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Apache, PHP-FPM, chroot jails, MediaWiki, MySQL, and so on

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 12:12

These are some notes on configuring Apache httpd to run large PHP applications via PHP-FPM in separate chroot jails. I recently had occasion to do that, and I had to find bits and pieces of information about it in many different places around the Net, so I'm compiling these notes both for my own future use and for anyone who's contemplating a similar project. There are a number of subtle details needed to do things like get TeX working (needed for MediaWiki math), configure process-pool policy, and so on. I'm not going to go into much detail on why someone would want to do this, nor background systems administration concepts like "What is a chroot jail?".


Friday 26 January 2018, 17:07




Installing Slackware on a Dell Inspiron i3162-2040

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 12:52


Removing things from Firefox's location bar NO REALLY

Sunday 21 July 2013, 06:40



Disabling Ctrl-Shift-Underscore font resize in Konsole

Saturday 23 October 2010, 10:16



Fixing the JED dealbreakers

Saturday 4 September 2010, 18:45



The whiteboard salesman

Monday 5 November 2001, 18:57

I do not fully understand how the whiteboard salesman became what he was. It's one of those jobs, like laboratory technician or the actuarial profession, that little kids never want to be when they grow up. I don't mean that it's low status, because kids don't care about that. Who of us doesn't remember a kindly garbage collector from our formative years, which of us never wanted to do that? But the whiteboard salesman's job was just not visibly important. If he ever told anyone why he chose the career he did, then that person never told me.

How much does a sheet of paper weigh?

Monday 29 March 2010, 15:25


Letter names

Wednesday 31 March 2010, 15:20
