There are a few Lua-based webservers around: Xavante seems to be the most popular. Haserl is nice and small. Nanoki is not strictly a webserver, but a nice small pure Lua wiki engine worth studying. As for the Lua wikies, there is also Sputnik, which is fully featured and very flexible, but is a bit … Read more
According to nginx documentation there is no syntax for NOT matching a regular expression. Instead, match the target regular expression and assign an empty block, then use location / to match anything else So you could define something like location ~ (dir1|file2\.php) { # empty } location / { rewrite ^/(.*) http://example.com/$1 permanent; }
It depends. Out of the box, putting nginx in front as a reverse proxy is going to give you: Access logs Error logs Easy SSL termination SPDY support gzip support Easy ways to set HTTP headers for certain routes in a couple of lines Very fast static asset serving (if you’re serving off S3/etc. though, … Read more
You can change Apaches httpd.conf by clicking (in xampp control panel) apache/conf/httpd.conf and adjust the entries for DocumentRoot and the corresponding Directory entry. Just Ctrl+F for “htdocs” and change the entries to your new path. See screenshot: # # DocumentRoot: The directory out of which you will serve your # documents. By default, all requests … Read more
To turn off and disable Skype usage of and listening on port 80 and port 443, open the Skype window, then click on the Tools menu and select Options. Click on the Advanced tab, and go to the Connection sub-tab. Untick or uncheck the checkbox for Use port 80 and 443 as an alternative for … Read more
If you have a singleton class and you run two webapps that use this class in Tomcat both webapps will get 2 different instances of this singleton in JVM running the Tomcat. But if your webapp will use a singleton from JRE or Tomcat shared libs, eg Runtime.getRuntime webapps will get the same instance of … Read more
Let’s assume you have this folder structure in your server .cpanel/ public_html/ public_ftp/ .. And the laravel folder structure is app/ bootstrap/ public/ vendor/ composer.json artisan .. You can create a folder name mylaravelsite on your server inline with public_html and public_ftp folder, and copy to it the whole laravel application except the public folder … Read more
Pre-forking basically means a master creates forks which handle each request. A fork is a completely separate *nix process. Update as per the comments below. The pre in pre-fork means that these processes are forked before a request comes in. They can however usually be increased or decreased as the load goes up and down. … Read more
You need to use the alias directive for location /static: server { index index.html; server_name test.example.com; root /web/test.example.com/www; location /static/ { alias /web/test.example.com/static/; } } The nginx wiki explains the difference between root and alias better than I can: Note that it may look similar to the root directive at first sight, but the document … Read more
You need sockets. They serve as the end-points to the connection. Although, you can use alternatives to the blocking Socket and ServerSocket implementations. NIO (New IO) uses channels. It allows for non-blocking I/O: class Server { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { ServerSocketChannel ssc = ServerSocketChannel.open(); ssc.configureBlocking(false); while(true) { SocketChannel sc = ssc.accept(); … Read more