LIGHTY :The future in Web servers

Lighttpd is the Web server of choice if the goal is performance. Lighttpd consumes less resources and at the same time is powerful web server. With FastCGI and Xcache as performance boosters, lighttpd is the best solution for any webserver facing high CPU usage. This...

Deploying Ruby on Rails

This article is an introduction to the installation and deployment of Ruby on Rails. What is Ruby on Rails? Ruby is a programming language just like Perl, Python or PHP. Rails is an open source Ruby framework for developing database-backed web applications. You could...

Enabling WebDAV for Apache

Recently I had the opportunity to enable WebDav for an account in a Plesk 5.5 server that my team maintained. The machine was a RedHat 7.3 server on which ran Apache 1.3.27. The following article is a documentation of the questions I asked myself regarding WebDav. I...

Understanding htaccess

.htaccess (Hypertext Access) is the default name of Apache’s directory-level configuration file. It allows webmasters to customize configuration directives, normally available in the main httpd.conf. htaccess allows webmasters to do a range of customization to a...