Category: Webservers

CentOS / Nginx / PHP-FPM / WordPress

February 13, 2014

Some quick notes on building a CentOS server with Nginx, PHP-FPM and WordPress. First here’s great tutorial that covers the different Fedura / CentOS / RedHat versions: http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2011/install-nginx-php-fpm-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel/ To support WordPress I added the following line into /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/acme.com.conf:

location / {
        index index.html index.htm index.php;
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}

location / {

index index.html index.htm index.php;

try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;

}

Apache mod_fcgi on CentOS 6.4

February 6, 2014

There are a lot of tutorials on how to install mod_fcgi with suexec out there but many are incomplete, outdated or just don’t work. One that does work is here: http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-set-up-apache2-with-mod_fcgid-and-php5-on-centos-6.2

Scale Out For SharkTank

December 7, 2013

Recently one of our clients was featured on SharkTank, the critically-acclaimed business-themed show, featuring the Sharks and their continuing the search to invest in the best businesses and products that America has to offer. Fohawx is a line of cool accessories that can easily attach to any kind of safety helmet – instantly transforming annoying headgear into a fashion statement. The appearance on SharkTank was a great opportunity for Fohawx to showcase their product. Based on past experience we know that their web site could get 5000 or more simultaneous users. The small RackSpace Cloud Server on which they were hosted would be vaporized by this traffic. Due to the proprietary nature of their application server (ColdFusion) we could not add additional web servers. So a couple of days before the event we outlined measures to temporarily scale out their hosting capacity: 1. Re-sized the web server to 16GB of RAM. We

SSL Best Practices Article

October 28, 2013

Here’s a great article on best practices for SSL deployments: https://www.ssllabs.com/downloads/SSL_TLS_Deployment_Best_Practices_1.3.pdf

Log X-Forwarded-For Headers

October 17, 2013

If your Apache instance is behind a proxy or load balancer then you’ll need to setup a custom log format to capture the X-Forwarded-For header so that you logs include the IP address of the client:

LogFormat "%{X-Forwarded-For}i %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" proxycombined

1	LogFormat "%{X-Forwarded-For}i %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" proxycombined

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