You can boost your site’s performance by letting visitors browsers know it should cache your static files. Nginx can be configured to set the “Expires” and the “max-age“ directive of the “Cache-Control” HTTP response headers for static files (eg. images, style sheets, javascript) it serves up to a date in the future. This allows browsers […]
If you have ever found yourself wondering what PHP packages are installed on a Debian or Ubuntu server you can run the following from the command line. dpkg –get-selections dave@darkmetal:~$ dpkg –get-selections | grep phplibapache2-mod-php5 installphp-pear installphp5-cli installphp5-common installphp5-curl installphp5-dev installphp5-gd installphp5-mcrypt installphp5-memcached installphp5-mysql installphp5-xdebug installphpmyadmin install In my example I am piping the output
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I recently had an issue with a user not being able to log into their FTP account. I have vsftpd set up to use TLS encryption. When using Filezilla to connect to vsftpd with explicit TLS you may see something similar to the following output: Status: Resolving address of www.example.comStatus: Connecting to 127.0.0.1:21…Status: Connection established,
Every now and then I find myself needing to create a MySQL database while on the command line. Often it is just as fast or faster than loading up another program or accessing phpMyAdmin in a browser. So, first things first, we need to connect to the database: mysql -u root -p MySQL will prompt
The Zend Framework library is based around the MVC (Model, View, Controller) and Front Controller design patterns. The Front Controller is the point of entry for all requests that are NOT being served up directly by your web server. Such requests include style sheets, javascript, images and other static files. Zend Framework implements the front
