Sub domains on localhost When working with apache locally, the common way to use it is though the “http://localhost” url. When doing web development or some kind of testing, you might need to create sub domains on localhost, just like on online servers. This post shows you how to create sub domains inside Apache on… Read More »
This guide shows you how to install and configure Apache web server with php FPM using mod proxy fcgi on Ubuntu or Debian based linux servers
Guide on how to setup apache and php using CGI (Common Gateway Interface) on Ubuntu
Mod Fcgid Mod Fcgid is an apache module that enables it to talk to fastcgi enabled application. It can be used to setup with apache to run php over fastcgi. It is an alternative to the older mod_fastcgi and has some differences with it. In this post we shall be setting up apache with php… Read More »
Output Buffering Output buffering is processing mechanism where the output being generated by a program is held in a place till its size reaches a limit or the generation is complete. Only after, will the output be send to its destination. In php for example, doing and echo generates some output. Now this output might… Read More »
This tutorials shows how to setup and configure Apache web server with Php using mod fastcgi as the handler, on Ubuntu or Debian based linux servers
Apache + Php When setting up an apache+php server to run your php applications, there are lots of configuration parameters to deal with. The most important is the php Server Api (sapi). It determines how exactly is apache going to run the php scripts. Along with the php sapi another important thing to select is… Read More »
Apache is a web server that is available for all major platforms. Each OS stores the apache in a different directory or path, due to which it takes some effort to find the configuration file when needed. For example Ubuntu and fedora store it in different locations inspite of both being linux. So here are… Read More »
MPM (Multi processing module) is a component of apache server, that determines how multiple clients or connections shall be handled. Apache is flexible by design and there are different mpms that can be used with apache depending on the needs. Some MPMs create a separate process to handle each request, whereas some create separate threads…. Read More »
Install mpm itk On ubuntu mpm itk can be installed from synaptic. Look for the package called apache2-mpm-itk sudo apt-get install apache2-mpm-itk Configure Configuration for mpm itk can be done in the file sites-enabled/000-default $ gksudo gedit /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default In the VirtualHost *:80 section add this just before the end of the VirtualHost tag [xml] <IfModule… Read More »
PHP Handlers PHP handlers are a link between a webserver(say Apache) and the PHP libraries. PHP handlers enable a webserver to load the PHP library in a certain manner and execute the PHP code and return the output to the webserver. There are many different kind of PHP handler setups available. Each has its own… Read More »
Suphp Suphp php handler is an apache module (mod_suphp) that runs php scripts with ownership and permission of a specific user. This is seen as a security enhancement since the system can keep track of which user’s php script is running (and causing problems if any). In shared hosting environments suphp is very popular since… Read More »
Apache mod expires mod expires is an Apache module that can send additional expiry information about a server file to a browser. If the expiry date is set to a far future date, then the browser will fetch the file from its cache on next request and will not contact the server. This will speed… Read More »
This page http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/cgi.html describes how to give each user his own cg-bin directory. The following lines should be added to the Apache configuration file http.conf : <Directory /home/*/public_html/cgi-bin> Options ExecCGI SetHandler cgi-script </Directory> Along with this there are some more points to be kept in mind. If you .htaccess file has a section like this… Read More »
Apache Mod Rewrite mod_rewrite is an apache module which enables rewriting of urls requested by client before the pages are fetched by apache. For example www.site.com/products.php?code=459 can be written as www.site.com/products/459 or www.site.com/products/459.html. The second url is re-written into the first one by mod_rewrite using rewrite rules specified in the .htaccess file. Enable Mod Rewrite… Read More »