apache
Apache performance tuning – Expires Headers
With the advent of YSlow, we should all now be aware of adding expires headers to our web servers. For my purposes, I wanted to enable it globally, then fine-tune per Virtual Host. In my Apache httpd.conf, I added the following directives: <ifmodule mod_expires.c> <filesmatch \".(jpg|gif|png|css|js|swf|ico)$\"> ExpiresActive on ExpiresDefault \"access plus 1 year\" </filesmatch> </ifmodule> [...]
Utilizing mod_deflate & zlib for web performance
Every webmaster is looking for ways to enhance performance. I’ve researched the web and found some hits and some misses. Here are a couple changes that have dramatically improved Apache and PHP performance for me. Of course, this is my implementation, and I’d like to hear from others how I could improve.
Getting xdebug installed in OS X Tiger
Here’s what I did: 1. Install Marc Liyanage’s PHP5 package for Apache 1.3.x 2. Mod your path defaults # sudo su – # cd /usr/bin # mv php php4 # mv phpize phpize4 # mv php-config php-config4 # ln -s /usr/local/php5/bin/php php # ln -s /usr/local/php5/bin/phpize phpize # ln -s /usr/local/php5/bin/php-config php-config 3. Get xdebug [...]
