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How to install OpenLiteSpeed, an excellent web server

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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.

How to install NGINX on NetBSD?

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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.

How to install Apache web server on Android?

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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.

Install and configure Apache HTTP server

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Apache HTTPD

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.

Convert url to lower case using Apache HTTP

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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: