For Indonesian CentOS user who search for fast IIX (Local) Repo to update ver.5.2 including x86_64, you could point your repo to http://mirror.lintaswave.net.id/centos/ .
This repo is no longer available, use http://mirror.biz.net.id/ it is the best one available right now (IMO).
Nginx (pronounced “engine x”) is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy, as well as an IMAP/POP3 proxy server. Written by Igor Sysoev in 2005, still in beta, Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption, taken from the wiki. I will not go deeper on the subject of nginx as a preferrable alteranate HTTP Server asides from Apache, since I don’t have a lot of knowledge on the subject.
This article intends to show you a step by step tutorial on how to install (and do basic configuration) for Nginx powered Web Sites with PHP (through php-fpm) and MySQL Enabled in CentOS 5.1 (x86_64) Virtual Box. The Box is from Magnet VPS (Entry with 128MB Dedicated RAM, 256MB SWAP Space and 5GB HDD Space).
These are the simple steps to Install and do basic configuration Apache 2.2.3, MySQL 5.0.22 and PHP on a base install CentOS 5.1 x86_64.
If somehow you need to add SWAP space in your Linux Box without having to reboot your Box, you could follow these steps. Basically create an Image in your HDD, format it to swap file system, and add it to your swap space, optionally you could add it to your fstab, so it still there during a reboot.
Build the Image
Build the image using dd command, give the size according to your needs. This example shows a 512MB image file.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/directory/swap.image oflag=direct bs=1M count=512
Format the Image
Format the image to SWAP file type.
mkswap /direktori/swap.image
Activate Your Newly Created SWAP Image
mkswap /path/to/directory/swap.image
Configure fstab
If you want the SWAP survive reboot.
vi /etc/fstab ### add the line similar to /path/to/directory/swap.image swap swap defaults 0 0
HTTPS, SSL and Nginx
Say you want to run https port on nginx using a self signed SSL Certificate, this article summarized the steps. First we create the SSL Key, CSR (Certificate Signing Request) and CRT (SSL Certificate) and Configure nginx to answer the request from SSL port.
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