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.
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
OS X Quick Tips: Windows 7 x64 on a Macbook
I have been a mac user off and on since 2002; It wasn’t until early 2008 that I moved strictly to using a mac for my everyday affairs. I thought it would be a nice gesture to once in a while throw up quick Macintosh related tips, especially as it pertains to my early 2008 13.3″ Macbook. For my first tip, how to get Bootcamp working on Windows 7×64.
Releasing IP Addresses in WHM/Cpanel
If you are hosted with a WHM/Cpanel based server or VPS, you may have had some difficulties trying to get an alternate webserver such as Nginx or Lighttpd installed especially if you wanted to use the default port 80. This article shows you how you can release extra IP addresses to be used by those services without conflicting with Apache.
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.