I’m a very minimal person when it comes to frameworks, I don’t generally like something that needs to generate an entire application file structure like you’d see with Django. When I was searching around for various frameworks to get me started with python and web development, I investigated the usual; DJango, CherryPy, Web.Py. I fell in love with circuits due it’s ease and simplicity, yet it can be quite powerful. This article will show you how to get Nginx setup with uWSGI along with a sample circuits.web application.
Category: Programming
Configuring Nginx for Nibbleblog 4.0.3
Within is a revised Nginx configuration to utilize friendly urls in NibbleBlog 4.0.3.
Allowing secure WordPress Updates with SSH2
So you want to be able to do automatic updates and plugin/theme installations, but you don’t want to leave your files wide open, or give your unprivileged PHP process too much access around the clock. This guide shows you how to set up wp-config.php with SSH specifically for php use only.
GeoIPLookup: Geolocation from the CLI
If you have your own server or use a Linux/BSD desktop at home there’s little reason why you can’t just quickly do a GeoIP lookup from the command line. Here’s how to install it on Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS and FreeBSD along with a trick or two.
Securing Nginx and PHP
Nginx Flood Protection with Limit_req
I’ll show you a very simple demonstration of Nginx’s Limit Request module and how it may be helpful to you in keeping your website up if you are hit by excessive connections or HTTP based denial-of-service attacks.
Nginx and Codeigniter The Easy Way
How to get Codeigniter running on NGinx the easy way.
Mimic Apache mod_geoip in Nginx
Maxmind makes a variety of APIs and tools to use their geolocation database and one such tool is the mod_geoip module for Apache. This article will show you how to setup Nginx’s own geoip module and mimic the same variables presented to PHP like Apache does.
PayPal IPN Revised for Python
This article adds onto the previous entry Paypal IPN with PHP, by showing you how to process an Instant Payment Notification from Paypal with Python
Path_Info & PHP_SELF woes [NginX]
Over the last couple of years I’ve been constantly researching for a way to get the PHP environment variables to show up correctly. My latest pains were with PATH_INFO and PHP_SELF, which are now finally solved.