Best file system for a busy webserver

2012-08-16 Thread Paul Schmehl
Does anyone have any opinions on which file system is best for a busy webserver (7 million hits/month)? Is anyone one system noticeably better than any other? Just curious. I'm getting ready to setup a new box running FreeBSD 9, and since I'm starting from scratch, I'm questioning all my

Re: Best file system for a busy webserver

2012-08-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Does anyone have any opinions on which file system is best for a busy webserver (7 million hits/month)? Is anyone one system noticeably better than any other? Use stock UFS, just configure it properly. most importantly noatime. Amount of cached data is more important than hit count. Unless

Re: Best file system for a busy webserver

2012-08-16 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:45:25 -0500 Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote: Does anyone have any opinions on which file system is best for a busy webserver (7 million hits/month)? Is anyone one system noticeably better than any other? That's an average of about 3 hits per

Re: Best file system for a busy webserver

2012-08-16 Thread Robert Bonomi
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:45:25 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com To: FreeBSD Questions List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Best file system for a busy webserver Does anyone have any opinions on which file system is best for a busy webserver (7 million hits/month

Re: Best file system for a busy webserver

2012-08-16 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On August 16, 2012 6:02:57 PM +0100 Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org wrote: On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:45:25 -0500 Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote: Does anyone have any opinions on which file system is best for a busy webserver (7 million hits/month)? Is anyone one system

Re: Best file system for a busy webserver

2012-08-16 Thread Robert Huff
Paul Schmehl writes: That's an average of about 3 hits per second. If it's static pages then pretty much anything will handle it easily (but please don't use FAT). If it's dynamic then the whole problem is more complex than a simple page rate. If that load is bursty it may make a

Re: Best file system for a busy webserver

2012-08-16 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
system is best for a busy webserver (7 million hits/month)? Is anyone one system noticeably better than any other? That's an average of about 3 hits per second. If it's static pages then pretty much anything will handle it easily (but please don't use FAT). If it's dynamic

Re: Best file system for a busy webserver

2012-08-16 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On August 16, 2012 9:42:30 PM +0100 Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org wrote: I don't even know where to begin. There's about 15G of data on the server. OK I would say there's no pressing reason to consider ZFS for this purpose. You'd save a bit of time in crash recovery with no

Re: Best file system for a busy webserver

2012-08-16 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 08/16/2012 01:16 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote: Does anyone have any opinions on which file system is best for a busy webserver (7 million hits/month)? Is anyone one system noticeably better than any other? With only 15G of data, I'd recommend

Re: Best file system for a busy webserver

2012-08-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
OK I would say there's no pressing reason to consider ZFS for this another ZFS fanatics. it is about performance. direction for a filesystem, at 15GB if performance ever becomes a problem a RAID1 of SSDs with UFS would make it fly probably into the hundreds of hits per second range.

Re: Best file system for a busy webserver

2012-08-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
the OCZ Vertex IIIs (About $1/G these days) wired into a *hardware* RAID controller setup to mirror them. This gives you blazing speed just like i would read some popular street PC newspaper. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Best file system for a busy webserver

2012-08-16 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.comwrote: Does anyone have any opinions on which file system is best for a busy webserver (7 million hits/month)? Is anyone one system noticeably better than any other? Just curious. I'm getting ready to setup a new box

Re: best way to bind webserver to port 80 without running as root

2012-01-04 Thread Grzegorz Blach
On 01/04/2012 11:10 AM, Dino Vliet wrote: Hi all, suddenly I'm facing this quest on freebsd 8. I need to bind my little webserver running aolserver to port 80. In the past I was always using port 8080 and had my router configured to forward requests on port 80 to the server on port 8080

Re: Opinion on using AMD Phenom II x6 1090t with Gigabyte 890BPA-UD3H and 8GB DDR-3 as a WebServer.

