Archive for the ‘lighttpd’ Category

open_basedir will slow you down – security vs. speed

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Just a quickie. I’m working on some security enhancements for my new website project, and in that progress, I have moved away from Apache2.2.3 and now using Lighttpd instead. Lighttpd does not use the same method of invoking php as apache does (mod_php vs. fast-cgi php). In my eager to make the ...

Faster Page Loads – Bundle Your CSS and Javascript with lighttpd

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Hello again, Preface This time I have been busy playing with Lighttpd and mod_magnet. I found a blog post where darix mentions a post from sitepoint where they demostrate a technique to speed up the HTTP GET of javascript and CSS files. Its quite simple really, instead of doing <link href="/css/styles1.css" rel="stylesheet" ...