lighttpd

Configure Lighttpd Web Server To Use NFS Shared Static Files

Posted on in Categories lighttpd, Linux, RedHat/Fedora Linux last updated June 22, 2012

The Lighttpd web server is responsible for providing access to static content via the HTTP or HTTPS protocol. In this example, I’m going to install and use the Lighttpd web server and set DocumentRoot to vm05:/exports/static mounted at /var/www/static. You need to type the following commands on vm01 having an IP address 192.168.1.10 only.

This blog post is part in the “Run Different Linux Network Services on Separate Systems/VM” series.

Create Custom URL Shortener For WordPress Based Blog In a Five Minutes

Posted on in Categories Apache, lighttpd, php last updated May 3, 2012

You can create URL redirection service for your blog within five minutes using nothing but web server’s mod_redirect module. For example, when you type or share a url io9.in/t/5159 you will be automatically redirected to http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/my-10-unix-command-line-mistakes.html. In this quick post I will explain how to create url shortener and integrate your wordpress based blog without installing any new scripts.

HowTo: Configure Vbulletin To Use A Content Delivery Network (CDN)

Posted on in Categories Apache, lighttpd, Networking last updated June 11, 2010

The last time I wrote about CDN, I wrote about how to configure CDN for wordpress to speed up your wordpress blog to display content to users faster and more efficiently. However, a few regular readers like to know how to configure the Amazon CDN or other CDN network to use with Vbulletin forum software. In this quick tutorial, I will explains how to configure Vbulletin, Apache/Lighttpd webserver, Bind dns server to use a CDN to distribute your common files such as css, js, user uploaded files and lighten load on your web server.

HowTo: Configure WordPress To Use A Content Delivery Network (CDN)

Posted on in Categories Apache, lighttpd, Networking last updated April 2, 2010

Research shows that if your web pages take longer than 5 seconds to load, you lose 50% of your viewers and sales. You can speed up your wordpress blog by using a CDN to display content to users faster and more efficiently. You can distributes common files or content such as css, javascript, uploaded images, videos and much more through a CDN, which serves the content from the closest cdn edge server to the end-user. In this tutorial, I will explains how to configure Wordpress, Apache/Lighttpd webserver, Bind dns server to use a CDN to distribute your common files such as css, js, user uploaded files and lighten load on your web server.

Lighttpd Traffic Shaping: Throttle Connections Per Single IP (Rate Limit)

Posted on in Categories Apache, CentOS, fedora linux, FreeBSD, Howto, Iptables, lighttpd, Linux, Networking, PF Firewall, RedHat/Fedora Linux, Security, Ubuntu Linux, UNIX last updated June 21, 2009

If you do not control or throttle end users, your server may run out of resources. Spammers, abuser and badly written bots can eat up all your bandwidth. A webserver must keep an eye on connections and limit connections per second. This is serving 101. The default is no limit. Lighttpd can limit the throughput for each single connection (per IP) or for all connections. You also need to a use firewall to limit connections per second. In this article I will cover firewall and lighttpd web server settings to throttle end users. The firewall settings can be applied to other web servers such as Apache / Nginx and IIS server behind PF / netfilter based firewall.

Lighttpd mod_rrdtool: Monitor The Load, Requests Per Seconds and Traffic

Posted on in Categories CentOS, Debian Linux, fedora linux, Hardware, Howto, lighttpd, Linux, Monitoring, RedHat/Fedora Linux, Ubuntu Linux last updated May 23, 2009

The round-robin database tool aims to handle time-series data like network bandwidth, temperatures, CPU load etc. The data gets stored in round-robin database so that system storage footprint remains constant over time. Lighttpd comes with mod_rrdtool to monitor the server load and other details. This is useful for debugging and tuning lighttpd / fastcgi server performance.

Lighttpd Install mod_geoip For Country / City Level Geo Targeting

Posted on in Categories CentOS, Debian Linux, FreeBSD, Gentoo Linux, Howto, lighttpd, Linux, Networking, package management, RedHat/Fedora Linux, Suse Linux, Ubuntu Linux, UNIX last updated March 29, 2009

Geolocation software is used to get the geographic location of visitor using IP address. You can determine country, organization and guess visitors location. This is useful for:

a] Fraud detection.

b] Geo marketing and ad serving.

c] Target content.

d] Spam fighting.

e] And much more.

mod_geoip is a Lighttpd module for fast ip/location lookups. In this tutorial you will learn about mod_geoip installation and php server side examples to determine visitors country.

Apache2 mod_fastcgi: Connect to External PHP via UNIX Socket or TCP/IP Port

Posted on in Categories Apache, CentOS, fedora linux, Howto, lighttpd, Networking, php, RedHat/Fedora Linux, Security, Tips, Troubleshooting, Tuning last updated December 30, 2008

Now, mod_fastcgi is configured and running. FastCGI supports connection via UNIX sockets or TCP/IP networking. This is useful to spread load among various backends. For example, php will be severed from 192.168.1.10 and python / ruby on rails will be severed from 192.168.1.11. This is only possible with mod_fastcgi.