I needed to make some changes to an old PHP (Wordpress) site and wanted to quickly run it locally. I don't actively use PHP anymore therefore I didn't want to install XAMPP or anything big like this. The obvious idea was to use WSL to run the site. First I tried with Apache, but for some reason, despite everything being... Read more »
I’m not going to write about whether I think mod_pagespeed is good or not, is it suitable for your website, why you should use it or not. I’ll focus only on installation and configuration. Since you’re here and still reading I assume you want to speed up your website with Google’s mod_pagespeed. If you’... Read more »
Compressing CSS and JavaScript files will put a bit more load on the server but its worth doing as it will save you some bandwidth and your site will be delivered faster to your users/visitors. Load mod_deflate First you need to make sure you have mod_deflate module loaded. Check you have this line in your httpd.conf... Read more »
When you want to patch your site or just make some amends it's a good idea to close the site so that your visitors don’t see the mess you make while patching 🙂 You can easily do it using .htaccess file. I assume you know basics of Apache mod_rewrite so I’m not gonna explain each line. Options +FollowSymLinks... Read more »
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