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    Any Unix gurus care to help me with mod_rewrite? Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
    Monday, September 06 2004 @ 08:53 AM CDT
    By David L. Farquhar

    I've watched my search engine traffic decrease steadily for the past few months since I changed blogging software. It seems most engines don't care much for the super-long arguments this software passes in its URLs.

    The solution is mod_rewrite, and I think my syntax looks correct, but it's not working for me.

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    Optimizing dynamic Linux webservers Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
    Monday, January 26 2004 @ 06:20 PM CST
    By David L. Farquhar

    Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP (LAMP) provides an outstanding foundation for building a web server, for, essentially, the value of your time. And the advantages over static pages are fairly obvious: Just look at this web site. Users can log in and post comments without me doing anything, and content on any page can change programmatically. In my site's case, links to my most popular pages appear on the front page, and as their popularity changes, the links change.

    The downside? Remember the days when people bragged about how their 66 MHz 486 was a perfectly good web server? Kiss those goodbye. For that matter, your old Pentium-120 or even your Pentium II-450 may not be good enough either. Unless you know these secrets...

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