Controlling Buffer Overflow Attacks by limiting settings in nginx

You have to limit few things in your nginx.conf: buffer size, body size and timeouts.

“Starting nginx: Enter PEM pass phrase:” – not any more

We generated new ssl key. This time it’s from Gigaone. I added it to site’s config file and after restart of nginx I have a message: “Starting nginx: Enter PEM pass phrase:”. Everything is fine, however I don’t want to fill my password after each restart of nginx. Time to do something with it.

PHP via apache on the server with nginx and django

I already described how to configure WordPress on nginx + lighttpd + FastCGI + php (via spawn-fcgi), as well as how to configure php-fpm on server with nginx. Now… I will try to describe alternative way to serve php scripts on the machine with python apps (django) and nginx installed – via installed apache.

I want to serve php via Php-fpm on my ubuntu

My plan is to have one server for my python and php applications. I already wrote about configuring nginx + apache for django applications. As well as configuring WordPress on nginx + lighttpd + FastCGI + php (via spawn-fcgi). Today I will to present how to serve my php applications via php-fpm.

I’m building production environment for my django apps

I’m building production environment on my VPS for all of my django applications. What I need is: Django framework, Apache (with mod_wsgi) and nginx. I will do it on ubuntu 9.04.

Forbidden access to ‘.svn/entries’ via nginx

You shouldn’t give an access to your ‘.svn’ directory. This flaw exposes all file names in your svn module and can also be used to download the source code of the scripts (PHP, JSP, etc…) hosted on the remote server.

Dynamic subdomains via nginx

Sometimes we need to handle lots of subdomains (e.g. we want to have URLs like someones_login.ourdomain.com). So, lets configure nginx for this kind of situation.

Script for start/stop/restart pylons project

It is always a good idea to run your python projects via paster + nginx. Some time ago I wrote about building environment for pylons projects on ubuntu, so that shouldn’t be a problem. Now… let create some kind of script to start, stop and restart our application.

WordPress on nginx + lighttpd + FastCGI + php

Sure, you can always install Apache. However… sometimes you can’t… for example: there could be some other web server installed on your port 80. There could be nginx for your python projects already installed (like in my case).