We have following two location blocks in our nginx.conf file, if the block about “protected” is placed before the “.php” one, then php script inside the /protected directory wont be executed as php script.
http://wiki.nginx.org/Faq#How_do_I_generate_an_htpasswd_file_without_having_Apache_tools_installed.3F
Common php compile errors and the corresponding missing lib
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php-fpm is a fcgi process manager. it supports chroot of worker processes by use of chroot directive for each pool.
When mysql chroot and web server chroot are different, we can still connect to mysql in our web app using 127.0.0.1, i.e. via tcp/ip. But localhost/socket will not work, since the two chroots are different.
If mysql chroot is under web server chroot, We can then use localhost/socket to connect to mysql from within webserver chroot in our web app.
Performance wise, socket is better than tcp/ip due to the overhead of tcp/ip.
Encounter error like “configure: error: mcrypt.h not found. Please reinstall libmcrypt.” when trying to build php on CentOS 6 or alike?
Can not Yum install php-mcrypt?
This is becasue CentOS 6.3 Yum base repository dropped support of libmCrypt php-mcrypt… Here is a quick fix to install libmCrypt php-mcrypt on CentOS 6 (and RHEL 6 etc.)
Nginx Chroot set up how-to.
This is the way we compile from source.
There is another way in which we leverage an existing nginx rpm and build up a chroot env. out of it. we will visit this option in another post.
Mysql is the most popular database server. Chroot is preferred to enhance security.
Can not find any documentation on how to do this elsewhere? Read on…