Entries Related to ‘Web Server’

Apache, Tomcat, two-way proxying, and URL rewriting all thrown together? Learn how by reading how one company made it work.

MediaWiki is the software that powers Wikipedia and countless other wiki-based websites. This guide walks you through installing MediaWiki and offers some tips and tricks for configuring it to make it more useful.

The popular Drupal content management system lacks an easy way to manage image galleries. Here’s a simply plugin that lets you easily add images, video, and even sound to your Drupal-powered sites.

Learn how to employ some of Apache’s most useful and effective modules to restrict access to your Apache-powered website.

ht://Dig lets you keep track of the text on a single website or a group of sites. Controlling your own search engine for your website gives you control over the detail of how the search works, and you can search across multiple sub-sites, or not, as you prefer. Here’s how to create a personal search engine for your personal domain.

ModSecurity is a free, open source Apache module that acts as web application firewall (WAF). Its rich features, strong community, and optional commercial support make it a must for any production Apache web server that serves non-static content and requires auditing.

In the first part of this series, we studied how to implement and use a server-side proxy to contact a remote service, and how to use the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) to process the XML results from the Google Geocoding API. For many applications, however, JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is an even better fit than XML for GWT, since it can be easily processed with JavaScript. Let’s see how to use this alternative format, and, by the way, discover how to do so without any server-side proxies by means of JSON with Padding (JSONP), an interesting extension of the JSON concept.

With all you rely on your Linux server for, you need your system to be as secure as possible. That means taking steps to keep the kernel up to date, enhance user security, and control daemons and other processes. Here are some essential steps to take to harden your Linux servers.

Installing and maintaining a secure web server on Linux can be a challenge. It requires in-depth knowledge of Linux, Apache, and PHP server-side options. One of the main problems is to find the balance between security and productivity and usability. The best solution depends on the specific project requirements, but all installations share certain common characteristics. Here are some best practices for securing a LAMP server, from the server configuration to fine-tuning PHP settings.

Do you have problems serving more than two pages per second on your WordPress or Drupal blog? Do the sites of your competitors serve pages faster than yours? Their secret weapon may be a different web server and PHP combo than Apache and mod_php. But don’t worry – you can turn to one of these alternative solutions too, and improve your web server throughput without upgrading your hardware resources.