alexwilliams

Member since 01/01/2007

Name: Alex Williams

Location: Montreal, QC, Canada

I am a Senior System Administrator of Advanced Solutions for a large web hosting company with multiple data centers. I don't code for websites anymore, but I still write scripts and optimize config files for advanced server clusters running various software (usually Open Source).

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Apache HAProxy URL Rewriting with query strings (ugly URLs)

This line can be added to 'backend', 'frontend', 'listen' directives in the HAProxy config. It will redirect all requests for /books/mysql to /books.php?title=mysql

0 1630 posted 15 years ago by alexwilliams

Apache HAProxy URL Rewriting

In this example: *rewrite urls from domain.com to www.domain.com* This is somewhat documented elsewhere, but not very well, so here's an example on how to perform simple URL rewriting with HAProxy (instead of using mod_rewrite with apache)....

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Other Haproxy load-balanced web cluster with different backends through acl's

How to send load-balanced requests to a web cluster and split the requests to different server pools based on specific ACL rules. This configuration sends files ending with .php to a pool of "dynamic" web servers (running Apache). It sends all...

0 777 posted 15 years ago by alexwilliams

Ruby Formatting a date with or without the time

1 1113 posted 18 years ago by alexwilliams

SQL HABTM relationship MySQL tables for use in Rails

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JavaScript JavaScript automagically hide and show an HTML tag (DIV, P, whatever)

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CSS Center HTML content horizontally using CSS

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PHP Load a PHP Class automatically upon instantiation (PHP5)

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Ruby Clone dev DB schema to test DB in Rails

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PHP PHP: Connecting Flash to a Database (remoting)

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0 859 posted 18 years ago by alexwilliams