[HOW-TO] Install mod_rpaf for Apache 2.2

By BXTra | Sun, 02/13/2011 - 23:59
Nginx
DirectAdmin
CentOS
Apache

When you do a reverse proxy in which Nginx will be the one who listen the traffic and forward anything needs to be process through PHP to Apache. With this, Apache will always receive an IP from Nginx server (or I should say localhost / 127.0.0.1 / local IP), not the real IP that user uses. In order to let Apache knows what is real user IP, we need to install mod_rpaf.

Just copy and paste code below into SSH :

[HOW-TO] Use Nginx as a reverse proxy for DirectAdmin

By BXTra | Sun, 02/13/2011 - 21:45
Nginx
DirectAdmin

I try to use Nginx as a reverse proxy to see if there is any improvement over Apache Worker MPM or not. I found an instruction from DirectAdmin webboard but it's quite old. So, I just tried to follow their steps and do some modification to match what I have read. Below is what I did

1. You need to compile Nginx. Nginx version 0.8.54 is the lastest stable release as of today. So, just copy and paste below code into your SSH

[HOW-TO] Use "mod_fastcgi_handler + PHP-FPM" instead of "mod_fastcgi + PHP-FPM" (Less code to work on)

By BXTra | Fri, 02/11/2011 - 19:41
DirectAdmin
FastCGI
PHP-FPM
I have read about mod_fastcgi_handler which I think it will help me to write less code to work on PHP-FPM. Checked their website, even they say it's beta quality and there are a couple bugs. I still think I should try it. So, below is what I did to replace mod_fastcgi with mod_fastcgi_handler. 1.

[HOW-TO] DirectAdmin - Run Apache with "mod_fcgid on PHP 5.2 / 5.3" and "mod_fastcgi + PHP-FPM on PHP 5.3" on the same server

By BXTra | Tue, 02/08/2011 - 19:01
FastCGI
PHP-FPM
DirectAdmin
PHP Opcode Cache
XCache
APC
This guide [ Run Apache with "mod_fcgid on PHP 5.2 / 5.3" and "mod_fastcgi + PHP-FPM on PHP 5.3" on the same server in different Virtualhosts ] has 3 parts altogether. So, you may need to take a look at 2 other parts as well :

1. [HOW-TO] DirectAdmin with mod_fcgid
2. [HOW-TO] Enable and setup PHP-FPM in DirectAdmin (PHP 5.3)

YUM - remove cache of mirror URL to be able to switch to a new one.

By BXTra | Wed, 02/02/2011 - 23:59
CentOS

I just tried to install CentOS on local machine and found that when I ran 'yum install', it will always go to specific mirror url that is so slow. I know there is some cache to tell yum to use it but I don't know where on it. Try to search in google but many problem comes up that didn't relate to what I want to fix. Until I found a link below tell me where is yum cache file located. Just run command below :

[HOW-TO] Enable and setup PHP-FPM in DirectAdmin (PHP 5.3)

By BXTra | Tue, 02/01/2011 - 23:08
DirectAdmin
PHP-FPM
PHP Opcode Cache
FastCGI
XCache
APC

I've heard about PHP-FPM about a month ago from DirectAdmin webboard. Then, a few weeks ago, I had a couple websites that I need to make it run faster. After tried to do many things with it like ... to use mod_fcgid / XCache / Memcached, I feel like there was something in XCache since "Page execution time" is quite high. Then, I remember that I've read from many websites that XCache doesn't really work with mod_fcgid. From the technical point, all of them explained it clearly to understand.

[HOW-TO] Drupal 6 : Add additional "Add Comment" link into the node

By BXTra | Tue, 01/18/2011 - 18:37
Drupal
Just edit node.tpl.php and insert code below to anywhere you want : 

<?php
print l(t('Add Comment'), 'comment/reply/' . $node->nid, array('fragment' => 'comment-form'));
?>

Make sure that , 'comment/reply/' part is relative to your path. If you access your website through www.myweb.com/web. Then, that part would be , 'web/comment/reply/'

[HOW-TO] Display pager in the top of the node in Drupal 6 with Zen Theme

By BXTra | Sat, 01/08/2011 - 10:49
Drupal
I need to display pager for both top and bottom of the node for user to easily to move between pages. The one in the bottom is normally display but I want it to display in the top section also. To do that, Just put the following code :

<?php echo theme('pager', null, 1, 0, array(), 9); ?>

If you want to change the number of pages in the list, just change number 9 to anything you want.

When put that code in page.tpl.php, it will look like below :

[HOW-TO] DirectAdmin with mod_fcgid

By BXTra | Wed, 01/05/2011 - 20:14
DirectAdmin
FastCGI
All steps below should be done with a new clean install of DirectAdmin. It is possible to make it work on the server that already have users on it. I did that and it works perfectly fine. However, the steps will be a bit different and it won't work if you just follow instruction below.

1. Copy and paste below command into your SSH

Drupal 7 is official released !!

By BXTra | Wed, 01/05/2011 - 16:21
After nearly three years of intense community collaboration by nearly a thousand contributors, Drupal 7.0 is today officially released! Friendly and powerful: Drupal 7 We are proud to present to you our best work yet – Drupal 7, the friendly and powerful content management platform for building nearly any kind of website: from blogs and micro-sites to collaborative social communities. Easier to use