Apache web server access and error logs provide important information showing the activity being performed by the server and errors encountered in the process. Using command line tools to parse Apache web server log files is a quick way to monitor production server activity, and can also be used during development and testing and for … Read more
Centralizing Apache Logs By default, Apache stores all logs on the local disk. This works well for development environments and small deployments but can become unsustainable once you have more than one server. Not only is it frustrating having to open each log file on each server, but trying to trace requests across multiple servers … Read more
In this post I will go step by step through optimizing PHP and WordPress to reduce page load times and increase requests/second of your website. WordPress is used on over 42% of all websites on the global internet. Considering that there are over 1.1 billion websites this comes to over 460 million website using WordPress … Read more
Performance of PHP based application, either script based or web based is a factor of configuration of PHP, web server, hardware infrastructure, network topology and most important, the quality of written code. It does not matter if you are running WordPress or any other custom PHP application you will have to consider all those factors … Read more
Nginx is used as not only a web server but also as a reverse proxy with the ability to cache content. There are two types of proxy servers, forward and reverse. In this post, I will focus on setting up Nginx as a reverse proxy with caching content from back-end servers. What is a Reverse … Read more
Overview Jooby is a scalable fast micro web server framework that allows you to build microservices as well as full stack applications with backend service and a front-end build using any of the following template engines. Among the many Java/Kotlin based frameworks for web developments Jooby shines because of its simplicity and high performance. TechEmpower, … Read more
In this guide, I will discuss Nginx ngx_http_proxy and ngx_http_upstream modules, which provide the ability to proxy connections to backend application web servers and provide load-balancing capabilities. This proxying ability allows Nginx to pass requests to upstream webs servers for the final processing of a web request. The ability to proxy requests to single or … Read more
In this post, I will go into details of installing AWStats with Apache web server for Monitoring and web server log analysis. AWStats is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, FTP, or mail server statistics, graphically. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from the command line and shows … Read more
Apache Web Server power over 30 percent of all websites. I believe the share is likely higher when you consider servers hidden behind corporation firewalls. This is a long way from its initial release in 1995. Based on its widespread use the Apache server logs provide invaluable information in understanding not only the incoming traffic … Read more
Monitoring services for uptime and performance is a crucial part of any organization’s day-to-day operations. Essentially since its inception, Apache Web Server (Apache HTTPD) has been among the three most popular web servers on the internet. It has been providing critical hosting services to hundreds of millions of web sites commanding a share of over … Read more