Apache2

Installing WordPress is not all to it. For WordPress to function properly, one must make sure all the correct settings are in place. This brief tutorial shows you how to correctly configure Nginx or Apache2 webservers to allow WordPress permalinks. On this site, we’ve written many detailed tutorials on installing WordPress on Nginx and Apache2. […]

For students and new users using Ubuntu 17.04 with Nginx or Apache2 webserver to power a WordPress blog or website, here’s a brief tutorial that shows you how to easily redirect all HTTP traffic to HTTPS. By now you probably already know that running your blog pages over HTTPS is recommended by all major search […]

Few days ago we showed students and new users how to easily do 301 redirects using Apache2 and Nginx web servers on Ubuntu 17.04 systems. In that post, the method we used to perform Apache2 redirect was to use the .htaccess file in the root directory or DocumentRoot of the site. This is the most […]

Varnish is an opensource HTTP accelerator. It is usually configured to sit in front of webservers to quickly serve HTTP/HTTPS requests. Varnish can also be used as load balancer to distribute loads across multiple webservers. This brief tutorial is going to show students and new users how to install and configure Varnish with Apache2 on […]

This brief tutorial shows students and new users how to create multiple Apache2 Virtual Hosts. Virtual Hosting allows multiple independent websites or domains to be managed on a single Apache2 server. If the hardware Apache2 is running on can support multiple websites, Virtual Hosting can be used to run them. Each site runs independently and […]

The good thing about starting a new WordPress website or blog is that you get a chance to set up everything right the first time. When you get it right the first time, there will be no need to go back to fix issues that weren’t setup correctly. When starting a new website in 2018, […]

Instead of running one WordPress website per server, which may not be a great way to utilize your system resources, you can run multiple sites on a single server… Nowadays, a Linux host with 1 CPU and 4GB RAM can power multiple WordPress websites and do it efficiently with Apache2… If you want to learn […]