Tengine seems to be a popular web server for Chinese websites. I’ve come upon it while browsing through Aliexpress and stumbling upon a 404 error: This error and more specifically its footer “Powered by Tengine” stirred up my interest and so I started looking for more information about this unknown to me web server. Here… read more »
Notice: This article was written when SuPHP was the most popular choice for running multiple PHP sites on the same Apache server. Now, php-fpm with different users is a better choice. But still, if you need this article, here it is… In short, SuPHP runs the PHP web scripts as a predefined system user, respecting… read more »
To secure the communication and increase the level of privacy to and from your Tomcat servlet container you should use SSL. Usually there’s an Apache or Nginx in front of Tomcat to serve external clients’ request and this web front server is also supposed to provide SSL connectivity. However, this is not always the case… read more »
Changing Tomcat’s initial (Xms) and maximum (Xmx) memory turns out to be counter-intuitive on Windows, especially when Tomcat is installed as a service. That’s because when running under a service on Windows, Tomcat does not read initial runtime configure files such as setenv.bat (or setenv.sh for Linux) and thus you cannot define variables there. So… read more »