If you are getting this error on a fresh server – most probably your nginx configuration is not tuned. In order to avoid this error, we’ll add a line to config. So open /etc/nginx/nginx.conf and add this line under http section client_max_body_size 16M; You can set up more than 16 Mb if you need, but generally it is… Read More »
As you might already know, most recent version of Apache is 2.4.9 (for today). If you want to upgrade to it, you should perform too many changes in your server software, since it has references to many other packages. If you need a stable server – you should upgrade it to legacy 2.2.27 version. You can download source… Read More »
Sometimes you might need to include PHP code into HTML pages. For example, you want to include a menu, that is called via PHP in a static HTML page and you cannot rename your files into PHP for many reasons. I will tell you how to do this on a dedicated server and on a shared hosting account.… Read More »
This is not a trick, but a must for server security. If you would like to limit your users’ ability to execute the code, located on remote servers, you should ensure your php.ini has the following lines: allow_url_fopen=Off allow_url_include=Off Of course, this will not save you from insecure code, but this is one of the first steps you… Read More »
Recently I’ve had a problem with a server that had an SSL certificate installed. By default, SSL configuration requires a password protected key. If you have the same configuration and you’re trying to make apache starting on server boot, you have to input the password every time when it is booted. It is ok if you have a… Read More »
If you have a SSL certificate installed, you might want to force your visitors to use secure version of it. Sometimes you cannot modify httpd.conf, the only file that can resolve the issue is .htaccess. Let me paste the code below to help you set this up. RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} This code checks… Read More »
When you get your new Directadmin server, it comes with default settings like Apache 1.3 and PHP4. I have already written how to update PHP version to PHP5. Today I will post a solution that can be used to upgrade your apache installation on a Directadmin server. The idea is not mine, it is taken from Directadmin Official… Read More »
It is often hard to tell which process causes most Apache load. top and ps -aux commands don’t give us anything usable; they only allow us to see that Apache causes server load. We need to identify which scripts are not so good for server load and fix them. The first advice is to view Apache server status.… Read More »
I do often monitor server apache status as most often reason of server outages is Apache overload. Some web hosting panels are sending notifications when your server is down; some web services like Alertra.com provide you with different notification options and one of my hosters has his internal monitoring service. But what to do if you need to… Read More »
It is often necessary to extract text from a variable that contains HTML or XML code. I’ve created a simple regular expression that will help you to extract all text between certain tags into an array. It is a PHP solution, though regular expression is compatible with other programming languages. preg_match_all(“/<tag>(.*?)</tag>/”, $source, $results); This construsion will create an… Read More »