PHP5 with FastCGI and suexec in Debian
Wanna speed up those php apps, while reducing your server’s memory footprint, and improve your security model all at once? Of course you do! All you have to do, is ditch the defaults and run PHP5 through fastcgi and suexec on Apache2. This is a fairly straightforward task, but there are several gotchas. This setup [...]
Multi-staging capistrano deployment with rvm, git and passenger
Here is an object lesson in the old philosophy of simple, convenient tools that focus on doing one thing, and one thing well, and also combine and inter-operate well with other tools, to create one monster flying space robot with laserbeam eyes that crushes everything. Here is what we want to do in a typical [...]
installing mod_security on CentOS 5
Installation of mod_security from source is very easy, but did not quite go according to the published documentation on CentOS 5. Following is a brief detail on steps required.
