Today was about optimizing my LAMP stack here because as you know, speed can only be replaced by more speed. Last time I was moving my MySQL server to a different machine, but I was certain that there’s more to be done for the ultimate speed gain. In this case it was luck discovering some more options. Just […]
Tag: webserver
Apache 2.2.20 is out
As the bugfixed version 2.2.20 of the apache webserver hit the portage tree on gentoo, it’s safe to remove the security hacks which leaded to some uncool problems with Git. Finally things are going back to normal.
Speed up!
I don’t deny that my blog wasn’t too fast during the last year, which is one of those problems that are simply annoying but not fixed with high priority as things ‘work’ – somehow. But now I decided to improve things.
Strange requests
I was analyzing some logfiles of my webserver during the last days and watched a huge number of strange hits coming from rather strange hosts: index.php?page=http://www.xxxxxxxx.com/path/to/file.txt What the heck is going on here? What does the URL do? Well – it’s there for purpose – so let’s fetch it. (URL above is cloaked for security reasons) A good […]
mod_rewrite problem
Since I have worked out the separated rss feeds for my page, I have to battle with mod_rewrite again, which I definitively dislike as I always tend to wreck my sites that way. My current .htaccess file works quite the way I’d need it, but I’d need to extend it for the new feeds. Well – here it […]