2011-06-30 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: Of course it depends on your apps, but unless you're doing some HUGE number of connections, or your apps are not good, this will be MORE than enough RAM and CPU. (...) Maybe turn this into a virtual host and make

Re: Opinion on using AMD Phenom II x6 1090t with Gigabyte 890BPA-UD3H and 8GB DDR-3 as a WebServer.

2011-06-30 Thread eculp
Quoting C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws: On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: Of course it depends on your apps, but unless you're doing some HUGE number of connections, or your apps are not good, this will be MORE than enough RAM and CPU. (...)

Re: Opinion on using AMD Phenom II x6 1090t with Gigabyte 890BPA-UD3H and 8GB DDR-3 as a WebServer.

2011-06-30 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 4:53 PM, eculp ec...@encontacto.net wrote: Quoting C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws: On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: Of course it depends on your apps, but unless you're doing some HUGE number of connections, or your apps are

Opinion on using AMD Phenom II x6 1090t with Gigabyte 890BPA-UD3H and 8GB DDR-3 as a WebServer.

2011-06-29 Thread eculp
I just saw this box that is being promoted as a gaming machine at a great price and am considering it as a web-server. In addition to having no information on the CPU as a server lack of comfort with 6 cores and memory 8GB of memory that I am having a problem with. I am not a gamer but I

Re: Opinion on using AMD Phenom II x6 1090t with Gigabyte 890BPA-UD3H and 8GB DDR-3 as a WebServer.

2011-06-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 07:31:05 -0500, ec...@encontacto.net wrote: In addition to having no information on the CPU as a server lack of comfort with 6 cores and memory 8GB of memory that I am having a problem with. I am not a gamer but I have always assumed that a gaming machine needs the

Re: Opinion on using AMD Phenom II x6 1090t with Gigabyte 890BPA-UD3H and 8GB DDR-3 as a WebServer.

2011-06-29 Thread Edwin L. Culp W.
on the distribution of memory for the 6 cores if there is such a thing. Is it advantageous to have a multiple of 6 when ordering memory? (12, 18, 24) As far as stability is concerned for a webserver, I don't see it as a major concern. I'm sure some of my older machines of the last 15 years were less stable even

RE: Opinion on using AMD Phenom II x6 1090t with Gigabyte 890BPA-UD3H and 8GB DDR-3 as a WebServer.

2011-06-29 Thread Gary Gatten
...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of eculp Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 7:31 AM To: freebsd-questions Subject: Opinion on using AMD Phenom II x6 1090t with Gigabyte 890BPA-UD3H and 8GB DDR-3 as a WebServer. I just saw this box that is being promoted as a gaming

Re: Opinion on using AMD Phenom II x6 1090t with Gigabyte 890BPA-UD3H and 8GB DDR-3 as a WebServer.

2011-06-29 Thread Edwin L. Culp W.
Of eculp Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 7:31 AM To: freebsd-questions Subject: Opinion on using AMD Phenom II x6 1090t with Gigabyte 890BPA-UD3H and 8GB DDR-3 as a WebServer. I just saw this box that is being promoted as a gaming machine at a great price and am considering it as a web-server

RE: Opinion on using AMD Phenom II x6 1090t with Gigabyte 890BPA-UD3H and 8GB DDR-3 as a WebServer.

2011-06-29 Thread Robert Huff
Gary Gatten writes: Yes, generally speaking more of something is always better, in fact our government seems to think more debt is better than less. However, if you're web apps only need xGB of RAM and y MIPS; what benefit is it to have n * x RAM and n * y MIPS? It is my

Re: Opinion on using AMD Phenom II x6 1090t with Gigabyte 890BPA-UD3H and 8GB DDR-3 as a WebServer.

2011-06-29 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:47:09 -0500, Edwin L. Culp W. wrote: The price difference between a minimal design and something like this usually not significant. So this is sounding more and more like a go. Allow me a short addition: Gaming machines usually put no emphasize on energy efficiency.

