Tag: servers

Apache 2.4, the Event MPM, PHP via mod_proxy_fcgi and PHP-FPM – with vhosts!

Recently, I’ve spent a huge amount of time working on Apache and PHP-FPM in order to allow for a threaded Apache MPM whilst still using PHP and virtual hosts (vhosts). As this article is going to be rather lengthy, I’m going to split it up into sections below. It’s my hope that after reading the …

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Amavisd – debugging and logging startup failures

Recently, I wrote an article about amavisd not running with Postfix, and getting a “Connection refused to 127.0.0.1” error message that wasn’t easy to diagnose. Yesterday, I ran into another problem with amavisd refusing to start properly, and I wasn’t readily able to figure out why. By default, amavisd logs to your mail log, which …

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RHEL/CentOS Kickstart partition scheme with disk by-path IDs and automation via PXE

So, for several weeks now, I’ve been struggling with disk naming and UDEV as they relate to RHEL or CentOS Kickstart automation via PXE. Basically, what used to be a relatively straight-forward process of setting up partitions based on disk name (e.g. /dev/sda for the primary disk, /dev/sdb for the secondary disk, and so on) …

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