RPM Building Gotchas
by Danila Vershinin, July 14, 2018
Here’s my small guide on some issues, solutions, and best practices for building CentOS/RHEL RPMs. Versioning module of a program NGINX modules have to be rebuilt for specific versions of NGINX. This means that an NGINX module package essentially versions based on two components: The version of NGINX itself The version of the module (unless […]
Read More...How to use multiple real IP headers with nginx
by Danila Vershinin, July 10, 2018
How to pass real visitor IPs in nginx from two different cloud services.
Read More...Proxy requests to any remote server in nginx
by Danila Vershinin, July 8, 2018
Display information from other websites on your own, with nginx proxying.
Read More...Tuning proxy_buffer_size in NGINX
by Danila Vershinin, July 7, 2018
Make your NGINX more memory efficient and fix that “upstream sent too big header while reading response header from upstream” error.
Read More...Magento 2 Security Checklist
by Danila Vershinin, June 24, 2018
When you prepare to launch your Magento 2 website, security is one of the primary areas of concern. Whether you plan to accept credit card data directly on your website, or on a payment provider’s pages – you are required to achieve PCI compliance. Otherwise, you’ll find your business at risk of being banned from […]
Read More...How to remove the Server header in NGINX
by Danila Vershinin,
How to hide the Server HTTP header in NGINX and more: hide the fact of using NGINX altogether.
Read More...How to whitelist / unban a user in unmanaged Citrus Stack server
by Danila Vershinin, June 20, 2018
You’d rarely have to do anything about maintaining a healthy state of a Citrus Stack server. It is self healing, and secure from brute force attacks. However, when you share access with developers, a frequent problem is that the server would automatically ban them. This happens for a few reasons: Repetitive failed attempts to login […]
Read More...In-Place Upgrading: Percona MySQL 5.6 to 5.7 (RedHat/CentOS 7)
by Danila Vershinin, June 17, 2018
A simple script for updating your Percona MySQL Server 5.6 to version 5.7, in CentOS/RHEL systems.
Read More...Setup SSL connections in Percona MySQL 5.6
by Danila Vershinin, June 14, 2018
Secure remote MySQL connectivity with compulsory SSL connections
Read More...Safe MySQL configuration reload? Easy
by Danila Vershinin,
An easy way into implementing `systemctl reload mysqld`.
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