Tag: Apache

  • Speed up WordPress leveraging front end optimization

    Speed up WordPress leveraging front end optimization

    At work, I get asked about content delivery networks (CDNs) and how they fit into the performance arsenals you have to deploy to a website. This article is as much help to me like anyone else and to have my answers all in an article that I can reference and share with others.

  • How to get SSL working on MAMP for OS X

    How to get SSL working on MAMP for OS X

    I’m doing a fair deal of development in the area of RESTFul API  features, all of which use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to ensure the security of personal information being transmitted over the internet.

  • How to trouble shoot a slow Linux server

    How to trouble shoot a slow Linux server

    Are you find your server is running slowly, how to troubleshot to find out what is causing the problem. Lets start looking at the server, you need to login to your server to run the command top

  • Tweaking your server to not get the “Error establishing a database connection”

    Tweaking your server to not get the “Error establishing a database connection”

    For months now my server has been running ok, I only had a small issue with a misconfigured varnish server, that caused the PHP session cookies to not work.

  • How to speed up page load for your WordPress blog

    How to speed up page load for your WordPress blog

    As part of launching a new WordPress website, you need to do some optimization from the standard installation and give your WordPress improved performance improve page loads. There are a number of ways you can do this, I will in this article take you through the options that are available to you. There might be…

  • How to configure .htaccess redirects based on Geo IP

    How to configure .htaccess redirects based on Geo IP

    Recently I had a request, asking how can we set up redirects by country to have country-specific landing pages. This can be done by installing mod_geoip, you can download GeoIP legacy Apache module from GITHUB – compile the source on your environment and configure. Or you could install from a repository.

  • 20 Linux Server Security Tips

    Securing your Linux server is important to protect your data, intellectual property, and time, from the hands of hackers. The system administrator is responsible for the security Linux box. In this first part of a Linux server security series, I will provide 20 hardening tips for the default installation of Linux system. #1: Encrypt Data…