SuiteCRM is a popular Open Source CRM platform. It uses PHP at its core for backend (server side) tasks. Given the flexibility of Apache and Nginx as web servers, and the number of ways PHP can be configured, it’s easy to run into trouble, as …
Redmine, Ruby, Passenger-Phusion, and Nginx makes for an extremely confusing situation with dependencies, installation “instructions”, and “mismatching” package versions. Redmine wants Ruby x, your Linux distribution has Ruby y, Passenger-Phusion only works with Ruby z, and you quite often end up in a loop somewhere. …
While trying to configure some internal URL re-writing in nginx for a WordPress site, I ran across an annoying issue: Regardless of my re-writing efforts, WordPress would issue a re-direct (301) header (?!) This wouldn’t have been such a big deal if I didn’t want …
There are many posts about nginx, re-directs, PHP, and WordPress. There are somewhat fewer posts that talk about (internal) re-writes, where the request by the web browser is mangled to be served by another resource than the one requested. For example, I may want a …