A client wants the old .aspx path could redirect the visitor to another URL. I don’t want to make the server to host a .aspx file so i add the redirection in the Nginx virtual host config.
Add the following lines insider the server { … }.
## Special redirect for the following
## old xxx.aspx to eureka.ykyuen.info
location /xxx.aspx {
return 301 $scheme://eureka.ykyuen.info;
}
Done =)
HTTP Authentication is the easiest way to prevent anonymous user access to your website. If you are on Apache, you can refer to the following post.
.htaccess – Setting Password For Your Web Folder
After you have created the password file, you could add the following line in the .htaccess or in the Apache VirtualHost.
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Edit your Nginx virtual host config file and the redirection could be done as follow.
non-www to www
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com;
return 301 $scheme://www.example.com$request_uri;
}
server {
listen 80;
server_name www.example.com;
## here goes the rest of your conf...
}
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Previously i have setup a server with Nginx and MariaDB.
Run Drupal 7 in Nginx
But there is one problem in this setup. I cannot restart the MariaDB service. Whenever it is down, i have to restart the server instance.
At first, i thought the failure is caused by the modification of the /etc/mysql/my.cnf. So i try to restore the original my.cnf. The following solution helps you to restore the default package configuration file.
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In Drupal, we can use a progress bar when uploading an image or file. But that needs a PHP PECL extension called uploadprogress. The following steps work for Ubuntu Precise (Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS).
1. Install the php5-dev package.
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We can install package easily in Ubuntu by the apt-get command. But sometimes we may want to find out what packages are available in the repositories as well as the package version.
To search a package, use the apt-cache search <name> command.
For example, apt-cache search nginx
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After so many days we have talked about setting up Nginx, PHP-FPM, MariaDB and some PHP caching. We can now try to run a Drupal instance on them. Before we starts, let me listed out all the previous posts.
It’s time to start the Drupal installation.
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Memcached is a distributed memory caching system and it caches data and objects in RAM to reduce the number of times an external data source (such as a database or API) must be read.
Like APC, the installation is simple.
1. Install Memcached.
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APC stands for Alternative PHP Cache is a opcode which also known as machine code. The opcode is cached such that every time a request is sent to server, the same opcode is used until it detects a change in the PHP file.
Installation is easy and straight forward.
1. Install using apt-get.
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1. Install phpMyAdmin.
2. Select neither Apache nor Lighttpd for the web server selection as we want to run it in Nginx.
3. And say NO for the Configure database for phpmyadmin with dbconfig-common?
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Eureka! 