Most of my domains are registered with Namecheap, and powered by Nginx. The site you are viewing now is one such example. Currently with Namecheap, domain registrations, hosting, transfers and WhoIS protection come with a free PositiveSSL subscription. This section will show you how to generate a certificate request with OpenSSL and how to install the provided certificate into Nginx.
Category: Webservers
Handling wildcard subdomains with PHP
Subdomains can be a very handy way to make your urls more friendly looking. They can also be incredibly useful for membership driven websites to allow members to have their own custom subdomain. But how do make manage dynamic subdomains with PHP? This article shows you how.
Nginx and Django
In a previous guide I showed how to use Passenger (aka mod_rails) to work with Python (WSGI) scripts. While this proved effective for simple wsgi applications, a framework such as Django required a bit more love. This guide will walk you through getting Django to work with Nginx and Passenger.