How to: Use NginX as a Forward Proxy server
How to: Use NginX as a Forward Proxy server Generally people use NginX as a Reverse Proxy server, which is what it was designed for. However, after working with NginX for sometime now, I...
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Resolved: Essentials Server Integration must be done on the Domain Controller
Resolved: Essentials Server Integration must be done on the Domain Controller Recently we performed a migration from our on premise Exchange server to Microsoft’s cloud solution: Exchange Online. Because of that I wanted to...
Resolve: Upstream sent too big header while reading response header from upstream when using NginX PHP FPM
Resolve: Upstream sent too big header while reading response header from upstream when using NginX PHP FPM When working with NginX you will be using an upstream PHP FPM server. Because of the way...
How to: Measure your NginX Cache Performance using $upstream_cache_status in a custom Cache log
How to: Measure your NginX Cache Performance using $upstream_cache_status in a custom Cache log One of the great features of NginX is it’s ability to cache content from a number of sources including but...
How to: Enable proper domain DNS search in Ubuntu when using Windows Azure
How to: Enable proper domain DNS search in Ubuntu when using Windows Azure So as part of the latest using your own DNS server with Linux machines inside Windows Azure I had a bit...
Make your DHCP server dynamically update your DNS records on Ubuntu
Make your DHCP server dynamically update your DNS records on Ubuntu (Obtained as is from: http://lani78.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/dhcp-server-update-dns-records/) The steps in this post shows how to configure the DHCP server to automatically update the DNS records...
How to: Set the Timezone on Ubuntu Server
How to: Set the Timezone on Ubuntu Server If you are using a VM hosted with a public cloud provider you probably have realized that they generally are deployed using UTC as the default...
Resolve: Your web-server does not have the mcrypt module installed. Without it, encryption will be a lot slower.
Resolve: Your web-server does not have the mcrypt module installed. Without it, encryption will be a lot slower. (How to install mcrypt in an Ubuntu server) I have installed UpdraftPlus in order to manage...
How to: Install Memcache for php and WordPress
How to: Install Memcache for php and WordPress In what seems the eternal quest of having a good performing hosting server one of the tools that are generally referred to is Memcache. What Memcache...
How to solve: Apache error .htaccess: ForceType not allowed here
How to solve: Apache error .htaccess: ForceType not allowed here I turned on some .htaccess rules in order for the cache to perform faster but unfortunately it came with some unintended consequences: A bunch...