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Category Archives: Technical Notes
More tweaking for Ozblogistan
I did some minor optimisations on Ozblogistan last weekend. I have HTTP compression enabled on the webserver (gzip, to be precise). I found out through the excellent YSlow plugin that not everything was being compressed. HTML was compressed, but not … Continue reading
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An nginx/PHP gotcha
If you are allowing larger-than-default files to be uploaded to an nginx server with PHP FCGI, you need to alter both the php.ini and the nginx.conf. In particular, for nginx.conf, you need to use the client_max_body_size directive to set the … Continue reading
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