RE: Small webserver recommendations

2010-06-10 Thread peter harrison
Subject: Re: Small webserver recommendations There is a webserver bundled with a framework called web2py. www.web2py.org. You can run it as a user from BSD or Linux. -Nate Maier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Small webserver recommendations

2010-06-09 Thread Nathan Peet Maier
There is a webserver bundled with a framework called web2py. www.web2py.org. You can run it as a user from BSD or Linux. -Nate Maier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

RE: Small webserver recommendations

2010-06-07 Thread peter harrison
: Small webserver recommendations On Sun 2010-06-06 18:44:10 UTC+0100, peter harrison (four.harris...@googlemail.com) wrote: I'm looking for a small webserver to add to a nanobsd image, so preferably with few dependencies too. Needs to be able to run Perl cgi's as well. Anyone willing to make

Re: Small webserver recommendations

2010-06-07 Thread andrew clarke
On Sun 2010-06-06 18:44:10 UTC+0100, peter harrison (four.harris...@googlemail.com) wrote: I'm looking for a small webserver to add to a nanobsd image, so preferably with few dependencies too. Needs to be able to run Perl cgi's as well. Anyone willing to make a recommendation? thttpd? http

Re: Small webserver recommendations

2010-06-07 Thread Artifex Maximus
Hello! On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 7:44 PM, peter harrison four.harris...@googlemail.com wrote: I'm looking for a small webserver to add to a nanobsd image, so preferably with few dependencies too. Needs to be able to run Perl cgi's as well. Anyone willing to make a recommendation? nginx? http

Small webserver recommendations

2010-06-06 Thread peter harrison
Hello all, I'm looking for a small webserver to add to a nanobsd image, so preferably with few dependencies too. Needs to be able to run Perl cgi's as well. Anyone willing to make a recommendation? Thanks in advance, Peter. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Small webserver recommendations

2010-06-06 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 1:44 PM, peter harrison four.harris...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello all, I'm looking for a small webserver to add to a nanobsd image, so preferably with few dependencies too. Needs to be able to run Perl cgi's as well. If you are using Perl, might as well use any

Re: Small webserver recommendations

2010-06-06 Thread Eitan Adler
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 8:44 PM, peter harrison four.harris...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello all, I'm looking for a small webserver to add to a nanobsd image, so preferably with few dependencies too. Needs to be able to run Perl cgi's as well. Anyone willing to make a recommendation? lighttpd

RE: Small webserver recommendations

2010-06-06 Thread peter harrison
...@freebsd.org questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Small webserver recommendations On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 1:44 PM, peter harrison four.harris...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello all, I'm looking for a small webserver to add to a nanobsd image, so preferably with few dependencies too. Needs to be able to run

RE: Small webserver recommendations

2010-06-06 Thread peter harrison
: Re: Small webserver recommendations On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 8:44 PM, peter harrison four.harris...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello all, I'm looking for a small webserver to add to a nanobsd image, so preferably with few dependencies too. Needs to be able to run Perl cgi's as well. Anyone willing

Re: Small webserver recommendations

2010-06-06 Thread Alejandro Imass
Perldroid ;-) !!! Alex Peter. -Original Message- From: Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org Sent: 06 June 2010 19:58 To: peter harrison four.harris...@googlemail.com Cc: questi...@freebsd.org questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Small webserver recommendations On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 1

Re: webserver and natd

2009-09-03 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Razvan Cristea cristea.raz...@yahoo.comwrote: Hello, i have a webserver useing freebsd 7.2 and i user the same server to route internet to a local network. the internet on the local network is working fine but the sites from the webserver are loading verry

Re: webserver and natd

2009-09-03 Thread Razvan Cristea
odhia...@gmail.com wrote: From: Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com Subject: Re: webserver and natd To: Razvan Cristea cristea.raz...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thursday, September 3, 2009, 1:07 PM On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Razvan Cristea cristea.raz...@yahoo.com

webserver and natd

2009-09-01 Thread Razvan Cristea
Hello,   i have a webserver useing freebsd 7.2 and i user the same server to route internet to a local network. the internet on the local network is working fine but the sites from the webserver are loading verry slow.   i fave this configuration in rc.conf:   firewall_enable=YES firewall_type

