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04.20.08.htaccess - gzip and cache your site for faster loading and bandwidth savingLast week I changed my hosting provider from Site5 to NearlyFreeSpeech.NET. Despite the fact that the first one is faster than the second, NFSN is a lot more cheaper (I only pay what I really use). So in order to speed up my site and save bandwidth (the more I use the more I pay) I use .htaccess file to gzip my text based files and optimize cache HTTP headers. Although this site is powered by Wordpress which has some really great plugins to optimize PHP output I wanted a more generic solution which can be applied to all PHP web applications. I also ...
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07.15.07JBoss Web and PHP Install TutorialApproximately 2 years ago I've written a set of tutorials that served as a guideline for a Beginner's PHP Training Course. These tutorials were made with the WAMP solution stack in mind. Since I've been working with Java EE Technologies and Servers recently, I've decided do add another one explaining how to install JBoss Web 1.0.1 GA with PHP support (PHP Handler Servlet). This was based on a tutorial by Philippe Fievet that is now offline for some reason.
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05.27.07JBoss - Stacking Login ModulesSometimes no single login module is enough to meet our needs. Imagine the case of using an external LDAP server to provide the user authentication and a database server to provide the user authorization. A user would be in one repository or the other, and login should succeed if the user is found in either repository. JBoss allows you to specify multiple login modules for a single security domain. But simple module stacking doesn't resolve the problem on its own. For that, you need to use password stacking. Password stacking allows modules to skip the actual authentication and to provide supplemental roles. ...
