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Words, Words, Words--Introducing OpenSearchServer

How to create your own search engine combined with a crawler that will index all sorts of documents.

ModSecurity and nginx

nginx is the web server that's replacing Apache in more and more of the world's websites. Until now, nginx has not been able to benefit from the security ModSecurity provides. Here's how to install ModSecurity and get it working with nginx. Earlier this year the popular open-source web application firewall, ModSecurity, released version 3 of its software. Version 3 is a significant departure from the earlier versions, because it's now modularized. Before version 3, ModSecurity worked only with the Apache web server as a dependent module, so there was no way for other HTTP applications to utilize ModSecurity. Now the core functionality of ModSecurity, the HTTP filtering engine, exists as a standalone library, libModSecurity, and it can be integrated into any other application via a "connector". A connector is a small piece of code that allows any application to access libModSecurity.

nginx and WordPress

In my last article, I took an initial look at nginx, the high-performance open-source HTTP that uses a single process and a single thread to service a large number of requests. nginx was designed for speed and scalability, as opposed to Apache, which was designed to maximize flexibility and configuration.

Linaro Ltd.'s OpenDataPlane

The OpenDataPlane (ODP) project is a founding initiative by the Linaro Networking Group to produce an open-source, cross-platform application programming interface (API) for the networking Software Defined Data Plane. Linaro Ltd.

Let's Automate Let's Encrypt

HTTPS is a small island of security in this insecure world, and in this day and age, there is absolutely no reason not to have it on every Web site you host. Up until last year, there was just a single last excuse: purchasing certificates was kind of pricey.

Engineers love to think that they make decisions based on pure logic and merit. But of course, everyone has biases in terms of programming languages, editors and other technologies—biases that probably can be defended in technical terms, but that often come down to an emotional argument as much as a technical one.