Re: webserver and natd

2009-09-01 Thread Steve Bertrand
Razvan Cristea wrote: Hello, i have a webserver useing freebsd 7.2 and i user the same server to route internet to a local network. the internet on the local network is working fine but the sites from the webserver are loading verry slow. i fave this configuration in rc.conf

Re: webserver and natd

2009-09-01 Thread Steve Bertrand
Razvan Cristea wrote: Razvan Cristea wrote: Hello, i have a webserver useing freebsd 7.2 and i user the same server to route internet to a local network. the internet on the local network is working fine but the sites from the webserver are loading verry

Re: Information on Setting up a Jailed Webserver

2009-08-29 Thread krad
2009/8/28 Ruben de Groot mai...@bzerk.org On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:28:26PM -0400, APseudoUtopia typed: Two more questions then I should be ready to go with my jail(s). In order to minimize the HDD space of the jail, can I add things in my src.conf such as WITHOUT_BOOT, WITHOUT_ACPI,

Re: Information on Setting up a Jailed Webserver

2009-08-28 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:28:26PM -0400, APseudoUtopia typed: Two more questions then I should be ready to go with my jail(s). In order to minimize the HDD space of the jail, can I add things in my src.conf such as WITHOUT_BOOT, WITHOUT_ACPI, WITHOUT_PF? Yes you can. Another option is to

Re: Information on Setting up a Jailed Webserver

2009-08-27 Thread APseudoUtopia
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Erich Dollanskyer...@apsara.com.sg wrote: Hi, On 27 August 2009 am 11:10:37 Adam Vande More wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:59 PM, APseudoUtopia apseudouto...@gmail.comwrote: Also, how memory-intensive is a jail? Very light when compared to other

Re: Information on Setting up a Jailed Webserver

2009-08-27 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:13 AM, APseudoUtopia apseudouto...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Erich Dollanskyer...@apsara.com.sg wrote: Hi, On 27 August 2009 am 11:10:37 Adam Vande More wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:59 PM, APseudoUtopia

Re: Information on Setting up a Jailed Webserver

2009-08-27 Thread APseudoUtopia
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Adam Vande Moreamvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:13 AM, APseudoUtopia apseudouto...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Erich Dollanskyer...@apsara.com.sg wrote: Hi, On 27 August 2009 am 11:10:37 Adam Vande More

Re: Information on Setting up a Jailed Webserver

2009-08-27 Thread Albert Shih
Le 26/08/2009 à 22:59:34-0400, APseudoUtopia a écrit Hello, I have a small site which runs PostgreSQL, Nginx, and PHP. I'm looking into running nginx inside a jailed host on my server for security reasons (eg, if there is a hole in a php script). The website root is actually a working

Information on Setting up a Jailed Webserver

2009-08-26 Thread APseudoUtopia
Hello, I have a small site which runs PostgreSQL, Nginx, and PHP. I'm looking into running nginx inside a jailed host on my server for security reasons (eg, if there is a hole in a php script). The website root is actually a working copy of my subversion repository. I have svnserve running

Re: Information on Setting up a Jailed Webserver

2009-08-26 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:59 PM, APseudoUtopia apseudouto...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, I have a small site which runs PostgreSQL, Nginx, and PHP. I'm looking into running nginx inside a jailed host on my server for security reasons (eg, if there is a hole in a php script). The website root is

Re: Information on Setting up a Jailed Webserver

2009-08-26 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 27 August 2009 am 11:10:37 Adam Vande More wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:59 PM, APseudoUtopia apseudouto...@gmail.comwrote: Also, how memory-intensive is a jail? Very light when compared to other virtualization methods. jails share the kernel but not the world. So, there will

Re: Information on Setting up a Jailed Webserver

2009-08-26 Thread Thomas Wahyudi
may be it will better to imagine that jail is a different computer, so if your jail need connection to main host it will connect like other computer that not running in jail. you can do file:// from main host to jail but not from jail to main host. As far I know jail is a method so memory

Re: Should DNS be on same server as webserver?

