Articles tagged with apache

  1. ab Results Before and After Server Move

    Posted on in System Administration

    Electronic Eye

    Behold, the benefits of virtualization!

    I spent most of the evening preparing to move a few websites. I decided to do some benchmarking just to see what sort of improvement I was getting from the new server setup. Although the old server didn't feel slow when browsing sites, the results …

  2. Firefox Craves Updated Favicon

    Posted on in Software

    Apache HTTP Server Logo

    I was digging through my Apache httpd access logs the other day and noticed that a particular Firefox user was hitting my favicon over and over. In fact, it seemed to be making the request every 10 seconds or so. At this point, I'm sort of assuming that someone's Firefox …

  3. WordPress Permalinks Not Working

    Posted on in System Administration

    Official WordPress LogoWhile setting up a new blog for an old site the other day, I ran into a situation where the main page would work, but individual posts would result in a 404 (page not found) error. Checking the error log revealed that Apache could not find the file it was …

  4. Warning: DocumentRoot does not exist

    Posted on in System Administration

    If you're using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or one of it's variants (CentOS, etc.), you may have noticed that using a non-standard document root for your Apache-based web site results in a DocumentRoot does not exist warning if the directory exists. The most likely cause of this problem is …

  5. Apache, SSL, Rails and a Broken Redirect

    Posted on in Programming

    steam locomotive (photo by benedeki)If you are using Apache and <acronym title="Secure Sockets Layer">SSL</acronym> as a proxy front-end for your Ruby on Rails application, you might have a problem with redirects if the backend server (Mongrel, for example) does not use SSL.

    In a nutshell, you'll discover that redirects are sent …

  6. Let's Install JSON for PHP 5

    Posted on in System Administration

    I recently started messing around with building my own Facebook application. I figured the best way to start learning was to download the demo application and get it working on the Slaptijack web server. I quickly ran into a problem:

    PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function json_encode()
    

    The problem …

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