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How To Configure Apache To Use Radius For Two-Factor Authentication On Ubuntu

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:58:37 +0100

How To Configure Apache To Use Radius For Two-Factor Authentication On Ubuntu

This document describes how to add WiKID two-factor authentication to Apache 2.x using mod_auth_radius on Ubuntu 8.1. A previous article described how to add two factor authentication to apache on Fedora. Interestingly, a patch has been created to update mod_auth_radius to work with Apache 2.2+, however, it has only been updated for Debian and Ubuntu. For Fedora and other RedHat flavors of Linux, it is recommended that you use mod_auth_xradius.

The Useful Uses Of Mod Rewrite

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:28:23 +0100

In this tutorial, I'm going to be teaching what mod rewrite is and few examples of its uses. Mod rewrite is a powerful tool and one of the simplest ways to make your website more SEO friendly.

Drupal + Postfix Integration Under Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy)

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:39:39 +0200

Drupal + Postfix Integration Under Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy)

This document will guide you through the necessary steps to configure a Drupal driven mail server. It provides the following features: Drupal managed email accounts, support for virtual domains, automatic forwarding, Postfix quota support, silent BCC monitoring, anti-spam, anti-virus.

Benchmark: Apache2 vs. Lighttpd (Images)

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:00:35 +0200

Benchmark: Apache2 vs. Lighttpd (Images)

This benchmark shows how Apache2 (version 2.2.3) and lighttpd (version 1.4.13) perform compared to each other when delivering an image file (jpg, about 25KB in size). This benchmark was created with the help of ab (Apache benchmark) on a VMware vm (Debian Etch); if you try this yourself, your numbers might differ (depending on your hardware), but the tendency should be the same.

Benchmark: Apache2 vs. Lighttpd (Static HTML Files)

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:29:22 +0200

Benchmark: Apache2 vs. Lighttpd (Static HTML Files)

This benchmark shows how Apache2 (version 2.2.3) and lighttpd (version 1.4.13) perform compared to each other when delivering a static HTML file (about 50KB in size). This benchmark was created with the help of ab (Apache benchmark) on a VMware vm (Debian Etch); if you try this yourself, your numbers might differ (depending on your hardware), but the tendency should be the same.

How To Manage Apache Resources Limits With mod_slotlimit (Debian Etch)

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:50:25 +0200

How To Manage Apache Resources Limits With mod_slotlimit (Debian Etch)

mod_slotlimit is an Apache module that using dynamic slot allocation algorithm and static rules, can manage resources used for each running site.

How To Block Spammers/Hackers With Apache2's mod_spamhaus (Debian Etch)

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:16:39 +0200

How To Block Spammers/Hackers With Apache2's mod_spamhaus (Debian Etch)

mod_spamhaus is an Apache module that uses DNSBL in order to block spam relay via web forms, preventing URL injection, block http DDoS attacks from bots and generally protecting your web service denying access to a known bad IP address.

Installing memcached And The PHP5 memcache Module On Debian Etch (Apache2)

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:11:48 +0200

Installing memcached And The PHP5 memcache Module On Debian Etch (Apache2)

This guide explains how to install memcached and the PHP5 memcache module on a Debian Etch system with Apache2. memcached is a daemon that can store objects in the system's memory (e.g. results of database queries) which can speed up your web site tremendously. You can use memcached over a network (i.e., install your web application on one server and memcached on another server), but usually you install both on one server to avoid the networking overhead.

How To Set Up Apache, Tomcat (mod_jk), SSO (CAS, mod_auth_cas)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:30:56 +0200

How To Set Up Apache, Tomcat (mod_jk), SSO (CAS, mod_auth_cas)

This article describes how you can set up Apache and Tomcat, linked with mod_jk. It also explains how you set up the SSO (single sign on) solution JA-SIG CAS to protect servlets (provided by tomcat) and static content (provided by Apache). I worked with OpenSuse 10.2 and 11, Apache2, Tomcat 5.5 and 6. It should work on other distributions as well.

Running Vhosts Under Separate UIDs/GIDs With Apache2 mpm-peruser On Debian Etch

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:38:18 +0200

Running Vhosts Under Separate UIDs/GIDs With Apache2 mpm-peruser On Debian Etch

This article explains how you can install and configure apache2-mpm-peruser on a Debian Etch server. apache2-mpm-peruser is an MPM (Multi-Processing Module) for the Apache 2 web server, very similar to apache2-mpm-itk, but faster (almost as fast as apache2-mpm-prefork). mpm-peruser allows you to run each of your vhosts under a separate UID and GID - in short, the scripts and configuration files for one vhost no longer have to be readable for all the other vhosts. It is based on metuxmpm, a working implementation of the perchild MPM. The result is a sane and secure web server environment for your users, without kludges like PHP's safe_mode.

Running Vhosts Under Separate UIDs/GIDs With Apache2 mpm-itk On Debian Etch

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:40:11 +0200

Running Vhosts Under Separate UIDs/GIDs With Apache2 mpm-itk On Debian Etch

This article explains how you can install and configure apache2-mpm-itk on a Debian Etch server. apache2-mpm-itk is an MPM (Multi-Processing Module) for the Apache 2 web server. mpm-itk allows you to run each of your vhost under a separate UID and GID - in short, the scripts and configuration files for one vhost no longer have to be readable for all the other vhosts. mpm-itk works with mod_php because mpm-itk is based on the traditional prefork MPM, which means it's non-threaded. This means you don't need to use suExec or suPHP anymore to run a website's PHP scripts as a separate user.

How To Install Django On Mandriva 2008.1 (Apache2/mod_python)

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:28:44 +0200

How To Install Django On Mandriva 2008.1 (Apache2/mod_python)

This tutorial explains how to install Django on a Mandriva 2008.1 server. Django is a web framework that allows to develop Python web applications quickly with as much automation as possible. I will use it with Apache2 and mod_python in this guide.

How To Install Django On Fedora 9 (Apache2/mod_python)

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:19:31 +0200

How To Install Django On Fedora 9 (Apache2/mod_python)

This tutorial explains how to install Django on a Fedora 9 server. Django is a web framework that allows to develop Python web applications quickly with as much automation as possible. I will use it with Apache2 and mod_python in this guide.

How To Install Django On Debian Etch (Apache2/mod_python)

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:45:59 +0200

How To Install Django On Debian Etch (Apache2/mod_python)

This tutorial explains how to install Django on a Debian Etch server. Django is a web framework that allows to develop Python web applications quickly with as much automation as possible. I will use it with Apache2 and mod_python in this guide.

Reduce Apache's Load With Nginx On RHEL 5.2

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:21:31 +0200

Reduce Apache's Load With Nginx On RHEL 5.2

This how-to describes how to install and configure Nginx to accelerate an Apache server based on RHEL 5.2.