I’ve been configuring Apache httpd for over a decade, from a single personal web server to web farms running thousands of vhosts. In most of the “real” environments I’ve worked in, we’ve had some variation of production, stage/test/QA and development hosts; and usually some method …

Recently I was working on a code release on a site running PHP on Apache httpd, and using memcached. Without getting into specifics, we had a number of issues that were both Apache and memcached problems, and little visibility into them as it was running on an older server without …

There are a few unfortunate places where I have an Apache httpd server serving multiple vhosts, some behind a F5 BigIp load balancer and some with direct traffic. For sites behind the LB, the remote IP/host will always show up as the LB’s IP/host, not that of …

As mentioned in one of my recent posts, I occasionally have to setup catchall pages in Apache. The general idea is usually that I either want a vhost that serves one page for any conceivable request, or that I moved something and want to alert the visitor, but provide a …

Tonight, more or less on a whim, I moved my blog from my older (dual 1GHz Pentium III Coppermine, 1GB RAM, 10k RPM SCSI disks, Compaq Proliant DL360 G1, OpenSuSE 10.2 32-bit) web server to my newer one (dual 1.4GHz Pentium III, 2GB RAM, 10k RPM SCSI disks …

Here’s a little tidbit that I never knew until I had an Apache2 name-based virtual host problem: httpd -S lists the vhosts that are being served by Apache, and how they were parsed from the config files.

The output on one of my servers looks something like:

[root@web2 …

According to the latest (June 2009) NetCraft web server survey, the Free/Open Source Apache web server is now hosting 50.46% of all active web sites surveyed (about 38 Million). Microsoft’s IIS server is at 28.05% (or about 29 Million) - a 7.64% decline from IIS’s …

Found this from a month and a half ago, waiting as a draft:

So, I mostly finished the WordPress installation. I got everything for WordPress up and running, tested my Blogger URL redirection script and then switched over my subdomain redirection.

The blogger redirection takes two parts, but is in …