Tag: apache

Aug 19 2020

How to remove mod_pagespeed from access.log

If you have mod_pagespeed installed on your webserver you may notice the following lines in access.log file:

Depending on the size of your website requests from mod_pagespeed can add flood your logfiles and their size will be significantly larger. Here is how you can exclude mod_pagespeed requests from access.log file

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Aug 19 2020

How not to log certain requests in Apache

By default Apache logs all requests. Sometimes you need to exclude logging of certain requests from Apache‘s access.log. For example some automated requests coming and flood your log distorting your statistics. This short guide shows how you use Apache’s SetEnvIf directive to prevent Apache from logging such requests.

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Jan 24 2020

Magento server performance configuration

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There are best practices in Magento 2 performance configuration of operating system, MySQL, PHP and webserver. This article covers important configurations of all components that will speed up the Magento site.

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Mar 28 2018

How To Create SSL Certificate for Apache on CentOS 7

An SSL certificate is an electronic ‘document’ that is used to bind together a public security key and a website’s identity information (such as name, location, etc.) by means of a digital signature. The ‘document’ is issued by a certificate provider such as GlobalSign, Verisign, GoDaddy, Comodo, Thawte, and others. In this article I will …

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Mar 28 2018

Redirect HTTP to HTTPS in Apache

Let’s say you want all traffic to your website use secured connection. You can redirect HTTP to HTTPS in Apache like following: Using virtual hosts and Redirect directive When using SSL, you will frequently have at least two virtual hosts: one on port 80 to serve ordinary requests, and one on port 443 to serve …

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Feb 15 2018

Apache Display Active Connections

To see active connections and performance of Apache server Status module can be used. A HTML page will be presented that gives the current server statistics in an easily readable form. If required this page can be made to automatically refresh (given a compatible browser). Another page gives a simple machine-readable list of the current …

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Dec 27 2017

Apache HTTPOnly and Secure Cookie

Having HTTPOnly and Secure in HTTP response header can help to protect your web applications from cross-site scripting and session manipulation attacks. Here is how to configure HTTPOnly Secure Cookie Attribute in Apache.

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Nov 28 2017

Apache SSL: error:0B080074:x509 certificate routines:X509_check_private_key:key values mismatch

For Apache error message is: [Tue Jan 23 12:51:37 2017] [error] Unable to configure RSA server private key [Tue Jan 23 12:51:37 2017] [error] SSL Library Error: 185073780 error:0B080074: x509 certificate routines:X509_check_private_key:key values mismatch

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Nov 06 2017

Enable Apache event MPM with php-fpm

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Starting from version 2.4 Apache offers 3 MPM (Multi-processing Module) we can choose from, depending on your needs. The prefork MPM uses multiple child processes without threading. Each process handles one connection at a time without creating separate threads for each. Without going into too much detail, we can say that you will want to …

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Oct 27 2017

Apache Error: No matching DirectoryIndex (index.html) found

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This error may occur when attempting to access applications that have an index.php file (or other index file), but not an index.html or other specified ‘directory index’ file. For example, phpMyAdmin includes an index.php file upon installation, but not an index.html file. By default Apache is configured with the following:

…meaning that Apache will …

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