Setting Up Custom Headers In some circumstance a user may need to set up a custom header, such as a Cache-Control header or an Expire header. In this guide, we will set up custom headers over a JavaScript and CSS file, as an example. Step…
Learn how to enable CageFS for OpenLiteSpeed from the WebAdmin Console in two easy steps. Also learn how to verify that CageFS is working.
You can create a custom error page and set up OpenLiteSpeed to display it for visitors who encounter errors (such as 404). This is how. Create Custom Error Page Create a custom error page and visit the URL to make sure it works. Configure OpenLiteSpeed…
CGroups in OpenLiteSpeed 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”.…
Running Ruby Apps with LSAPI In order to maximize the performance of a Rails application, we (LiteSpeed Technologies) developed our own Ruby interface module using our LiteSpeed APIprotocol, also known as LSAPI. LSAPI is a highly optimized IPC protocol between OpenLiteSpeed web server and a standalone process…
Node.js Apps with OpenLiteSpeed Node.js is a platform that generally runs as a separate web server. OpenLiteSpeed Web Server can be configured to proxy traffic to Node.js so that users can run Node.js applications (like Ghost) on their sites. This wiki will go over how…
Python WSGI Apps with LSAPI LiteSpeed SAPI is the easiest and fastest way to run web applications with OpenLiteSpeed Web Server. OpenLiteSpeed supports LSAPI for Python applications through WSGI. WSGI (Web Server Gateway Interface) is a low-level interface between web servers and web applications. It…
Enabling GeoLocation Geolocation enables developers to enhance the user experience. Content and advertising may be customized for a specific user’s country, showing pages more relevant to the location of the user. Admins can further enhance a site’s security by blocking a client based on country. …
Use OpenLiteSpeed as Load Balancer This wiki will show you how to set up OpenLiteSpeed as a load balancer. This example uses three servers: backend1.litespeedtech.com backend2.litespeedtech.com balancer.litespeedtech.com backend1 and backend2 will act as back-end nodes, and balancer will act as a front-end load balancer. Verify Two Back-End Nodes are Working…
Set up Websocket Proxy In this article we will explain how to set up a WebSocket proxy to a WebSocket backend. With a WebSocket proxy, OpenLiteSpeed will forward traffic with the WebSocket upgrade request to the WebSocket backend specified in the WebSocket proxy. Traffic without…