So, after reading several websites which now IPv6 enable, I would like to make this blog IPv6 enable too… :p
First case is, I can run this blog under IPv6 with BuyVM without problem. Buy with another host, I always have a problem. But thank’s to the LET, when I post a thread about this issues, Mr. Salvatore from Prometeus/Iperweb comes with a suggestion.
When I’m running this blog with Ubuntu 10.04, I can run without problem with BuyVM, but with another host, with the same Ubuntu 10.04, and the same configuration for PHP and Lighttpd, I always facing issues. So I decided to try another OS, Ubuntu 11.10 32 bit with VPS from Prometeus/Iperweb.
By using Ubuntu 11.10, we get Lightpd 1.4.28.
And the configuration is a bit different from Ubuntu 10.04 / Lighttpd 1.4.26.
So, here is the steps I take to make this blog running under Ubuntu 11.10 :
- Create a backup of WordPress directory and database at another VPS
- Fresh Installation of Ubuntu 11.10 VPS
- Update / Upgrade, and removing unneeded packages :
# apt-get -y update && apt-get -y upgrade && service apache2 stop && apt-get -y remove apache2 && apt-get -y remove portmap && apt-get -y remove bind9 && apt-get -y remove samba && rm -rf /usr/sbin/apache2
- Installing needed component to run as a Webserver:
# apt-get install -y nano squid openvpn gcc c++ g++ lighttpd mysql-server php5-cgi php5-mysql php5-gd php5-curl php5-imagick php5-memcache php5-xcache zip
- Download the backup file and databases :
# wget www.backupserver.com/backup.sql && wget www.backupserver.com/backup.tar.gz
- Copying the files to the webdir and extract it :
cp /root/backup.tar.gz /var/www && cd /var/www && tar xf backup.tar.gz
- Creating Databases and Import the backup database to the system :
# mysql -u root -p Insert the MySQL password for root... mysql> create database database_name; mysql> grant usage on *.* to database_user@localhost identified by 'database_password'; mysql> grant all privileges on database_name.* to database_user@localhost; mysql> flush privileges; mysql> exit; # mysql -u database_user --password=database_password database_name < /root/backup.sql
- Configure the Lighttpd 1.4.28 to work with IPv6 :
# nano /etc/lighttpd/lightpd.conf server.modules = ( "mod_access", "mod_alias", "mod_compress", "mod_redirect", "mod_rewrite" ) server.document-root = "/var/www" server.upload-dirs = ( "/var/cache/lighttpd/uploads" ) server.errorlog = "/var/log/lighttpd/error.log" server.pid-file = "/var/run/lighttpd.pid" server.username = "www-data" server.groupname = "www-data" index-file.names = ( "index.php", "index.html", "index.htm", "default.htm", "index.lighttpd.html" ) url.access-deny = ( "~", ".inc" ) static-file.exclude-extensions = ( ".php", ".pl", ".fcgi" ) ## Use ipv6 if available #server.bind = "[::]" include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/use-ipv6.pl" dir-listing.encoding = "utf-8" server.dir-listing = "enable" compress.cache-dir = "/var/cache/lighttpd/compress/" compress.filetype = ( "application/x-javascript", "text/css", "text/html", "text/plain" ) include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/create-mime.assign.pl" include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/include-conf-enabled.pl"
- Configuring the simple-vhost :
# nano /etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled/10-simple-vhost # /usr/share/doc/lighttpd-doc/simple-vhost.txt server.modules += ( "mod_simple_vhost" ) ## The document root of a virtual host is document-root = ## simple-vhost.server-root + $HTTP["host"] + simple-vhost.document-root simple-vhost.server-root = "/var/www" simple-vhost.document-root = "html" ## the default host if no host is sent simple-vhost.default-host = "www.example.com"
- Enabling fastcgi and fastcgi-php in Lighttpd:
# lighttpd-enable-mod fastcgi # /etc/init.d/lighttpd force-reload # lighttpd-enable-mod fastcgi-php # /etc/init.d/lighttpd force-reload
Do remember that php-cgi is running 4 child by default, so it might eat some memory. You can tweak it by changing it :
# nano nano /etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled/15-fastcgi-php
# /usr/share/doc/lighttpd-doc/fastcgi.txt.gz # http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/Docs:ConfigurationOptions#mod_fastcgi-fastcgi ## Start an FastCGI server for php (needs the php5-cgi package) fastcgi.server += ( ".php" => (( "bin-path" => "/usr/bin/php-cgi", "socket" => "/tmp/php.socket", "max-procs" => 1, "bin-environment" => ( "PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN" => "1", "PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS" => "1000" ), "bin-copy-environment" => ( "PATH", "SHELL", "USER" ), "broken-scriptfilename" => "enable" )) )
- Restart the Lighttpd :
# service lighttpd restart
- Reducing MySQL by disabling innodb