Wordpress MU, NGINX and FastCGI on CentOS

By Eelco Wesemann in nginx on

Since my VPS at Loeniks is somewhat limited in resources, and because Apache has no trouble claiming all these resources, I took it upon myself to find an alternative. Lighttpd (lighty) and NGINX (engine-x) were both possible replacements. Both offered the ability to parse PHP scripts using a FastCGI implementation.…

Blocking unwanted guests with NGINX

By Eelco Wesemann in spam on

Lately, my sites are being hammered by “unwanted behavior”. Because I feel I cannot blindly trust my WordPress installs to be 100% bug-free, I like to block as many of these unwanted behaviors before any PHP code is executed on my server. Currently, I use the following NGINX techniques to…