Varnish is a real powerful cache solution for web servers. He is unfortunately not able to do it over SSL. Anyway, there is a solution by offloading it with Nginx. Here is a schema to get a better understanding : Nginx decrypt SSL, pass it in clear to Varnish. If Varnish got it, replies to Nginx which crypt back data to send to user. I’ve made a full documentation to get it working well, follow the link.

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Piwik 2.0 has been released a few days ago. The upgrade of my version was done without any issues (as a rule with Piwik). I like the look of this new version and like the new mobile application on Android. It’s really better organized and really looks like as an application (compared with the first version). There are some new interesting features for professionals (not for my personal usage). If you don’t know it yet, it’s a good alternative to Google Analytics and you should try it.

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I’ve updated DeleteHistory extension to : Add Brazilian Portuguese language Fix minor bug on reporting array You can easily install the new version with Git as described in the official Mediawiki webpage. Hope you’ll enjoy this update

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I recently needed to set a website in maintenance and wanted to do it as quickly as possible with any restart of Nginx. The idea is to add a maintenance.html page at the root of your web folder and then the maintenance page is automatically taken into account. To do it, simply follow the link (in french).

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To be able to monitor the PHP-FPM service with connections, queue information, process… you’ll need to set the status page. This will give you something like this : pool: www process manager: dynamic start time: 18/Dec/2013:19:00:41 +0100 start since: 52972 accepted conn: 5268 listen queue: 0 max listen queue: 0 listen queue len: 0 idle processes: 3 active processes: 1 total processes: 4 max active processes: 4 max children reached: 0 Those informations are important to correctly tune the PHP-FPM service.

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In those time, security is more and more important. Some vulnerabilities have been discovered and security on your SSL should be added. In fact you need to restrict the possibilities to your SSL server to avoid SSL breaks. I’ve updated my documentation to add SSL Resumption and authorized ciphers algorithms. Then you can check your SSL server security here : https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/index.html. I hope this will help you.

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Once again, I’ve upgraded my wiki (wiki.deimos.fr) and it was really easy with git. We could see some new minor design changes like “<pre>” banners or the login page. Other interesting features are appearing like load time informations for each page edition or embedding Vector theme in the Core. A new extension manager is used called Composer and will try to look at it’s benefits shortly. Once again, thanks Mediawiki !

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