2009-07-14 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:46:43AM -0400, Steve Bertrand typed: John Almberg wrote: On Jul 13, 2009, at 6:27 PM, Karl Vogel wrote: You can fix the security problems by dumping Bind and using djbdns. What security problems? This one ? :) http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2812 I

Re: Should DNS be on same server as webserver?

2009-07-14 Thread Peter Boosten
Ruben de Groot wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:46:43AM -0400, Steve Bertrand typed: John Almberg wrote: On Jul 13, 2009, at 6:27 PM, Karl Vogel wrote: You can fix the security problems by dumping Bind and using djbdns. What security problems? This one ? :)

Re: Should DNS be on same server as webserver?

2009-07-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
Peter Boosten wrote: Ruben de Groot wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:46:43AM -0400, Steve Bertrand typed: John Almberg wrote: On Jul 13, 2009, at 6:27 PM, Karl Vogel wrote: You can fix the security problems by dumping Bind and using djbdns. What security problems? This one ? :)

Re: Should DNS be on same server as webserver?

2009-07-14 Thread Peter Boosten
Steve Bertrand wrote: I like whatever works in regards to the situation I'm facing ;) And that's the best possible reason one could have! ;-) Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Should DNS be on same server as webserver?

2009-07-14 Thread Karl Vogel
On Jul 13, 2009, at 6:27 PM, Karl Vogel wrote: K You can fix the security problems by dumping Bind and using djbdns. On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:16:24 +0200, Ruben de Groot replied: R What security problems? This one ? :) R http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2812 When BIND offers (and makes good

Re: Should DNS be on same server as webserver?

2009-07-14 Thread Jon Radel
Karl Vogel wrote: On Jul 13, 2009, at 6:27 PM, Karl Vogel wrote: K You can fix the security problems by dumping Bind and using djbdns. On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:16:24 +0200, Ruben de Groot replied: R What security problems? This one ? :) R http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2812 When BIND

Re: Should DNS be on same server as webserver?

2009-07-14 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 13 July 2009 14:27:46 Karl Vogel wrote: It's very easy to set up a caching nameserver without using all the memory on your system. It's much easier to turn your HIGH-performance webserver into a slug, by running stuff you don't need on the same machine. Memory unused

Should DNS be on same server as webserver?

2009-07-13 Thread John Almberg
The other day, a FreeBSD 'expert' told me that it is important to have the DNS server for a domain on the same server as the domain's web server. Supposedly, this saves doing tons of DNS look ups over the network. Instead, they are done locally. This makes sense to me, but I wonder if the

Re: Should DNS be on same server as webserver?

2009-07-13 Thread Bill Moran
In response to John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com: The other day, a FreeBSD 'expert' told me that it is important to have the DNS server for a domain on the same server as the domain's web server. Supposedly, this saves doing tons of DNS look ups over the network. Instead, they are done

Re: Should DNS be on same server as webserver?

2009-07-13 Thread Jon Radel
John Almberg wrote: The other day, a FreeBSD 'expert' told me that it is important to have the DNS server for a domain on the same server as the domain's web server. Supposedly, this saves doing tons of DNS look ups over the network. Instead, they are done locally. This makes sense to me,

Re: Should DNS be on same server as webserver?

2009-07-13 Thread Mikel King
On Jul 13, 2009, at 12:36 PM, John Almberg wrote: The other day, a FreeBSD 'expert' told me that it is important to have the DNS server for a domain on the same server as the domain's web server. Supposedly, this saves doing tons of DNS look ups over the network. Instead, they are done

Re: Should DNS be on same server as webserver?

