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Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 12

Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed
for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can
install Lighttpd on a Fedora 12 server with PHP5 support (through
FastCGI) and MySQL support.


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How To Set Up WebDAV With Lighttpd On OpenSUSE 11.2

This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with lighttpd on an OpenSUSE 11.2 server. WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning
and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allow users to
directly edit files on the lighttpd server so that they do not need to
be downloaded/uploaded via FTP. Of course, WebDAV can also be used to
upload and download files.


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Build Your Own Video Community With Lighttpd And FlowPlayer (Debian Lenny)

This article shows how you can build your own video community using lighttpd with its mod_flv_streaming module (for streaming .flv videos, the format used by most major video communities such as YouTube) and its mod_secdownload module (for preventing hotlinking of the videos) on Debian Lenny. I will use FlowPlayer as the video player, a free Flash video player with support for lighttpd’s mod_flv_streaming module. I will also show how you can encode videos (.mp4 .mov .mpg .3gp .mpeg .wmv .avi) to the FLV format supported by Adobe Flash.


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How To Set Up WebDAV With Lighttpd On Ubuntu 9.10

This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with lighttpd on an Ubuntu 9.10 server. WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning
and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allow users to
directly edit files on the lighttpd server so that they do not need to
be downloaded/uploaded via FTP. Of course, WebDAV can also be used to
upload and download files.


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Nginx is a lightweight, high performance web server/reverse proxy and e-mail (IMAP/POP3) proxy. It runs on UNIX, GNU/Linux, BSD variants, Mac OS X, Solaris, and Microsoft Windows. According to Netcraft, 6% of all domains on the Internet use nginx webserver. Nginx is one of a handful of servers written to address the C10K problem. Unlike traditional servers, Nginx doesn’t rely on threads to handle requests. Instead it uses a much more scalable event-driven (asynchronous) architecture. Nginx powers several high traffic web sites, such as WordPress, Hulu, Github, and SourceForge. This page collects hints how to improve the security of nginx web servers running on Linux or UNIX like operating systems.Read more: Top 20 Nginx WebServer Best Security PracticesCopyright © nixCraft. All Rights Reserved.

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Today, a not so surprising news showed up in my RSS feeds. It’s from PCA, an update tool I use for Solaris (because the tools from Sun are useless).
Attention: The patch policy has silently been changed by Oracle quite severely. The new strategy, which is also documented in Software Update Entitlement Policy for Solaris, enforces the requirement of a support contract to download any patch.
Unlike before, even security patches are not available for free anymore.
Until recently, Solaris 10 was free to use and Sun provided security patches for free as well; if you wanted further support you had to pay. It’s a widely used economic model in the open source world and has the great advantage of “hooking” up small companies to your products by still making them usable in a production environment.
At the company I’m working at, that’s exactly what happened with MySQL: we could use it for free to see if it fitted our needs and when the time came for us to need support, we paid for support. Everyone wins.
Now Oracle has pretty much cut every small Solaris user from using it in a production environment, to me it looks like they don’t even want to care about them. Solaris is still used in a lot of big corporations who pay a lot of money for support, but I wonder how long this will last…Just for fun I’m pasting some phrases from Oracle’s documentation:

A separate Sun support contract is required for every system to which you apply Solaris Software Updates, including test and development systems.
If your support contract lapses, you loose the right to use most Solaris OS patches and you must remove them from all systems.

Remove patches from a system, is this a joke? Did the guys who decided that already work in IT? Yeah great Oracle, that’s REALLY a good way to treat your future customers. Now you can be sure that I will try to replace every Solaris I see with a Linux box.
It’s sad for Solaris, the technology behind the OS is good but due to bad management decisions it’s getting less and less market-share. I feel sorry for the few passionate people behind Open Solaris.
Some may argue that RHEL is also a paid OS, but at least it’s clear from the beginning and Red Hat donesn’t screw their customers with dodgy moves like that in the middle of a product life-cycle.  And you still have CentOS if you don’t want support. What Oracle just did is a hold-up against the small Solaris users and I’m really angry at them.

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RPM of PHP 5.3.2RC3 (Release Candidate 3) are available in remi-test repository for Fedora 11, 12 and EL 5. If you have issues with the version 5.3.1, or if you want to play:
yum –enablerepo=remi-test \    –enablerepo=remi  update php\*
Feeddbacks (using Forums) are expected.
A little build issue with phar command: PHP Bug #50578.
This version should be the last before the finale, expected for the beginning of March.
This site is powered by this… Lire php-5.3.2-0.2.RC3

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