffileexists.php Let’s run the test and compare the results. Pay…
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Knowing how much traffic your web server can handle when under stress is essential for planning future grow of your website or application. By using tool called siege , you can run a load test on your server and see how…
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Open LiteSpeed is an open source web server which comes with a lot of interesting features that helps us to manage our sites effectively. Some of the features include 1) Page Caching – which improves the loading time of…
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If you need to make customized changes to your /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, when custombuild updates apache, your configs will be changed to the new versions of the configs. There are 3 ways of making your customizations…
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Prerequisites SSH with root access or sudo user access to Debian 9 server The Apache web server with properly a domain and vhost configured Step 1: Installing Let’sEncrypt certbot The first step to using Let’s Encrypt…
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You can check the current version of apache by running /usr/sbin/httpd -v CustomBuild - current If you're using custombuild (as most new boxes are), run the following cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild ./build update…
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As of DA 1.50.0, DirectAdmin have added a new feature that allows you to make use of LetsEncrypt, a tool offering free basic SSL certificates. There is a script written in such a manner that you can also setup SSL for…
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How to fix the “Missing temporary folder” error? To fix this error, you have to edit the wp-config.php file in WordPress. You can edit this file using file manager or FTP. The file will be there in the root directory of…
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If the security of website has been the focus of attention for several years already, it has become even more central since the start of the year and the American presidential elections. The emails exchanged in an…
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