2009-07-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:36:42PM -0400, John Almberg wrote: The other day, a FreeBSD 'expert' told me that it is important to have the DNS server for a domain on the same server as the domain's web server. Supposedly, this saves doing tons of DNS look ups over the network. Instead,

Re: Should DNS be on same server as webserver?

2009-07-13 Thread Mel Flynn
locally. Bogus. A high-performance webserver should not be doing DNS lookups, other then application driven ones, like verification of email domains upon registration. If having hostnames in the live logs is mandatory by some weird company policy or the webserver does not provide a configuration

Re: Should DNS be on same server as webserver?

2009-07-13 Thread John Almberg
over the network. Instead, they are done locally. Bogus. A high-performance webserver should not be doing DNS lookups, other then application driven ones, like verification of email domains upon registration. If having hostnames in the live logs is mandatory by some weird company policy

Re: Should DNS be on same server as webserver?

2009-07-13 Thread Karl Vogel
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:03:24 -0400, Jon Radel j...@radel.com said: J Apache and Bind have both had their security issues over the years, and J there's something to be said for running them on different servers to J reduce both the all eggs in one basket factor and the ease of J spreading an

Re: Should DNS be on same server as webserver?

2009-07-13 Thread John Almberg
On Jul 13, 2009, at 6:27 PM, Karl Vogel wrote: On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:03:24 -0400, Jon Radel j...@radel.com said: J Apache and Bind have both had their security issues over the years, and J there's something to be said for running them on different servers to J reduce both the all eggs

Re: Should DNS be on same server as webserver?

2009-07-13 Thread Steve Bertrand
John Almberg wrote: On Jul 13, 2009, at 6:27 PM, Karl Vogel wrote: On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:03:24 -0400, Jon Radel j...@radel.com said: J Apache and Bind have both had their security issues over the years, and J there's something to be said for running them on different servers to J

Re: Should DNS be on same server as webserver?

2009-07-13 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: [...snip...] There is a single file in /etc/dnscache/root/ip, named 127.0.0.1 If you want this cache to serve internal /24 network queries: % touch /etc/dnscache/root/ip/192.168.0 Need to add some clarification: Adding the new empty file permits queries from the IP

Re: lightweight webserver that can run php

2009-04-19 Thread Alexandre Biancalana
On 4/18/09, APseudoUtopia apseudouto...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 2:19 AM, Andrew a...@awdcomp.net wrote: ... If you choose to run php via FastCGI, check out PHP-FPM. It's a patch that greatly speeds up php's FastCGI performance. It honestly does help significantly. There's

Re: lightweight webserver that can run php

2009-04-19 Thread oleg
It says that distro available at php.net has a number of known problems related to using FastCGI SAPI in production servers. Also, it argues why using FastCGI SAPI along with php-fpm is a good idea. php-fpm addresses the following problems: 1. php daemonization 2. Process managing. Smooth php

lightweight webserver that can run php

2009-04-18 Thread Andrew
Hi All, Does anyone have any suggestions for a lightweight webserver that will run php? Apache is too bulky for what I need and thttpd won't allow me to run php. TIA Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: lightweight webserver that can run php

2009-04-18 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 18 April 2009 08:19:46 Andrew wrote: Hi All, Does anyone have any suggestions for a lightweight webserver that will run php? Apache is too bulky for what I need and thttpd won't allow me to run php. nginx + php over cgi. lighttpd seems popular too, personally find nginx more

Re: lightweight webserver that can run php

2009-04-18 Thread Michael Lednev
Andrew пишет: Hi All, Does anyone have any suggestions for a lightweight webserver that will run php? Apache is too bulky for what I need and thttpd won't allow me to run php. www/lighttpd and www/nginx(-devel) are definitely the most common choice

Re: lightweight webserver that can run php

2009-04-18 Thread Rodrigo Gonzalez
for a lightweight webserver that will run php? Apache is too bulky for what I need and thttpd won't allow me to run php. TIA Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: lightweight webserver that can run php

