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Website Gzip Online Compression Test Tool

We’ve been tweaking with the gzip compression on the web server that hosts kallasoft.com, breakitdownblog.com and upmyownass.com and I kept having to dig for online tools to quickly and easily test if the compression was working and by how much. (We’ve been adjusting the DeflateCompressionLevel argument to find a good balance between compressed page content [...]

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How to Check if Apache is Running Prefork or Worker

For about the last week I’ve been trying to tweak the performance of a particular Apache server with varying degrees of success and failure. The biggest frustration is that I haven’t been able to find a way to determine which MPM mode Apache was running in: Prefork or Worker. Without that information I couldn’t tell [...]

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Using Apache Virtual Hosts and ProxyPass Together

I recently ran into a situation where I had a server with Apache on it that was already hosting a few PHP sites using VirtualHost mappings, but I now wanted to add a new Tomcat-hosted site to the same machine. In a way, what I wanted was to setup a new VirtualHost entry on Apache to [...]

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