http://us.php.net/distributions/php-5.2.17.tar.gz

http://php-fpm.org/downloads/php-5.2.17-fpm-0.5.14.diff.gz

http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.1.0.tar.gz

Then run :

tar -xvzf php-5.2.17.tar.gz
gzip -cd php-5.2.17-fpm-0.5.14.diff.gz | sudo patch -d php-5.2.17 -p1
cd php-5.2.17
./configure --enable-fastcgi --enable-fpm --with-mcrypt --with-zlib --enable-mbstring --enable-pdo --with-curl --disable-debug --with-pic --disable-rpath --enable-inline-optimization --with-bz2 --enable-xml --with-zlib --enable-sockets --enable-sysvsem --enable-sysvshm --enable-pcntl --enable-mbregex --with-mhash --with-xsl --enable-zip --with-pcre-regex --with-gd --without-pdo-sqlite --with-pdo-mysql --without-sqlite --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib --with-png-dir=/usr/lib --with-mysql --enable-bcmath --enable-calendar --enable-exif --enable-ftp --with-gettext --with-imap --with-mysqli --with-openssl --with-kerberos --with-imap-ssl --enable-dbase --with-gmp --enable-shmop --enable-wddx

make all install

Note that you can add –prefix to install the binaries in a different location than the default one.

After compilation is done :

strip /usr/local/bin/php-cgi
cp sapi/cgi/fpm/php-fpm /etc/init.d/
chmod +x /etc/init.d/php-fpm

cp /usr/src/php-5.2.17/php.ini-recommended /usr/local/lib/php.ini
mkdir /etc/php/
ln -s /usr/local/lib/php.ini /etc/php/php.ini
ln -s /usr/local/etc/php-fpm.conf /etc/php/php-fpm.conf


Make sure you edit /etc/php/php-fpm.conf and set the proper user/group (and permissions if its the case).

Then compile Nginx:

tar zxvf nginx-1.1.0.tar.gz
./configure --sbin-path=/usr/local/sbin --with-http_ssl_module --without-mail_pop3_module --without-mail_imap_module --without-mail_smtp_module --with-http_stub_status_module
make && sudo make install


The same you can modify the –prefix here.

On older Plesk version (

websrvmng –set-http-port –port=8080

Starting with Plesk 10 this is not so easy since you have to edit a php file called /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/templates/default/domain/domainVirtualHost.php. In my case instead of :

domain->physicalHosting->ipAddress->address ?>:server->webserver->httpsPort : $VAR->server->webserver->httpPort ?>>
ServerName "domain->asciiName ?>:server->webserver->httpsPort : $VAR->server->webserver->httpPort ?>"

I’ve set :

<VirtualHost <?php echo $OPT['ipAddress']->escapedAddress ?>:<?php echo $OPT['ssl'] ? 8043 : 8080 ?>>
ServerName “<?php echo $VAR->domain->asciiName ?>:<?php echo $OPT['ssl'] ? 8043 : 8080 ?>”

Where 8043 will be the new https port and 8080 will be the http port.

After this change I had to run :

/usr/local/psa/admin/bin/httpdmng –reconfigure-all

Note that this is only for Plesk 10.x. On 9.x we used to have

/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng –reconfigure-all

After this make sure that the Apache server has set in its configuration files (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf) Listen 8080 instead of Listen 80. Same thing for the /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf file, Listen 8043 instead of Listen 443.

Then you need to install nginx (yum install nginx) and download this zip file that these guys provided http://www.grafxsoftware.com/download/nginx/nginx_setup.zip. Furthermore you can check their http://www.grafxsoftware.com/faq.php/HOW-TO-configure-PLESK-with-NGinx-proxy-reverse/1/1/.

Once downloaded run:

sh generate_nginx_conf.sh

Verify with “nginx -t” that there isn’t any error and finally restart the involved services :

service httpd restart
service nginx restart

Make sure that 8043 and 8080 accept connections. (Note that its not necessary to change the https port).

On Windows this worked fine for me:

FOR /L %i IN (0,1,99) DO domain –create mydomain61%i.INFO -login user61%i -ip IP_address -status enabled -hosting true -hst_type phys -passwd domainpass -cgi true -php true -dns true -template Default_Domain

Note that you have to add your own template and rename it like Default_Domain. Of course you can script this even more by taking the domains from a list, same for the ip addresses.

On Linux this can be done using the domain.sh script.

