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Tue, 14 May 2013
/Coding/php:
Geolocation with PHP
You will probably want:
apt-get install php5-geoip geoip-database
Then a command-line script is this easy:
<![CDATA[
<?php
// if (geoip_db_avail(GEOIP_COUNTRY_EDITION))
// print geoip_database_info(GEOIP_COUNTRY_EDITION);
$country = geoip_country_code_by_name('any-ip-address');
switch ($country) {
case 'US':
echo "100";
break;
case 'CN':
echo "200";
break;
case 'HK':
echo "300";
break;
}
?>
]]>
And you might want to do something like this for a bit of web code:
<![CDATA[
<?php
$clientIP = getenv("REMOTE_ADDR");
echo 'Client IP = ' . $clientIP . '<br>';
$country = geoip_country_code_by_name($clientIP);
echo $country . ' price = ';
switch ($country) {
case 'DE':
echo "500";
break;
case 'IL':
echo "400";
break;
case 'US':
echo "100";
break;
case 'CN':
echo "200";
break;
case 'HK':
echo "300";
break;
}
?>
]]>
If the geoip database provided by the geoip-database package is too old (three years already
in Ubuntu Lucid, for example!) then remove it and download the database manually:
wget http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCountry/GeoIP.dat.gz
Unzip it, and then add this line to /etc/php5/conf.d/geoip.ini:
geoip.custom_directory = /path/to/directory/containing/GeoIP.dat/
posted at: 09:55 | path: /Coding/php | permanent link to this entry
Sat, 11 May 2013
/Admin/Apache/performance:
Apache/PHP Modules to Increase Performance
Note that one can monitor progress with these changes using Google's analysis page at https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights
mod_expires:
One of the cheapest things you can do server-side is leverage browser
caching with mod_expires[1]. Apparently[2], even if a file is already in the
browser cache, the browser will still query the server on every hit to see if
the file has changed. No, the file is not transferred if it has not changed,
but yes, there is still a demand made of the server. Unless you turn on
mod_expires, which tells the browser in advance how long the file is good for.
And thereafter, until the file expires, the browser will not bother the server
to check if it has changed. Other then turning it on, there is little to
configure with mod_expires except possibly to specify the expiry times in your
VirtualHost or in global config file in the conf.d directory, for example:
ExpiresActive on
ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 hour"
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 1 week"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access 1 week"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access 1 week"
ExpiresByType image/png "access 1 week"
ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 week"
ExpiresByType application/pdf "access 1 week"
ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access 1 week"
Caching: mod_cache / mod_disk_cache:
Here my reading[4] would seem to indicate that if the server is not proxying, ie.
all content is already in the local file system, the kernel can be expected to do
a fine job of memory-caching of files without any need for help from Apache. So in
the absence of proxying, I have NOT turned on mod_mem_cache, just mod_disk_cache[3].
Debian/Ubuntu, as usual, comes fitted with sane defaults which include turning on
the htcacheclean[5] daemon to prune cache content. The only configuration required
is, again, to turn on caching for specific VirtualHosts by adding:
CacheEnable disk /
PHP Opcode Caching: APC:
There are three commonly mentioned possibilities for PHP opcode caching:
eAccelerator, APC[6], and XCache. I do not see much to choose from between them
performance-wise, but APC seems to be a very native PHP project, so I will go
with that:
apt-get install php-apc
The first thing you will want to do is copy apc.php into some web root and have
a look. There, apparently the most important thing to check[7] is "Cache full count"
which you want to keep pretty close to zero. To get there, I increased my cache
size in /etc/php5/conf.d/apc.ini to:
apc.shm_size=50
Google Page Speed Module:
Get and install your preferred version of the module from [8], ie.
wget https://dl-ssl.google.com/dl/linux/direct/mod-pagespeed-stable_current_amd64.deb
dpkg -i mod-pagespeed-stable_current_amd64.deb
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
[1] https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_expires.html
[2] http://bytes.com/topic/apache/insights/740981-advanced-caching-mod_expires
[3] https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_cache.html
[4] https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/caching.html
[5] https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/htcacheclean.html
[6] http://php.net/apc
[7] http://php.net/manual/en/apc.configuration.php
[8] https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/mod_pagespeed/download
posted at: 05:28 | path: /Admin/Apache/performance | permanent link to this entry
