In this extremely simply tutorial I’m going to show, how you can deploy basic LAMP stack on EC2 instance. Instruction are pretty basic, without extra comments. You can just copy and paste command to get working stack in lest then 15 minutes.
What you can learn from it? How to install Apache and PHP, how to enable and run XCache accelerator, and how to run HTTPS on your server, with purchasing SSL certificate.
Gearman provides a generic application framework to farm out work to other machines or processes that are better suited to do the work.
This solution is truly multiplatform, so we have Client API and Wordkres in multiple languages like Shell, Perl, NodeJS any couple of others (PHP!)
Small 2019 update – Please check out this library – github.com/maxmind/MaxMind-DB-Reader-php . It’s a straight replacement of PHP module.
GeoIP from PECL is powerful extension used to determine geographical locations of IP addresses and domain names. This is useful if you want to set a language or redirection based on location of your visitor. Check out the PHP docs for a full list of GeoIP functions .
As much as I love lighttpd sometimes I can’t avoid Apache . For me – “the best” thing in lighttpd is support for keeping vhost names in MySQL database. I don’t have to use any config files, I can just put record into MySQL database with virtual host server name, path to document root and it’s done. But – I can do the same witch Apache! How? With third party modules, below you can find short tutorial “how to”.
Recently I stuck with WordPress installation which was unable to send emails using build in wp_mail function.
After investigation tail -f /var/log/messages I founded a pleasant line of code with really nice explanation:
sendmail: fatal: chdir /var/spool/postfix: Permission denied
In theory this should be a problem for sysadmin, but – I wanted to find faster solution.
After short adventure with Google I found a clue:
/usr/sbin/getsebool httpd_can_sendmail
My result was obvious:
