Puppet Enterprise 3.3, jfryman/nginx SERVER: Invalid parameter ensure on Concat

2014-09-08

If you ever encounter the follwing error on Puppet Enterprise 3.3, using the nginx 0.0.10 module by jfryman: …more

Spare time in IT

2011-05-06

XenServer: Unable to find partition containing kernel

2011-04-20

One of our users at Loeniks managed to break his Debian VM. After upgrading to Debian 6, he tried upgrading his bootloader to Grub 2. XenServer’s paravirtualized bootloader (pygrub) is unable to handle the newest version of the Grub bootloader in virtual machines, this results in a nice and cryptic error message: …more

Wordpress MU, NGINX and FastCGI on CentOS

2011-04-06

Since my VPS at Loeniks is somewhat limited in resources, and because Apache has no trouble claiming all these resources, I took it upon myself to find an alternative. Lighttpd (lighty) and NGINX (engine-x) were both possible replacements. Both offered the ability to parse PHP scripts using a FastCGI implementation. Eventually I chose NGINX and went to work. …more

Blocking unwanted guests with NGINX

2011-04-04

Lately, my sites are being hammered by “unwanted behavior”. Because I feel I cannot blindly trust my WordPress installs to be 100% bug-free, I like to block as many of these unwanted behaviors before any PHP code is executed on my server. Currently, I use the following NGINX techniques to block unwanted visitors. …more