NGINX: easily debug PHP applications
by Danila Vershinin, August 7, 2018
It is essential to run PHP applications with production settings. But if there’s an issue that cannot be reproduced in a staging environment, you will want a quick way to enable debug settings at live. NGINX is very flexible in a way that it allows to make your PHP configuration “dynamic”. Let’s configure PHP debug […]
Read More...Dissecting HTTPS redirect requirements of HSTS
by Danila Vershinin, August 5, 2018
Understanding the implications of HSTS header on the HTTP canonical redirects.
Read More...NGINX Amplify – MySQL Monitoring in CentOS 6
by Danila Vershinin, August 4, 2018
MySQL monitoring in CentOS 6 using NGINX Amplify agent
Read More...Modern approaches to secure websites in 2018
by Danila Vershinin, August 3, 2018
Some of the things you really want to take care about to secure your website.
Read More...Deciphering the slow web tech behind Philippines’ largest mobile networks
by Danila Vershinin, July 19, 2018
Find out how Philippines’ largest Internet companies, Globe and Smart, neglect performance and security with nothing but HTTP/1.1 and Gzip compression and custom DNS nameservers.
Read More...RPM Building Gotchas
by Danila Vershinin, July 14, 2018
Here’s my small guide on some issues, solutions, and best practices for building CentOS/RHEL RPMs. Versioning module of a program NGINX modules have to be rebuilt for specific versions of NGINX. This means that an NGINX module package essentially versions based on two components: The version of NGINX itself The version of the module (unless […]
Read More...How to use multiple real IP headers with nginx
by Danila Vershinin, July 10, 2018
How to pass real visitor IPs in nginx from two different cloud services.
Read More...Proxy requests to any remote server in nginx
by Danila Vershinin, July 8, 2018
Display information from other websites on your own, with nginx proxying.
Read More...Tuning proxy_buffer_size in NGINX
by Danila Vershinin, July 7, 2018
Make your NGINX more memory efficient and fix that “upstream sent too big header while reading response header from upstream” error.
Read More...Magento 2 Security Checklist
by Danila Vershinin, June 24, 2018
When you prepare to launch your Magento 2 website, security is one of the primary areas of concern. Whether you plan to accept credit card data directly on your website, or on a payment provider’s pages – you are required to achieve PCI compliance. Otherwise, you’ll find your business at risk of being banned from […]
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