http://www.razvan.ws docs, how to's and other tech stuff Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:06:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Slackware style init script for start/stop/restart nginx web server: #!/bin/sh # # /etc/rc.d/rc.nginx # # Start/stop/restart nginx web server. test_config() { set +e RES=`nginx -t 2>&1` if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then echo "Error in nginx configuration found, restart aborted!" echo $RES ... http://www.razvan.ws/slackware-style-init-script-for-nginx-web-server/ We all know that Apache is a great software and it cannot be replaced every time. Also, Apache shown great performance serving dynamic php content whether it's running mod_php or fastcgi. Boštjan Škufca made an excellent comparison between Apache + mod_php and Nginx + php-fpm. So, Apache is very good serving ... http://www.razvan.ws/using-nginx-as-a-reverse-proxy-for-apache/ While Apache is a great web server, it has a high memory footprint. If you don't need all the Apache features or if you have a slow/old/low memory machine Nginx (Engine X) might be perfect. The typical nginx configuration involves using spawn-fcgi from the LightTPD project to get nginx serving up ... http://www.razvan.ws/linux-slackware-13-nginx-php-fastcgi-using-php-fpm/ This tutorial assumes that you are already familiar with Slackware Linux and Apache2. Before you start, make sure you have a working httpd.conf of Apache2 because a detailed configuration is not included in this tutorial. Then, remove the installed packages of Apache2 and PHP using Slackware's pkgtool. Go to Apache website and ... http://www.razvan.ws/linux-slackware-apache2-php-fastcgi/