Those who follow the Linux news will know that part of the team at Mandriva forked the distribution and started Mageia. At the announcement of the forking in Sep 2010, I was quite worried as to where this would leave me. As I have many servers, desktops, and laptops spread between many friends, family and [...]
It’s been a while (12 months) since nginx was last updated for Mandriva 2010.0 which has left my server running 0.8.17 for a long time. However since nginx is currently at 0.8.35 and the 0.8 branch has now gone stable along with many new features and bug fixes (see the changelog), I thought now was [...]
As part of an overall upgrade for my systems, I’m moving to a brand new server. It’s my first rackmount server at 1U high and will be going into a colocation centre soonish. It will be running a variety of applications including: Mandriva Linux 2010.0 Web Serving: Nginx, Apache 2.2, PHP 5.3 Mail: Postfix, Dovecot, [...]
With my slow move over to nginx I’ve been finding the odd niggle to solve. Today’s one was the inability for my wordpress installations to use the automatic upgrade facility whilst running on nginx. Instead it kept asking to fall back to ftp for upgrading. On apache, this can occur when your wordpress directory does [...]
Lots going on at the moment. I’m migrating most of mine and my clients websites to nginx from apache in preparation for moving everything to a new server. First thoughts? Nginx is super fast, reasonably easy to configure (once you figure out the php issues) and saves a heap on memory. Downside? I’ve had the [...]