Category Archives: Infrastructure

nginx+drupal revisited

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

nginx

Recent nginx updates support try_files and internal location directives. These features make nginx more flexible as a web server for Drupal.

try_files checks for existence of files in order, and returns the first file that is found. In Drupal’s logic, try_files enables the server to check Boost-generated cache, imagecache images, and Drupal installation in order. @location syntax [...]

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Apache proxy, cache, and web service optimization

Sunday, July 12th, 2009

At UPEI our web pages are powered by an open-source web platform Drupal but served as static pages that are mirrored (in our terminology, scraped) by httrack to a front-end server. Most components of web pages are static except emergency messages, contact forms, and some bits of media files. All external access goes to the [...]

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PHP 5.3 and MySQL 5.1

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Running these brand new distributions.

1 2 3 4 PHP 5.3.0-0.dotdeb.6 (cgi-fcgi) (built: Jul 2 2009 06:14:07) Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2009 Zend Technologies with Xdebug v2.0.4, Copyright (c) 2002-2008, by Derick Rethans

1 2 3 Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 189435 Server version: 5.1.34-0.dotdeb.0-log [...]

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