Tag Archives: nginx

howto setup lnmp on centOS

Posted by on 03/07/2011 No comments

lnmp is an alternative setup to lamp. The difference between lamp & lnmp is the web server, lamp uses apache whereas lnmp uses nginx. lnmp stands for

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stress test your web server with httperf

Posted by on 19/06/2011 2 comments

Httperf is a tool for measuring web server performance. It provides a flexible facility for generating various HTTP workloads and for measuring server performance.

NOTE : for accurate results, it’s best to run httperf from a remote machine and not from the localhost

to install httperf in red-hat based distributions (additional repo are needed. For centos you’ll need rpmforge, see here for installation)

yum install httperf

in debian based

apt-get install httperf

or install from source, here is the download page

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installing froxlor control panel with nginx on centos

Posted by on 27/02/2011 2 comments

While there are a lot of control control panels for apache, I believe this is the sole for nginx.

For this setup to work you should already have nginx, mysql and php installed and configured in your system.

 

 

 

fetch the latest version to your server

wget http://files.froxlor.org/releases/froxlor-latest.tar.gz

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