I have been doing some experimenting with caching performance using loader.io and have been left with some puzzling results. I was originally on a shared host that used a LAMP stack. Even with caching enabled it would fall over after 200 visitors in 1 minute. I setup a basic LEMP (Nginx 1.9.12 + PHP-FPM7.0) 1GB … Read more
I need to serve my app through my app server at 8080, and my static files from a directory without touching the app server. The nginx config I have is something like this… # app server on port 8080 # nginx listens on port 8123 server { listen 8123; access_log off; location /static/ { # … Read more
I’m attempting to set up WordPress skeleton (https://github.com/markjaquith/WordPress-Skeleton/) in a multisite configuration. WordPress skeleton already places WordPress in a subdirectory (wp by default). I’ve taken the following steps: git clone WordPress-Skeleton Update Submodules and checkout 3.6.1 tag Setup local-config.php to point to my local DB Install WordPress, set site settings to example.com (site), example.com/wp (WordPress … Read more
External rewrite rules are awesome. They let you define rewrites that don’t necessarily pass through WordPress’ index.php. This means you can map arbitrary rules to arbitrary files like: $wp_rewrite->add_external_rule( ‘^somethingrandom/?$’, ‘wp-content/wp-uploads/hiddendirectory/somefile.php’ ); Then, any request to http://site.url/somethingrandom/ will actually be served a static PHP file from a different directory. This is amazing, and it lets … Read more
I am using this page (http://wiki.nginx.org/WordPress) to setup my WordPress on a nginx/php-fpm server. Everything is okay, except the 404 page When I request www.example.com/foo, it send me the default nginx 404 not found page I have already set the following, but no luck.. Config: fastcgi_intercept_errors on; error_page 404 /index.php?error=404; I have tried to add … Read more
Greetings, I have a WP site with over than 150k pageviews /day. It’s running on a Intel Core i5 CPU 760 @ 2.80GHz, with Centos and 4 GB of RAM. The problem is WP consumes too much RAM and after a while serve gets overloaded and RAM runs out. I’ve tried many Apache tweeks but … Read more
I’ve set up Node.js and Nginx on my server. Now I want to use it, but, before I start there are 2 questions: How should they work together? How should I handle the requests? There are 2 concepts for a Node.js server, which one is better: a. Create a separate HTTP server for each website … Read more
I have a wordpress blog which is served by apache2(on port 80) and nginx(on port 8080) on Ubuntu 12.04. Now whenever a client connects via port 80 all is hunky dory, but when a client connects to 8080 to view the same blog, the connection is redirected to apache. Why is this happening? I searched … Read more
I am running WordPress 4.1 Multisite on CentOS with NGINX. I have set define(‘FS_METHOD’,’direct’); in wp-config.php but am still getting prompted for FTP credentials when trying to install a plugin. I have tried chmod’ing the wp-content directories recursively with both nginx and www-data users and neither works 2 Because I had cut and pasted define(’FS_METHOD’,’direct’); … Read more
So I have a Nginx running inside a docker container, I have a mysql running on localhost, I want to connect to the MySql from within my Nginx. The MySql is running on localhost and not exposing a port to the outside world, so its bound on localhost, not bound on the ip address of … Read more
