Category: Web Servers

How to install OpenLiteSpeed, an excellent web server

Leave a Comment / Web Servers / sedlav / June 1, 2023

OpenLiteSpeed is a high performance and lightweight HTTP server developed by LiteSpeed Technologies. OpenLiteSpeed is cross-platform (GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS) and can be integrated with applications developed in PHP, Ruby, Perl and Java.

OpenLiteSpeed is free to download, use, distribute and modify under the GPLv3 license.

Main features

Event-driven architecture.
Compatible with Apache’s mod_rewrite module.
Native Web Control Panel that allows you to manage the server from a web interface.
Protection against DDOS attack.
ModSecurity V3 integration.
Native cache system.
Native SAPI for PHP that allows applications to run up to 50% faster.
Cache plugin for WordPress.

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How to install NGINX on Alpine Linux?

Leave a Comment / Web Servers / sedlav / March 3, 2023

Nginx is a lightweight and high performance web server/reverse/email(IMAP/POP3) proxy.

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How to install NGINX on NetBSD?

Leave a Comment / Web Servers / sedlav / December 28, 2021

NGINX is a web server with excellent performance and low memory footprint. NGINX can also be used as a reverse proxy (FastCGI, Apache, uWSGI), as a proxy for mail protocols (IMAP, POP3) and as a load balancer.

In this post we will install NGINX as a FastCGI proxy then the PHP requests will be redirected to a PHP-FPM server.

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How to install and configure NGINX as reverse proxy

Leave a Comment / Web Servers / sedlav / May 27, 2021

NGINX is a web server with excellent performance and low memory footprint. NGINX can be used as a reverse HTTP proxy, as a generic TCP / UPD proxy, as a mail proxy server and as a load balancer, today we will install NGINX on Debian GNU/Linux and use it as a generic TPC/UPD proxy.

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How to install Apache on Ubuntu 20.04?

Leave a Comment / Web Servers / sedlav / December 14, 2020

The Apache HTTP Server Project is a community effort to develop and maintain a “free software” HTTP server for modern operating systems (UNIX, GNU / Linux, BSD, Windows).

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How to redirect URL with Apache

Leave a Comment / Web Servers / sedlav / May 3, 2020

mod_rewrite is a powerful and sophisticated Apache web server module that allows urls to be rewritten using regular expressions. To redirect the urls to the corresponding url with www in front.

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How to install Apache web server on Android?

Leave a Comment / Web Servers / sedlav / February 22, 2020

The Apache HTTP Server Project is a community effort to develop and maintain an open source HTTP server for modern operating systems (UNIX, GNU / Linux, BSD, Windows). The objective of this project is to provide a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services in accordance with current HTTP standards.

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Install and configure Apache HTTP server

Leave a Comment / Web Servers / sedlav / November 13, 2016

Apache HTTP is a general purpose web server, designed to achieve a balance between flexibility, portability and performance. Apache HTTP has a modular architecture which allows to extend the basic functionality by selecting a set of modules: the modules are compiled as Dynamic Shared Objects (DSO) and they may be enabled/disabled using the LoadModule directive.

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Concatenating RewriteCond

Leave a Comment / Web Servers / sedlav / May 9, 2016

If you want to concatenate RewriteCond with logical AND it is enough to put them one under the other view:

– Convert url to lower case using Apache HTTP

If you want to concatenate them with a logical OR then we must use the [OR] operator

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Convert url to lower case using Apache HTTP

Leave a Comment / Web Servers / sedlav / May 8, 2016

If your site respond to urls that contain uppercase and lowercase characters (the same page responds to urls: yourdomain.com/my-Url, yourdomain.com/my-url), taking into account SEO parameters that is not good since the search engines are case-sensitive so you'd have more than one page indexed with the same content. A trick you can use is to convert all urls to lowercase, so:

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