Month: November 2013

CentOS Install Postgres 9.3

Postgresql is a great SQL database with lots of great features that you can install for free with just a few quick tasks.  First, we need to get the yum repo from postgresql website, use yum to install it and…

Apache File Cache Module

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If you don’t have a CDN and would like to improve the performance of some of your webpages, you can easily do it using Apache File Cache Module.  Apache’s file cache module allows you to specify specific images and files…

Monitor Apache Usage

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Get Detailed Performance Information from Apache You may be looking for a microscope into your Apache httpd service to see how many users you have using it, get performance information, and see the current individual Apache httpd processes and what…

Monitor Apache Processes

Alert Yourself of Cyber Attacks Ok, this article will not alert you to all cyber attacks, but I wrote this script to help me identify huge changes in traffic to my websites and while it isn’t perfect, it has done…

Resolve Passive FTP Data Port Problems

Configure Passive FTP Server with VSFTP Firewalls attempting to protect their workstation clients behind them make it nearly impossible to use active FTP for transferring files because the firewall will not allow the server to initiate the data port to…

Configure Apache Access_Log Format

Configure Apache Access_Log Format

The Apache access log is one of the most important files that you can use to create reports on your visitor’s behavior to your website.  I often use Awstats (See:  http://awstats.sourceforge.net/ ) and other reports on my Apache access_log files. …