Tag Archives: Webserver

Gentoo ebuild: Nginx With Support For Upstream Fair Proxy Load Balancer

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Direktion

Nginx is a powerful web server and therefore our choice. Unfortunately, the Gentoo ebuild is missing one essential extension: a load balancer that is querying the servers not via round robin but by their current load. Therefore, we had to extend the … Continue reading →

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from Squirrel to Crystal

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Marcus Pauli

For years, we were using Squirrelmail as the default web mail client. Well, it would be a lie to say its design looks good but it offers a lot of functionality that nearly compensates the design deficits. The really basic functionalities … Continue reading →

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find out if your Apache is really serving the right hosts

Posted on November 19, 2009 by Marcus Pauli

From time to time it can happen that websites that used to be on your webservers are being moved by your clients without notifying you. Therefore, you will have to search for «zombie websites». I have the following setup: There … Continue reading →

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creating apache vhosts with style

Posted on August 28, 2008 by Marcus Pauli

We decided to have a reverse domain name structure that conatains (beside the htdocs) all vhost-related information like logs, stats and config. The reverse structure is neccessary to get an quick overview not about the subdomains but the domains. Additionally, … Continue reading →

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