The following guides have been modified to work with the latest updates:
Apache Install Guide
Russian GD 2.0.33 Guide
Apache Performance Guide
Linux VPN Guide
The Linux VPN Guide went through a lot of modifications. I updated the patches to compile on Fedora Core 4 and Debian Linux. Installed and tested on a brand new box and it worked perfectly! :) I will be modifying the Qmail Guide soon, so stay tuned!
Guide updates
25Sep/05
Apache, PHP, GD & Mod_Perl Guide
20Jul/04
This guide is for those who want to build a stable Apache compiled with PHP, GD, mod_ssl and mod_perl for production servers. Since a lot of people get confused with a source installation, I decided to write this guide to help them out. It’s very sad that the latest versions of linux come with Apache2, which is not yet ready to be built for real production servers. After checking out Apache2, I found the following problems:
- mod_perl is unstable on Apache2. After testing some scripts that heavily rely on mod_perl, I came across segmentation faults and weird errors.
- PHP will not compile into Apache2 – it can only be installed as a DSO module. I wouldn’t install PHP as a module on a production server since PHP works much faster when compiled into Apache and you will need all the speed you can get, especially if you have limited RAM.
- Some apache 1.3.x modules don’t work with Apache2.
I’m sure there are more problems out there, but they are all getting fixed day by day. Apache2 has some very neat features and I hope to see it in production servers soon.
Russian GD 2.0.33 Guide
8Nov/03
I wrote this guide for those people, who would like to print cyrillic letters in GD. Since native GD fonts do not support Cyrillic characters, the only way to print out Cyrillic on GD is to use TrueType fonts. If you are using GD very often, using ttf is not the best and speedy solution. TrueType fonts do require more memory, time and CPU usage for producing an image in GD, whereas native GD fonts take up a lot less memory and time, because they are already compiled into GD.
Russian GD 1.8.4 Guide
22Oct/03
This guide is for those people, who would like to print Cyrillic letters in GD. Since native GD fonts do not support Cyrillic characters, the only way to print out Cyrillic on GD is to use TrueType fonts. If you are using GD very often, using TTF is not the best and speedy solution. TrueType fonts do require more memory, time and CPU usage for producing an image in GD, whereas native GD fonts take up a lot less memory and time, because they are already compiled into GD.