The default Nginx maximum body-size of a client request, or maximum file size is 1M. So when you try to upload something larger than 1M, you get the following error: 413: Request Entity Too Large
Create a new configuration file: [Read more…]
Apache short paths
A little trick to simplify your apache virtual hosts configuration, instead of full paths you can use some predefined variables like the directory of apache logs or the configuration directory.
${APACHE_LOG_DIR} is for /var/log/apache2
1 2 | ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log |
$APACHE_CONFDIR is for /etc/apache2
1 | $APACHE_CONFDIR/mods-available |
APC – Alternative PHP Cache
A PHP-accelerator is a PHP extension designed to improve the performance of software applications written in the PHP language.
Most PHP accelerators work by caching the compiled p-code (portable code) of PHP-Scripts to avoid the overhead of reparsing and recompiling source code on each request made for example by a stupid bot.
APC is free, open source framework that optimizes PHP intermediate code and caches data and compiled code from the PHP bytecode compiler in shared memory. APC is quickly becoming the de-facto standard PHP caching mechanism as it will be included built-in to the core of PHP starting with PHP 6 <- Great news! [Read more…]
Generate self-signed certificate
Quick and easy – generate self-signed certificate in one line:
1 | openssl req -new -newkey rsa:4096 -days 365 -nodes -x509 -keyout ipv6.mysql.idrobot.net.key -out ipv6.mysql.idrobot.net.crt |
Country Name (2 letter code) [AU]:DE
State or Province Name (full name) [Some-State]:Niedersachsen
Locality Name (eg, city) []:Hannover
[Internet Widgits Pty Ltd]:ipv6.mysql.idrobot.net
Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:
Common Name (eg, YOUR name) []:Igor Drobot
Email Address []:id@drobot.de
Enable CGI in Apache2
If you want to enable CGI support for you domain or subdomain.
Install Apache2 mod-perl module:
1 | aptitude install libapache2-mod-perl2 |
Add this to the Apache configuration:
1 2 3 4 | <directory "="" var="" www="" domain="" cgi-scripts"=""> Allow from all Options All FollowSymLinks MultiViews </directory> |
Only scripts in directory /var/www/cgi-scripts can be executed as CGI.