Download Dante from : ftp://ftp.inet.no/pub/socks/dante-1.2.0.tar.gz

tar zxvf dante-1.2.0.tar.gz
cd dante-1.2.0
yum install gcc make
./configure
make -j4
make install

ifconfig -a |  grep inet | awk ‘{print $2}’ | awk -F ‘:’ ‘{print $2}’ | grep -v 127.0.0.1 >  /root/ips

for i in `cat ips` ;do echo “internal: $i port = 6060″ >> /root/sockd.conf ;done

Example of sockd.conf :

logoutput: stderr
method: username none
external: externalIPtouse
client pass {
from: 0.0.0.0/0 port 1-65535 to: 0.0.0.0/0
}
pass {
from: 0.0.0.0/0 to: 0.0.0.0/0
method: username
protocol: tcp udp
}

Launch using :

sockd -f /root/sockd.conf -d

[root@host ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=1048576
1048576+0 records in
1048576+0 records out
[root@host ~]# sync
[root@host ~]# mkswap /swapfile
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 1073737 kB
[root@host ~]# swapon /swapfile
[root@host ~]# echo “/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0″ >> /etc/fstab

touch ifcfg-eth1:{307..366}
for f in ifcfg-eth1:{307..366}; do cat origfile > “$f”; done
for f in eth1:{307..366}; do echo “DEVICE=$f” >> “ifcfg-$f”; done
for f in {307..366}; do echo “IPADDR=aaa.bbb.ccc.$((f-239))” >> “ifcfg-eth1:$f”; done

origfile contains:

GATEWAY=eee.fff.ggg.hhh
TYPE=Ethernet
BOOTPROTO=none
NETMASK=255.255.255.192

iostat -d -x interval count

-d : Display the device utilization report (d == disk)
-x : Display extended statistics including disk utilization

interval : It is time period in seconds between two samples . iostat 2 will give data at each 2 seconds interval.

count : It is the number of times the data is needed . iostat 2 5 will give data at 2 seconds interval 5 times

Display 3 reports of extended statistics at 5 second intervals for disk

Type the following command:

# iostat -d -x 5 3

Output:

[root@vari Desktop]# iostat -d -x 5 3

Linux 2.6.18-128.7.1.el5xen (vari.taashee.com) 08/26/2009 _i686_ (2 CPU)

Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util

sda 2.41 12.42 3.27 5.37 134.84 142.70 32.13 0.12 14.04 1.83 1.58

Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util

sda 0.00 1.60 0.00 0.40 0.00 16.00 40.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util

sda 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

Where,

rrqm/s : The number of read requests merged per second that were queued to the hard disk
wrqm/s : The number of write requests merged per second that were queued to the hard disk
r/s : The number of read requests per second
w/s : The number of write requests per second
rsec/s : The number of sectors read from the hard disk per second
wsec/s : The number of sectors written to the hard disk per second
avgrq-sz : The average size (in sectors) of the requests that were issued to the device.
avgqu-sz : The average queue length of the requests that were issued to the device
await : The average time (in milliseconds) for I/O requests issued to the device to be served. This includes the time spent by the requests in queue and the time spent servicing them.

svctm : The average service time (in milliseconds) for I/O requests that were issued to the device
%util : Percentage of CPU time during which I/O requests were issued to the device (bandwidth utilization for the device). Device saturation occurs when this value is close to 100%.

How do I interpret the output result for optimization?

First you need to note down following values from the iostat output:

1. The average service time (svctm)
2. Percentage of CPU time during which I/O requests were issued (%util)
3. See if a hard disk reports consistently high reads/writes (r/s and w/s)

If any one of these are high, you need to take one of the following action:

Get high speed disk and controller for file system (for example move from SATA I to SAS 15k disk)
Tune software or application or kernel or file system for better disk utilization
Use RAID array to spread the file system

du –max-depth=1 $PWD | sort -n -r
du -H –max-depth=1 $PWD

“-H” – produce human readable format sizes (like: 1K 10M 1G)

A good and short one liner using xargs

du -s ./* | sort -n| cut -f 2-|xargs -i du -sh {}

This will sort the folders according to size and display them in human readable format… to reverse the list
use sort -nr option.

[root@shifu ~]# cat /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf | grep -v ^#
anonymous_enable=NO # disable anonymous account
local_enable=YES # enable local users
write_enable=YES # enable uploading files
local_umask=022 # mask
dirmessage_enable=YES
xferlog_enable=YES # log messages
connect_from_port_20=YES
xferlog_std_format=YES
idle_session_timeout=600
chroot_list_enable=YES # chroot users into their own dir
listen=YES

pam_service_name=vsftpd
userlist_enable=YES
tcp_wrappers=YES

/etc/vsftpd/chroot_list contains a list of all users that will be in chroot