If you are a web server administrator and your users are creating CGI services that are chewing up your server’s CPU, memory, or tasks, you have a powerful tool to deal with it in OpenLiteSpeed: cgroups. “cgroup” is short for “control group”. cgroups is a…
The Master Switch OpenLiteSpeed’s default Gzip and Brotli Compression settings should be appropriate for most situations. The server level Enable Compression setting is a master switch, and is enabled by default. If you set it to No, it will disable compression server-wide, overriding all virtual-host-level…
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User Authentication by Site or Subdirectory Authentication is the process of confirming a user’s identity, and it provides a way to ensure that only legitimate users create content on your site. Authentication is set up through OpenLiteSpeed’s WebAdmin Console and may be applied to the…
What is bubblewrap Bubblewrap is a lightweight sandbox application developed from Flatpak with a small installation footprint and minimal resource requirements. See their wiki for details. It has been integrated into OpenLiteSpeed. Installing bubblewrap You must install bubblewrap first to use it with OpenLiteSpeed. NOTE:…
How Can I Increase the Operating System File Descriptor Limit? A Too many open files error happens when a process needs to open more files than the operating system allows. This number is controlled by the maximum number of file descriptors the process has. If…
You can test the file upload function using the OpenLiteSpeed default example installation test page at http://yourip:8088, where you may encounter an ERROR — uploadProgress module not enabled? error, like this: uploadprogress is an OLS module which is included in /usr/local/lsws/modules/uploadprogress.so, but it needs to…
General rules #if not state otherwise , in this configuration example , 0 means disable or OFF and 1 means enable or ON. #if you are manually editing the configuration file. #please note that all the directives and values are case sensitive. #and certain directives…
You can customize OpenLiteSpeed Virtual Host configuration in DirectAdmin. Despite the misleading name, Custom HTTPd Configurations on the DA Console may be used to add, modify, or edit an OLS virtual host configuration, when OLS is running. The customized changes you make will not be…
By default, OpenLiteSpeed will have the Auto Index function disabled. Auto Index can be enabled at the server level, vhost level & context level, and each sub-level will override a parent-level setting. E.g. the context-level setting will override the vhost-level setting. This can be done…