2009-04-18 Thread Mikel King
Most light weight webservers like nginx and lighttpd only run PHP as a cgi mod. Cheers, m! On Apr 18, 2009, at 2:19, Andrew a...@awdcomp.net wrote: Hi All, Does anyone have any suggestions for a lightweight webserver that will run php? Apache is too bulky for what I need and thttpd won't

Re: lightweight webserver that can run php

2009-04-18 Thread Rodrigo Gonzalez
and lighttpd only run PHP as a cgi mod. Cheers, m! On Apr 18, 2009, at 2:19, Andrew a...@awdcomp.net wrote: Hi All, Does anyone have any suggestions for a lightweight webserver that will run php? Apache is too bulky for what I need and thttpd won't allow me to run php. TIA Andrew

Re: lightweight webserver that can run php

2009-04-18 Thread cpghost
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 09:56:09AM -0400, Mikel King wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions for a lightweight webserver that will run php? Most light weight webservers like nginx and lighttpd only run PHP as a cgi mod. With lighttpd, you can do both CGI and FastCGI: http

Re: lightweight webserver that can run php

2009-04-18 Thread Rodrigo Gonzalez
You are right, thanks for the information On 4/18/09, cpghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 09:56:09AM -0400, Mikel King wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions for a lightweight webserver that will run php? Most light weight webservers like nginx and lighttpd only run

Re: lightweight webserver that can run php

2009-04-18 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 18 April 2009 16:34:52 Rodrigo Gonzalez wrote: As a fastcgi not cgi, there is a differenceimportant one. for cgi request a new php process is started for a request. fastcgi is php listening for network requests and process can be reused. And the more important difference with

Re: lightweight webserver that can run php

2009-04-18 Thread APseudoUtopia
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 2:19 AM, Andrew a...@awdcomp.net wrote: Hi All, Does anyone have any suggestions for a lightweight webserver that will run php? Apache is too bulky for what I need and thttpd won't allow me to run php. TIA Andrew If you choose to run php via FastCGI, check out PHP

Any BSDians hands on with apache-2.2 webserver,

2009-03-05 Thread dhaneshk k
.htpasswd Failure .. htpasswd recreation also not working I added a Location / for restricting access to my web site URL. I used Basic Authentication module.. I created #htpasswd -c .htpasswd test password : test and restarted apache

make pdf from webpage on webserver (no x11)

2009-01-04 Thread B. Cook
Trying to figure out how to print a webpage on the server, without a gui.. On the local test webserver that we have we are trying to figure out how we can from php (or anything else) print a webpage to a pdf.. Anyone have a clue as to how to do this? Or is this some major php programming

Re: make pdf from webpage on webserver (no x11)

2009-01-04 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 07:35:03PM -0500, B. Cook wrote: Trying to figure out how to print a webpage on the server, without a gui.. On the local test webserver that we have we are trying to figure out how we can from php (or anything else) print a webpage to a pdf.. Anyone have a clue

Images-only webserver, lighttpd vs NginX

2008-11-03 Thread Francis Dubé
Hi everyone, I posted last week about my webserver hitting the kernel's max process allowed (error : collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC). As a part of the solution, I decided to build a jail with a light webserver dedicated to images requests, the biggest part

Re: Images-only webserver, lighttpd vs NginX

2008-11-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
Francis Dubé wrote: As a part of the solution, I decided to build a jail with a light webserver dedicated to images requests, the biggest part of the requests the server have to process. Most of the websites hosted on the server have approximately 200 small images with a size between 1k

Re: Images-only webserver, lighttpd vs NginX

2008-11-03 Thread Paul A. Procacci
Francis Dubé wrote: Hi everyone, I posted last week about my webserver hitting the kernel's max process allowed (error : collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC). As a part of the solution, I decided to build a jail with a light webserver dedicated to images requests

Re: Images-only webserver, lighttpd vs NginX

2008-11-03 Thread Paul A. Procacci
Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: They are both good static content servers. You can easily max out a GiGe link using either. We use lighttpd more extensively than nginx, however we do use both. Quite frankly, it's truthfully up to you. Performance wise, they are on par with once another. ~Paul

