While setting up IPv6 connectivity on host systems, OpenVz w/ veth, or Xen containers is easy, doing the same with a typical OpenVz container using venet tends to run into problems. This guide shows you how to get IPv6 going on a OpenVz VPS that only has venet available to it. Also included, some tweaks and caveats regarding setting up Nginx, Apache (httpd), and other services with IPv6 connectivity.
Category: Webservers
Protecting Folders with Nginx
This question comes up every so often, and its actually fairly easy besides the fact you do not use an .htaccess file. This writeup will show you how to implement auth_basic in Nginx as well as some alternatives to the htpasswd utility installed.
Apache and Nginx Together
This article is basically food-for-thought for those who wish to use Nginx either side-by-side or in front of the Apache (httpd) HTTP Server. Within covers tweaking the two to work with each other as well as some configuration scenarios.
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.
Nginx as a Proxy to your Blog
If you’re big into autoblogs and cross-linking you’ll likely like this. Have you ever had most of your blogs on a single server (probably behind cpanel or directadmin), but wanted some of your domains to appear to be on a different IP, or even in a different country? Well this article shows you how to setup an nginx server as a proxy so that visitors see a different IP than where the site is hosted.
Apache to Nginx Migration Tips
Nginx currently holds shy of 6.5% of the known webserver market, which is just roughly shy of 13 million servers. This little lightweight webserver created by a sole Russian developer has been gaining a great deal of popularity over the last few years and is used by sites such as Wordpress, Texts from Last Night and Hulu.
This guide will provide you with common migration tips to move from an Apache server to an Nginx configuration.
Migrating Cpanel to DirectAdmin
One of the most frustrating thing someone can do involving their websites is moving them from one hosting provider to another. It’s increasingly more difficult if your hosting was based on a control panel such as Cpanel, and try to migrate to a different kind of control panel or none at all. This article will show you how to migrate the two most important parts (files and database) from Cpanel to another control panel such as DirectAdmin.
My Nginx Configuration
I’m creating this page on popular request, as I’ve had to paste my configuration for people a number of times especially on IRC. Below is an example configuration of how kbeezie.com is setup with some comments.
Configuring SNI with NginX
Traditionally for every SSL certificate issued, you needed a separate and unique IP address. However if you compile OpenSSL and NginX with TLS SNI (Server Name Identification) support you can install multiple SSL certificates without having to bind a domain name to a specific IP address or require each certificate to have its own unique IP.
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.