We host a lot of web sites. In the past, I've tried to put as much config info in the apache config files (often broken up into individual .conf files in /etc/httpd/conf.d in order to keep things ...

Apache is configured by placing directives in plain text configuration files. The main configuration file is usually called httpd.conf. The location of this file is set at compile-time, but may be ...

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.htaccess files (or "distributed configuration files") provide a way to make configuration changes on a per-directory basis. A file, containing one or more configuration directives, is placed in a ...

Changing the memory settings of your Apache Web server can increase performance of your website, which gives your users a better experience by speeding up page load times and preventing your website ...

Recently, I was asked to reorganize some of our Web applications to improve their stability. The major push was to get each of our applications running in its own instance of Tomcat. These ...

You’ve written a Web application that runs happily in production on Tomcat, probably on port 80. Some early problems might include complaints from your security team because your server runs as a root ...