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Nginx "ssl_stapling" ignored With LetsEncrypt Certbot (2025)

If you are seeing this error this month (May 2025) and have tried searching the web for a fix you will find that there will be no fix that keeps SSL Stapling enabled. LetsEncrypt no longer includes OCSP URLs. Here's how to update your configuration.

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.

Nginx Configuration Examples

Here are a number of Nginx configurations for common scenarios that should help make things easier to get started with. This page will grow as needed. Includes some sample configurations for Wordpress, Wordpress + W3TC, Drupal and NibbleBlog.

Nginx and Codeigniter The Easy Way

How to get Codeigniter running on NGinx the easy way.

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.
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