On a previous post I already explained briefly what Varnish is and the advantages of running it along with Pound to get an amazing caching architecture under HTTPS for Drupal. On this tutorial I'll upgrade the steps so we can run both, Drupal 7 and Drupal 8 sites with Varnish 4.x which at the time of this post, is the latest supported by Drupal 8. Also, the Ubuntu version used is 16.04 which is the latest LTS release from the Ubuntu guys.Alright, let's begin by getting the required packages. First, we need to get Pound, a version superior to 2.7 which…
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Development and put on production of Drupal 8 sites is moving really fast, and demanding sites are always going to require strong search engines to quickly process thousands of search requests to their sites. On this tutorial I'm going to show you how to install an Apache Solr server to index any Drupal 8 data for fast search queries and results. Drupal 7 sites will also benefit of this since we are taking advantage of the Search API and Search API Solr modules integration.Drupal 8 requires a minimum version of Solr 4.x so for this tutorial we'll be using 4.5.1, we'll be…
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On this post I'll show you how to run Drupal 8 or any PHP application using Apache HTTP Server with mod_event enabled and PHP 7-FPMFirst we need to get the required PHP and Apache packages from the Ubuntu repository:$sudo apt-get install php7.0-fpm apache2 libapache2-mod-fastcgithen we need to disable the worker that's enabled by default and switch to mpm_event:$sudo a2dismod mpm_worker
$sudo a2enmod mpm_eventNow that we have enabled the event module, let's activate some required extra apache modules needed to run our apps like Drupal:$sudo a2enmod alias rewrite fastcgi expires headers… Read more
$sudo a2enmod mpm_eventNow that we have enabled the event module, let's activate some required extra apache modules needed to run our apps like Drupal:$sudo a2enmod alias rewrite fastcgi expires headers… Read more
Quick install Composer library manager on Ubuntu 16.04 to handle Drupal 8 libraries.First, get Composer:$cd ~
$sudo apt-get install curl
$sudo curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | phpmake Composer available globally:$sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composerand you are done! You should get a similar output as in the next screenshot: Read more
$sudo apt-get install curl
$sudo curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | phpmake Composer available globally:$sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composerand you are done! You should get a similar output as in the next screenshot: Read more
On this tutorial I will show you how to configure your Pound proxy server so it can take advantage of the awesome SSL service provided by Let's Encrypt.
Let's Encrypt is an open-source certificate authority that issues SSL certificates for free making use of the ACME protocol, making possible to obtain trusted certificates for your websites and operate under HTTPS:// with no browser warnings and securing your content of course.
The services also provides a command line tool called Certbot, that can be easily installed on any Linux OS and it will help creating the necessary steps in… Read more
Let's Encrypt is an open-source certificate authority that issues SSL certificates for free making use of the ACME protocol, making possible to obtain trusted certificates for your websites and operate under HTTPS:// with no browser warnings and securing your content of course.
The services also provides a command line tool called Certbot, that can be easily installed on any Linux OS and it will help creating the necessary steps in… Read more
