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Fixing ruTorrent errors with nginx 1.6.1-2

The nginx 1.6.1-2 release on Debian Backports made a change to the default fastcgi configuration file with an almost casual reference in the release notes:

 * debian/conf/fastcgi_params:
    + Sync with upstream and remove `SCRIPT_FILENAME` parameter.
      This change might break fastcgi sites. (Closes: #718639)

* debian/conf/fastcgi_params:

+ Sync with upstream and remove `SCRIPT_FILENAME` parameter.

This change might break fastcgi sites. (Closes: #718639)

Talk about an understatement – that change broke every single PHP based site I manage (including this blog). Fixing the errors from this change …

nginx + Apache + W3 Total Cache – a bad combination

WordPress is notorious for buckling if a site sees a sudden spike in traffic (also known as the Digg Effect, slashdotted, fireballed etc. etc.). As a result, a number of plugins have emerged to replace the default “render-on-every-access” WordPress model with serving static files from disk (ala Drupal or Joomla). …

Preventing Version Info Leakage with Dotdeb’s PHP 5.3.2 for Debian

There are plenty of arguments for and against Security Through Obscurity – I’m of the opinion that while the benefit for doing it might be slim, actually implementing it doesn’t cause any problems, so why not? Moving On! The fastest way to upgrade the PHP version on Debian/Lenny “stable” without …