Re: Images-only webserver, lighttpd vs NginX

2008-11-03 Thread Dan
Matthew Seaman([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.11.03 19:59:56 +: Francis Dub? wrote: Which one do you suggest and why ? nginx. Lighttpd has remote security holes once in a while. nginx has better security design and is more modular and faster. It happens to also be feature-rich, which is not easy

Re: Images-only webserver, lighttpd vs NginX

2008-11-03 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
They are both good static content servers. You can easily max out a GiGe link using either. We use lighttpd more extensively than nginx, however we do use both. Quite frankly, it's truthfully up to you. Performance wise, they are on par with once another. ~Paul at the risk of being

Re: Run script as root from WebServer

2008-09-23 Thread Saša Stupar
Hi, I'm using mod_python3 and apache22 to create some scripts and access them through a web interface. The problem is that some of these scripts deal with configuration files and some other tasks that require root privileges. In the past, I've solved this issue by using sudo and

Re: Run script as root from WebServer

2008-09-23 Thread Matias Surdi
) If the configuration files allow 'includes', then include a file that is writeable by the webuser. This will additionally allow you to restrict what the webserver can change in the config of this application. Note, that configuration files that are modifyable by root only, often are for a reason, so this does

Run script as root from WebServer

2008-09-22 Thread Matias Surdi
Hi, I'm using mod_python3 and apache22 to create some scripts and access them through a web interface. The problem is that some of these scripts deal with configuration files and some other tasks that require root privileges. In the past, I've solved this issue by using sudo and allowing

Re: Run script as root from WebServer

2008-09-22 Thread Christopher Cowart
Matias Surdi wrote: I'm using mod_python3 and apache22 to create some scripts and access them through a web interface. The problem is that some of these scripts deal with configuration files and some other tasks that require root privileges. In the past, I've solved this issue by using

Re: Run script as root from WebServer

2008-09-22 Thread Mel
that is writeable by the webuser. This will additionally allow you to restrict what the webserver can change in the config of this application. Note, that configuration files that are modifyable by root only, often are for a reason, so this does not improve the security of the service being configured

Re: Run script as root from WebServer

2008-09-22 Thread Bill Campbell
', then include a file that is writeable by the webuser. This will additionally allow you to restrict what the webserver can change in the config of this application. Note, that configuration files that are modifyable by root only, often are for a reason, so this does not improve the security

Re: How to test the uptime of a webserver?

2008-09-04 Thread Redd Vinylene
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Redd Vinylene wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 2:22 AM, Moises Castellanos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Redd Vinylene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got this dedicated server which is

Re: How to test the uptime of a webserver?

2008-09-04 Thread Redd Vinylene
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Redd Vinylene [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Redd Vinylene wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 2:22 AM, Moises Castellanos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Redd

Re: How to test the uptime of a webserver?

2008-09-04 Thread Redd Vinylene
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Redd Vinylene [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Redd Vinylene [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Redd Vinylene wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 2:22 AM, Moises Castellanos

Re: How to test the uptime of a webserver?

2008-08-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
Redd Vinylene wrote: Hello hello! I got this dedicated server which is exposed to DDoS attacks quite frequently. Say I need to host a website on it, is there any way of telling how often it is actually online (to the rest of the world)? Maybe make some sort of ping script from a remote server?

Re: How to test the uptime of a webserver?

2008-08-31 Thread Redd Vinylene
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 2:22 AM, Moises Castellanos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Redd Vinylene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello hello! I got this dedicated server which is exposed to DDoS attacks quite frequently. Say I need to host a website on it, is there any

Re: How to test the uptime of a webserver?

2008-08-31 Thread Andrew D
Redd Vinylene wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 2:22 AM, Moises Castellanos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Redd Vinylene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello hello! I got this dedicated server which is exposed to DDoS attacks quite frequently. Say I need to host a website

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