Project Uptime : Progress Report 6 : Tweaking Varnish
The server has held up pretty well, since the installation of varnish. Based on this wiki post, I added the following to /etc/varnish/default.vcl [code] <pre> #...
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Using Apache mod_rewrite for enhancing your application security
For my own notes.. very nice post on perishablepress.com regarding using the different capabilities of mod_rewrite to secure your website (application) http://perishablepress.com/eight-ways-to-blacklist-with-apaches-mod_rewrite/
HOW TO : Redirect web traffic based on URL patterns in Apache
Apache configuration to redirect traffic to a particular URL based on the pattern in the URL (AKA URI). In this particular example, I want to redirect...
HOW TO : Configure Jboss to send log messages to syslog
Jboss uses the log4j framework for providing logging services. log4j is a very flexible framework and can do a lot of things. One of the features...
Project Uptime : Progress Report 5 : Getting ready for Reddit and Hacker News
A very timely post on Hacker News by Ewan Leith about configuring a low end server to take ~11million hits/per month gave me some more ideas...
HOW TO : Perform OCR on PDF files for free
I had to convert a scanned PDF file into an editable document recently. You can do this using OCR and there is a ton of software...